Any of you guys run a web server at home or have a host that allows you to edit .htaccess?
Here’s a nifty little thing that makes it easier for people who know next to nothing of htaccess to protect pages. It’s also for people who *could* do this by hand, but really could be doing something better than text editing .htaccess.
Theres a nice web utility that allows you to setup the basic password protection, error pages, redirects, etc. Nice and simple 
Check it out: .htaccess Editor
Heres some good backup software, each with its own strengths.
Hinx Backup Easy, is a small utility that lets you do local backups or FTP backuping, with schedules. Theres the option for incremental backups, and thats about it. Simple, and small Hinx Backup Easy
DocShield has a different niche. What happens if you’re working on a giant paper, and it just goes horribly wrong? DocShield scans marked folders for changed files and saves archived versions. Its like code versioning, but for allpurpose files. This also lets you backup your versions on an ftp server. DocShield
Finally…on a slightly different note, File Alert Monitor, does what any sane human being would be able to pull out of the program name. It works on networked drives too Check it out: File Alert Monitor
I’m just going to let this speak for itself.
Okay, i can’t keep my mouth shut.
I reccomend the following from PCWorlds list as particularly interesting and worthy of exploration.
#3 : The three AM one looks pretty cool. I haven’t been up till 3 to test it out, but it looks neat.
#4 : I remember reading about Gmail Paper. There may even be a FLB post on it.
#7. The Google Earth flight simulator. The first time I heard of it, i didn’t believe it. Surprisingly, Brian or Joe hadn’t heard of it either. So off to Google Earth I went . . . and there it was. No lie.
#8. Google calculator. One of the things i love about Google.
#12. The Picasa Bear. Just how many it will show is a mystery. . . but its a lot.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/142620-1/googles_top_17_easter_eggs_gags_and_hoaxes.html
This is a REALLY useless utility. This isn’t even like there’s a possible use for it, this program honestly, was made because it COULD be made.
IE Retitler does exactly what it says. It lets you retitle the screens of IE to whatever you want.
Funny…there aren’t any preferences, plugins, or help files. Really…all you can do with it is leave cute messages to yourself when you glance down at your taskbar or the IE bar. Have fun with it 
Check it out: Brenton Fletcher’s Portfolio
To be frank though, there are some pretty nice little apps in this portfolio. Have fun flipping through it and downloading a few
Indeed…sometimes, I have these bouts of insaneness and I open up task manager, and start killing memory hogging processes. This usually takes some time as I scroll through XP’s 60ish processes and Vista’s obscene 100 processes. Well…I shall do that no longer!
What you do with this little app is mark up system and critical processes, etc, that you want to keep. Press the big kill button and everything else goes poof!
However, what you really want to do before you do this, is know what you’re killing first. Because, honestly, for your own sanity, don’t kill processes you dont even know
First, figure out what all those nasty processes are, THEN do this. 
Check it out: EndItAll
Ben Heck has made another one-handed Xbox conroller. All the buttons are in easy-to-reach places, and the controller still manages to incorporate two joysticks.
Read more about it here :
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/19/ben-hecks-one-handed-xbox-360-controller-refined/
An interesting application for today…this little app starts applications at startup according to if your Caps Lock button is on or off.
I know, this sounds a bit weird and probably useless…but…think about this.
For example, most people, open up IE (GASP) or FF, outlook, etc, once their computer turns on. Its kinda like your default workspace. Well…what if some days, you honestly just want to check something real quick and don’t want everything popping up, while most days you want everything there?
Capster! Set it so all your daily programs run if caps lock isn’t on, and if caps lock IS on, nothing loads. That way, when you’re logging in, you can determine how much stuff you want to load when you login. It could come in nifty
Check it out: Capster
Ever wondered what the code to a computer virus looks like?
Neither have I. But this guy has taken the actual source code of common computer viruses and turned it into a visual image of each computer virus.
I’d like to know more about how he did it, but the article doesn’t say, it just includes some very cool pictures.
Computer Virus Visualization
No….it doesn’t remove all the noise that you hear while you’re trying to concentrate, although that would be REALLY nice.
This little program removes digital noise from photographs. This is really obvious when you’re either taking a photograph at high zoom (when camera starts digital extrapolating) or when you’re taking photos at night and you have a high ISO on. Its all the little red and yellow dots that appear over the image. This program learns as it fixes noise and removes it to provide a much cleaner image. Now…sadly, this thing is one of the few programs that is posted at flashladybug that…isn’t free 
However, you can clear up a few photos using the trial edition which is for 15 days, or buy the full version for 20 bucks. Still kind of sad that it isn’t free. I had expected the standard edition to be free and the profession ed to be paid…but such is not the case.
Check it out: Imagenomic
Here’s an interesting little program that I have found to be quite nice for the few days I’ve had it. Nubs allows you to use all 4 sides of your monitor as “taskbars.” When you drag a window to one of the sides, it makes a little “nub” on the side that looks like the taskbar minimized window. So, right now, I have firefox on the top of my screen, aim windows on my left, and the rest on the normal taskbar. This lets me organize a bit better, and I dont know, I seem to like it
Give it a shot, Nubs