Tech News on Sunday, November 08, 2009
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Florida Hospital Dials Up iPhones For Nurses
iPhones are helping a Sarasota hospital connect its nursing staff via text messaging, and soon, VoIP telephony.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST
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Full Nelson: A Web Presence Needs Sizzle, My Nizzle
Customer engagement is the future of the Web. For the bold and the willing, successful ideas are there for the trying -- just don't try too hard.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 06:31:00 EST
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Is Antivirus Software Dead?
Always-on Internet connectivity is keeping malware concerns alive and well. We examine whether antivirus software is up to the task, or whether it's a security solution of the past.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:00:00 EST
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Practical Analysis: The Fastest-Growing Security Threat
SQL injections, more than any other exploit, can land your company in trouble. So why aren't you worried about them?
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST
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Virtual Desktops Are For Real
We tested nine products that will transform how IT provides end user PCs.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST
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InformationWeek Analytics Research: Federated Search
Organizations are slow to adopt enterprise search systems that empower users to find data on the desktop, the network, and the Internet. The challenges are more operational than technical and the payoff is efficiency.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST
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CIO Profiles: Christopher Rence, Chief Information And Business Transformation Officer Of FICO
Our national technology policy must call for the widespread adoption of analytics as a core tool for making sound decisions, Rence recommends.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST
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InformationWeek Analytics Research: Federated Search
Organizations are slow to adopt enterprise search systems that empower users to find data on the desktop, the network, and the Internet. The challenges are more operational than technical and the payoff is efficiency.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST
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Securing The Cyber Supply Chain
Many parties touch your organization's systems and software, potentially exposing them to malware, breaches, or worse. A new end-to-end approach is required to minimize the risks.Many parties touch your organization's systems and software, potentially exposing them to malware and breaches. An end-to-end approach is needed to minimize the risks.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST
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SaaS Provider Oco Unveils Customer, Sales Analytics
Oco's new product integrates data from various sources into a single data warehouse to provide a 'comprehensive view of the customer' through interactive scorecards, what-if dashboards, multi-dimensional reports, and adhoc analysis tools.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:34:00 EST
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Skype Founders Settle With eBay
The deal closes a litigious chapter surrounding the VoIP firm.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST
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Verizon To Raise Termination Fees
Early-termination fees for Verizon Wireless smartphones and other mobile devices will double this month.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:42:00 EST
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Google Dashboard Enhances Privacy Control
To help users understand the privacy implications of its services, Google has created a unified view of the data associated with Google Accounts.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:50:00 EST
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FCC To Examine Telephone Access Fees
Some carriers have complained that AT&T and Verizon charge competitors too much to backhaul their customers' voice and data traffic.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:47:00 EST
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Craigslist Founder To Advise Veteran Affairs
The Department of Veterans Affairs has invited Craig Newmark to join a panel to review suggestions for fixing its claims processing.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:07:00 EST
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Aster Data Upgrades MPP Analytic Database
The new version of the massively parallel processing analytic database includes a 'data-application server' that acts as a host for application processing, while also managing workloads, security and fault isolation.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST
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IBM Opens Business Analytics Center
Bangalore facility will employ experts skilled in applying database and statistical tools to customers' information challenges.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:58:00 EST
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Mitchell Acquires Scene Genesis
Scene Genesis' offerings include SceneExchange, a Web-based marketplace that encourages open communication among all parties involved in the repair process; and SceneAccess, an end-to-end Web-based claims handling solution.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:29:46 EST
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Microsoft Plans Fixes For 15 Security Flaws
November's patch day is about half the size of October's massive fix.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:24:00 EST
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T-Mobile Sees Dip In Subscribers
The wireless carrier is introducing new rate plans and multiple Android-powered phones to mount a turnaround.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:24:00 EST
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AT&T Completes Centennial Acquisition
The deal gives AT&T nearly one million new subscribers and enhances its wireless assets.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:04:00 EST
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Broadband Goals Proposed In Minnesota
A report recommends high-speed broadband with download speeds of up to 20 Mbps by 2015, and could be a model for a nationwide broadband plan.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:45:00 EST
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AMA, AARP Endorse House Healthcare Plan
Powerful doctor and senior lobbying organizations Thursday endorsed the U.S. House healthcare reform bill.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:38:01 EST
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U.S. Unemployment Soars to 10.2 Percent
The U.S. unemployment rate jumped 0.4 percentage points to 10.2 percent in October, far higher than expectations, the Department of Labor said Friday.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:27:45 EST
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HP Offers Data Center Scalability
An elastic data center, based on virtualized resource pools, can scale in response to unpredictable business conditions, HP says.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:40:00 EST
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Al Gore: It's not just about the planet
In a talk promoting his book, Al Gore looks for fixes beyond renewable energy and draws the link between environment, energy, and the economy.
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:50:00 PST
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First iPhone, now Droid. Who needs Windows?
Windows Mobile is losing the last glimmers of its mojo as phones based on the Android 2.0 operating system push the buzz meter needle into the red zone.
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:45:00 PST
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Judge halts BlueBeat's sale of Beatles tunes
Temporary restraining order finds BlueBeat's arguments "lacking in clarity" and sees the threat of irreparable harm to the copyright holders.
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:51:00 PST
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How much would you pay to see your future?
Three years after the human genome was sequenced at a price tag of $3 billion, Complete Genomics does it for just $4,400 in material cost.
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:38:03 PST
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Apple said to be working on 'world-mode' iPhone
The AppleInsider blog says it's gotten wind of a "hybrid iPhone," due in the third quarter of 2010, that would work on both GSM and CDMA (hear that, Verizon?).
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:42:00 PST
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Bird drops baguette, halts Collider
Testing on the Large Hadron Collider is halted after a bird drops a chunk of carbohydrates into the machine, causing a power outage.
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:59:00 PST
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Want a Droid on the cheap? Let's start a club!
Right now, you have to buy one and sign a two-year contract. Is a Gadget of the Month Club the answer? Or should phone companies be more like clothes stores?
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:58:00 PST
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Is Verizon's new early-termination fee anti-consumer?
That $350 fee doubles the current one, but Verizon insists it's justified because of the higher prices of today's phones.
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:04:22 PST
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Video: A new workout for the Wii
Ubisoft's upcoming fitness game, YourShape, promises an experience a step up from Wii Fit. In the process, can it help revitalize the Nintendo console?
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:56:00 PST
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Popular iPhone movie app flops on BlackBerry
Flixster's Movies app just isn't up to snuff on BlackBerry.
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:57:00 PST
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Mobile: Still waiting to see what sticks
As businesses try to capitalize on the growing mobile software market, open source can offer a way to encourage adoption and build products in the image of the prospective buyer.
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:53:42 PST
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Reporters' Roundtable 9: The business of app stores
The App Store business model, nearly perfected by Apple, has changed the way software is made, sold, distributed, and priced. Join Rafe Needleman in discussion with CNET's Maggie Reardon and GigaOm's Sebastian Rupley.
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:15:00 PST
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EMI to offer instant concert recordings
An initiative called Abbey Road Live will enable concert attendees to buy CDs, DVDs, or flash cards with recordings of the show they just heard.
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:21:00 PST
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Sesame Street, Droid get Google's love
The search king has given much of its front page love this week to honor Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, but it did save some space to tout the new Droid smartphone.
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:20:00 PST
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Microsoft launching health tech video show
Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu is among the guests in the first episode of the Web video show, which debuts next week.
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:59:00 PST
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Astronauts prep for not-so-close encounter with space debris
Space debris had prompted NASA to make plans for the station crew to seek shelter aboard their Soyuz lifeboats, but additional analysis now shows the junk poses no threat to the lab.
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:42:00 PST
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Going rogue? Palin bans gadgets, reporters from speech
The former Alaska governor joins a tradition of controversial politicians stoking up more press criticism by attempting to avoid it in the first place.
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:40:00 PST
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What integrated compute stacks mean for storage professionals
EMC and Cisco have Vblocks. HP has Consolidated Infrastructure. Is the world changing for enterprise IT storage professionals?
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:17:06 PST
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Skype, eBay move forward
eBay settles with Skype founders, and will sell its controlling interest in the Internet telephony company.
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:51:00 PST
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Sorry, kids: No social networking on the Xbox 360
Those children under 18 who are members of Xbox Live won't be able to access Facebook, Twitter, or Last.fm when the Xbox Live update is released later this year.
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:38:30 PST
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How low can online scammers go?
In the world of the cynical online phishing scam ploy, is pretending to be a Marine stationed in Afghanistan a new low?
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:15:21 PST
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dbmapper Release 12 (Apache License 2.0)
Map your database tables to JPA and JAXB objects
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:08:01 GMT
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j-Sprite 1.0 (BSD License)
Java based sprite and css generator
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:05:01 GMT
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Aerocut 3.0.1 (Trial)
Easily remove image backgrounds and highlight an object in a very short time
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:03:01 GMT
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FlashRip 1.11 (Shareware)
Rip streaming video and audio from video sites, convert to iphone, ipod, psp
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:55:01 GMT
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OakDoc XPS to PDF Converter 2.1 (Demo)
Wizard for creating or manipulating Adobe Acrobat PDF format
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:52:01 GMT
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VistaSwitcher 1.0.7 Beta (Freeware)
Speed Up Windows Alt-Tab
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:51:09 GMT
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Gemini Mail 2.29m (Trial)
An advanced mail client with powerful filtering capabilities.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:50:01 GMT
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Zilla JPG To PDF Converter 2.0 (Freeware)
Convert most types of image files to a PDF document
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:46:01 GMT
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Video Download Toolbar 1.6.0.0 (Ad-supported)
Download videos from all FLV H264 MP4 video sites.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:44:02 GMT
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ePolicy 1.3 Release 2 Build 31 (Trial)
Easily broadcast policies to users with the help of this tool
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:37:01 GMT
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SSRSBuddy Beta 1 (GPL)
A report deployment tool
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:34:01 GMT
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Best Folder Encryptor 16.08 (Shareware)
Five folder encryption methods that are designed to meet user's different requirements
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:32:01 GMT
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DevPlanner 2.3.55 (Trial)
Right estimations trainer, can improve results and prepare weekly reports
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:29:01 GMT
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BlissRADIUS 1.21.2 (Demo)
An application that can help those with administrative knowledge.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:26:01 GMT
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Sound Capture To WMA 1.0.0.8 (Demo)
It captures any audio from sound card with WMA format.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:24:02 GMT
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AIM 7.1.2.18 Beta 1 / 7.0.13.4 (Ad-supported)
A free online service providing the easiest real-time communication with family, friends and co-workers
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:23:11 GMT
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Zoom Player Premium 7.00 RC2 / 6.00 Final (Shareware)
An application that allows users to play various types of media files
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:13:20 GMT
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Excel Sheets Separator 2009.11.3 (Trial)
Save Each Sheet As Separate Excel File
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:13:01 GMT
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Zoom Player Professional 7.00 RC2 / 6.00 Final (Shareware)
A robust Media and DVD Front-End Player
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:12:16 GMT
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Zoom Player Home MAX 7.00 RC2 / 6.0 (Freeware)
An easy to use player for your media.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:11:08 GMT
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LateNite (Freeware)
A truetype font with a neat look to it
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:11:01 GMT
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KSP 2009 2009 R4.1 0.4.100.342 (BSD License)
A useful media player utility for Windows
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:06:01 GMT
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WMP Tag Plus 1.1 (Freeware)
A Windows Media Player plug-in for reading and writing MPEG4, FLAC, Vorbis and WavPack tags.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:03:01 GMT
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MiniCoder 1.3.3.0 (GPL)
Making transcoding easier
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:59:01 GMT
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Larson (Freeware)
This is a TTF character with a transparent appearance
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:55:01 GMT
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Win7Zilla 2.1 (Trial)
Robust Tweaking, maintenance utility for Windows 7
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:52:01 GMT
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The Bat! Alpha 4 4.2.13.1 (Updater)
Latest Beta update for The Bat!
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:50:47 GMT
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FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 20091108 Rev3130 (GPL)
Great DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX movies, picture postprocessing
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:48:26 GMT
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Vit Registry Fix Free Edition 9.5.0.2 (Freeware)
Freeware program for fixing registry errors
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:46:56 GMT
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MIDI To WMA Converter 1.0.0.8 (Shareware)
Convert MIDI / MID / RMI file to WMA format.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:44:02 GMT
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SilverFast Ai Canon 6.6.1 R4
Combines a very intuitive user interface with sophisticated and professional scanner and image controls.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:55:02 GMT
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Xmas Mail Stationery 1.0.2
Extension for Apple Mail under Mac OS X.5 Leopard to get a stationery with a "xmas-sy" design.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:47:01 GMT
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Salling Media Sync 1.1.4 Build 220
A very simple to use tool for synchronizing playlists and so on.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:26:01 GMT
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PowerRenamer 3.1.3
Change names of selected items in Finder by searching and replacing strings
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:07:01 GMT
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crpcut 0.8.1
Free compartmented robust Posix C++ unit tester
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:44:02 GMT
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Bynaryo 0.1
Convert binary strings to ASCII or numbers
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:37:01 GMT
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Platinum UPnP 0.5.4.542
Free and open source C++ library that allows you to discover, control or implement UPnP devices
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:28:02 GMT
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AVISync 1.2
An utility to fix audio/video synchronization problems in DivX AVI files
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:06:01 GMT
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Awt Calculator 1.0
Free calculator for your Mac
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:55:01 GMT
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dvd::rip 0.98.10
A full featured DVD copy program written in Perl
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:43:02 GMT
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CloudVPN 1.99.8
Small and secure SSL-based mesh networking tool
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:20:01 GMT
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Windows Live Sync 14.0.8096.0903
Keep your latest files with you, no matter which computer you're using
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:12:01 GMT
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Mezcast 2.0
A nice widget that allows you to listen to techno music from the Dashboard.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:04:01 GMT
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rVM 0.0.20
Virtual machine written in Ruby that allows to include scripting capabilities to Ruby programs
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:46:01 GMT
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exestringz 0.2.3
Executable's strings lister and replacer
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:38:01 GMT
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TkYahtzee 1.2.4
Free dice game for your Mac
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:30:01 GMT
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x264Encoder 1.1.7
A free QuickTime compressor component
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:21:21 GMT
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AppDelete 3.0.1
An application for Macs that will delete the applications you choose and any associated items
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:19:24 GMT
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dmgutil 1.3
A command-line tool to configure, compress DMGs for distribution.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:19:01 GMT
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Delibar 1.1.2 Build 87
Menubar item for del.icio.us bookmarks.
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:09:01 GMT
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HealthNut 1.0.1 Build 826
Easily keep track of your daily nutrient intake
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:06:56 GMT
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snowLeopard
White themed and high quality folder and drive icon collection for your Mac
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:57:02 GMT
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R10BatchMail 1.8.4
A simple to use Bulk Email Sending application
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:55:21 GMT
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SyncTwoFolders 1.5.2
Mac application that will allow you to easily synchronize two folders
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:52:46 GMT
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Task Coach 0.76.0
Simple and easy-to-use open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:51:48 GMT
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Provider for Google Calendar for Thunderbird 0.5.5
A Thunderbird add-on that allows bidirectional access to Google Calendar
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:49:02 GMT
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Viewfinder 1.0.1
Easy Flickr image search and download
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:44:47 GMT
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TunesArt 0.7
Ideal companion for iTunes
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:41:09 GMT
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Yet Another Smooth Scrolling 2.0.25
A Firefox add-on that allows you to customize your scroll behavior
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:39:01 GMT
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iFlicks 1.1 Build 600 Beta / 1.0.8 Build 294
App that will allow you to import your video collection into iTunes
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:38:49 GMT
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