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Monitor Processes on Your System with WinPatrolToGo

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Sourojit.

We all know about the Task Manager utility provided by Windows, but what if you wanted to do more with it besides viewing the running applications? Here you will get a simple and complete answer.

WinPatrolToGo is a free and portable utility that can help you find all information you want about your computer whenever and wherever you want. Let’s dive right into all of the options WinPatrolToGo has to offer.

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Free Remote Desktop Sharing with CrossLoop

Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Prasanth Chandra.

When I say “desktop sharing program”, it surely leaves an impression of a complex program which only highly skilled computer professionals can handle. CrossLoop is a free remote desktop sharing program that is amazingly simple, so no matter how much computer knowledge you have, this program will be easy to use.

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Snippage Turns Any Site Into a Desktop Widget

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Andrew Incarnadine.

Snippage is a desktop widget application designed on the Adobe Air platform that “snips” any portion of a website and places the clipping as an unobtrusive application on your desktop. Snippage quickly and easily enables access to your favorite information on the web, from news and weather to email and to-do lists.

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Record Streaming Audio with PCWin Speaker Record

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Aminul Islam Sajib.

Have you ever wanted to record something that you’re listening to online? Maybe you’re streaming some music or a podcast online, and you don’t have any way to download it.  You could find a mic and put it in front of your speaker and press record, but that sound quality is going to be terrible.

PCWin Speaker Record is a better solution than the mic one I just mentioned.  It’s a free program that lets you record any music, voice, sound (or noise) you hear from your speakers.

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Three Android Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity

Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by Chris.Smith.

With the recent purchase of my new Motorola DROID and the recent onslaught of crazy school assignments, work projects, and personal obligations, I have begun to figure out the greatest work-flow while out and about with my phone. The best part is that these apps work with any Android handset.

Using these apps has helped me get more done, and I think that it will help you as well.

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Temporarily Change Default Programs with Coffee

Posted on 14. Jan, 2010 by Alae Hatoum.

There was a time in the past when there were only a few choices in software for the different tasks you completed everyday.  Now, we have so much selection coming from the rise of free and open source software that it can be hard to choose which program to use for each task.

One of the problems when trying a new piece of software is that you have to change the default settings for the type of file you want to use with that software.  Well, that or you have to go through a tree of menus to choose which software to use.  Coffee will help you solve that problem.

No…not that coffee.

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Keeping Me Safe for Three Years: Comodo Firewall

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

This is the second post in the series of Keeping Me Safe for Three Years posts. In the last post, I talked about the award winning Avira Antivirus which according to me is the best antivirus in overall performance and usability. You can see the post on Avira here.

The second post in this series covers Comodo Firewall and how it rounds out my dynamic duo of security programs.

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Top 30+ Adobe Air Applications

Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by UzEE.

Adobe AIR has become one of the most popular desktop publishing platform for interactive applications. AIR builds on the rock solid technology innovations like Adobe Flash and Flex and blends them with new functionality to make them desktop friendly.

There are thousands of applications that are based on the Adobe AIR platform ranging from desktop clients to popular web services to productivity applications, stock tickers and even games. Here’s a list of over 30 top applications that are running on top of Adobe AIR.

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