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Handbrake , the insanely great multi-platform video transcoder - or "dvd ripper," if you're really being honest - just got its first update in almost a year. The biggest new change is 64-bit support, which means a 10% jump in encoding speed. According to our sister site, TUAW , Mac users ...
Software
You may be more focused on picking up holiday gifts for friends, loved ones, and co-workers right now, but maybe it's time to treat yourself. If you're a PC gamer, you need to check out Steam's THQ pack. It's loaded with excellent titles like Red Faction, Warhammer, and Company of Heroes - ...
Gaming
One thing about laptops that drives a lot of my customers nuts is the touchpad. If I had a nickel for every time someone brought a laptop in complaining that their mouse pointer suddenly jumped somewhere else on the screen and messed up their typing, I'd have at least $10.15.
Hey, I'm in a ...
Other
Believe it or not, Atari have just released a bunch of old games on their own website . These aren't clones, these aren't even 'loving interpretations' -- these are the real thing , remade by Atari themselves. This comes as part of a re-launch for the Atari website which includes an online ...
Gaming
Atari
Flash Games
Hot on the heels of the announcement that IE9 would use Direct2D to improve its rendering performance, Firefox have stated their intent to do the same -- and sooner! In a a tweet, Chris Blizzard, an employee of Mozilla, said that Firefox would include Direct2D support -- and he bet it would ...
Online
Firefox
Microsoft
Mozilla
We've all gotten a good look at the very, very early stages of Chrome OS . While there's been plenty of "meh" going around, truth is that it's really much, much too early to pass judgement. It's going to be about a year until we see something finished, after all, and Google has already said ...
Online
Chrome
AdSense
It seems the recent addition of Twitter , Facebook and Last.fm to the Xbox Live experience is proving to be a hit ! The jury's still out on whether Twitter has been such a huge success on the PS3 , but I'm sure Sony will release a statement soon to compete with Microsoft.
According to a ...
Online
Last.fm
Microsoft
Sony
There's little to add to my glowing review of the Livescribe Pulse smartpen I wrote for TUAW last year . This is one of those gadgets that you show people and it looks like magic. It kinda is magic, I think. But this year's model introduces an app store for the pen (plus some nifty paper ...
iPhone
App Store
Behance is one of my favorite sources of creative inspiration and productivity tips. Their Action Method is a neat way to keep track of your to-do items. I'm pretty sure most of their profits come from selling paper products, but there's also a web version of Action Method , and a new Action ...
iPhone
iPhone
Firefox's Awesome Bar is definitely a more powerful tool than it used to be. It's still got room for improvement and tweaking, though - and fortunately there are plenty of nifty add-ons available to do just that.
One worth checking out is Locationbar² . You can see one of the ...
Online
Firefox
Travel management site TripIt have launched their mobile companion application for Android, available for download free of charge from the Android Market.
The new application, which is usable with both Standard and Pro TripIt accounts, allows you to access your travel itinerary direct ...
Mobile
Android
iPhone
BlackBerry
There are some great little tweaks available in Google Labs for GMail, one of which is pictured above - ' Green Robot !'!
Like many of the labs additions (accessed by clicking the little green conical flask at the top of the GMail page), the beauty of Green Robot is in it's simplicity. ...
Online
Gmail
The Company of Myself is one of those games that you don't want to conclude. When it does end -- if you have what it takes to get there -- it leaves you feeling sad. Kinda empty. Like there's a gap in your soul that's exactly Company of Myself -shaped and there's nothing to fill it with.
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Other
With the aid of a tiny little program -- of the juicy, sub-100-kilobyte freeware variety -- you can get those cute little blinking-blue screens back onto your system tray in Windows 7 .
In yet another case of inspired naming, Network Activity Indicator for Windows lets you re-attach the ...
Software
Windows 7
Are you one of the many, many people who seem to be up in arms about Twitter's implementation of retweets? A neat little Greasemonkey script called Retweet Avatars might go a long way toward making you feel better about the new system. Instead of showing the original poster's icon, it shows ...
Online
Greasemonkey
Those of you that are fortunate enough to primarily surf the web on a desktop machine, you probably won't notice just how much of a resource hog web browsers can be. But if you use a laptop -- or any kind of portable really -- you have probably experienced the full ...
Online
Firefox
Laptops
Mozilla
If you're trying to get an extension gallery for your web browser off the ground, it's important reach out to developers. After all, they're the ones who will be creating the snazzy addons you plan to showcase. So it's not surprising to see the change which took place in the Chromium ...
Online
Chrome
Larry Page
"Wordoids", which are words that are made-up, but sound right. They follow the rules of phonetics, and if done properly, roll off the tongue. The need to have an online presence has increased the need for unique product and company names and has led to these wordoids. Yet, even with a made-up ...
Other
Seesmic have released their ' Seesmic Mobile ' Twitter client for Android and Blackberry on their respective application stores. Available for download free of charge, the clients are slick, feature packed and refreshingly free of advertisements.
The Android client (pictured above) has ...
Mobile
Seesmic
Android
BlackBerry
The SEVEN Beta setup is an interesting one.
As a company, Seven (enough capitalising already!) sell their excellent push e-mail products only via mobile operator channels, however their Beta program is an excellent way for users on unsupported carriers (that's likely you and I) to enjoy ...
