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New Google Chrome OS Beta Released

James — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:33:38 +0000

http://sites.google.com/site/chromeoslinux/

2009-10-21: New Chrome OS 0.4.223 beta is available now!

Chrome OS is a brand new free operating system built around the revolutionary Google Chrome browser.

The project aim is to provide a lightweight Linux distribution for the best web browsing experience.

Featured software in Chrome OS:

GNOME 2.24 desktop environment

Google Chrome 4.0.223 web browser

Google Picasa 2.7 photo manager New!

OpenOffice.org 3.0 office suite

GIMP 2.6 image editor

Flash Player 10.0 plugin

and much more!

Freeware downloader and installer.

James — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:08:57 +0000

http://ninite.com/ – At ninite you select the freeware applications that you want, nitnite bundles it and downloads them all for you.

Processor benchmarks.

James — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:36:49 +0000

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

50,000+ Systems Tested and 650+ CPU Models – Updated Daily

PassMark Software has delved into the thousands of benchmark results that PerformanceTest users have posted to its web site and produced five Intel vs AMD CPU charts to help compare the relative speeds of the different processors. Included in this list are CPUs designed for servers and workstations (Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors), desktop CPUs (Intel Core2 and AMD Phenom processors), in addition to mobile CPUs.

YouTube Comment Snob plugin.

James — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:32:06 +0000

YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox extension that filters out undesirable comments from YouTube comment threads. You can choose to have any of the following rules mark a comment for removal:

More than # spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension uses Firefox’s built-in spell checker.
All capital letters
No capital letters
Doesn’t start with a capital letter
Excessive punctuation (!!!! ????)
Excessive capitalization
Profanity

DVDFlick

James — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:35:37 +0000

[windows] Open source DVD authoring software. Take almost any video file and burn it to DVD.

http://www.dvdflick.net/index.php

ScreenCastle

James — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:26:28 +0000

Java / browser based screen capture; Record, Link to watch, embed, BBCode, Direct link, etc.

Uptime?

James — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:34:08 +0000

Ever wonder when you last shutdown or rebooted? Here’s how you can find the uptime for your Windows XP machine:

cmd -> systeminfo | find “Up Time”

Once upon an uptime I had a Novell server up for more than 375 days. Today I noticed that my PC has been up for 67.5 days.

VLC media player update.

James — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:14:35 +0000

If you have ever used VLC then head on over to their homepage and get the latest version. They’ve added a ton of features and cleaned it up a bit (it’s a lot more friendly feeling). I think it’s well worth updating: VLC media player

If you’ve never used it, you should. This player will play almost anything without the need for codecs. Also, and maybe more importantly, it can act as a server and client to stream and receive network streams.

This is THE best crossplatform media player. (Win, osX, linux, etc).

Revit Blog

James — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:53:12 +0000

http://do-u-revit.blogspot.com/

This will be a good repository for revit links. If you happen to find anything related to revit, please post it in the comments here.

Outlook autofill email addresses

James — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:33:42 +0000

This is a tool which I’ve used, forgotten about and had to search to find it again. So, I’m going to document it here in hope to never lose it again…

How can you export the email addresses that Outlook remembers ever though they aren’t in your address book? This information is in the nk2 file. Debunk2 is a tool which gives you the ability to export this email list: http://code.google.com/p/debunk2/.