Dear Apple, please stop it with the useless updates…

Is it just me, or is Apple starting to remind you more of the Real Player more and more? Or perhaps, maybe Adobe and the 10,000 unrelated updates it asks for?

This is one of those programs you just happen to stumble upon but you know you have to at least give it a shot.  Mario Paint Composer allows you to create your own Nintendo inspired tune using the old SNES Mario Paint-ish layout.  Even if you don’t have a musical skill in your entire body, [...]

When looking at your basic FTP file listing in a browser, it can be a ‘bit on the dull and boring side.  Why not spice that up with a custom user style?  If you have Stylish for Firefox installed – and pick up the “FTP pages were awful” style you could even make them look [...]

If you are looking for free software that makes creating an RSS feed as easy as filling in a few blanks inside of a program, then look no further than RSS Builder.  This simple program will make it easy to generate an RSS feed for your web site. 
It provides an easy to use [...]

Ok, maybe I am a little behind the times – or am very careful before I give Microsoft the fair shake. Whatever my reason was, I never tried Windows Live Writer till the other day. I figured it would be like every other blog updater I’ve seen out there. It would do [...]

I was searching for a way I could view media files recorded on my Vista machine (through Media Center) and found this beauty of a freeware program. The Windows Essentials Codec Pack gives you the an easy way to play just about any audio or video type in Windows Media Player.
The Windows Essentials Codec [...]

Want to see how popular you are on the Web? I recently found a pretty neat program that checks your popularity against some other web sites that you might be competing against for eyeballs out there on the Web. Link Popularity Check does an alright job and giving you the facts and figures [...]

I ran into a problem yesterday, because I got a .docx file e-mailed to me and I could not open it. Why? Well from what I could tell this seems to be one of Microsoft’s wacky file formats that you can only open using their products. Since I use OpenOffice.org as my [...]

WebRipper might be the best tool to use if you need to take pictures or media files from the web and save them to your own PC. The program is totally free and offers several filter options to allow you to control where, when and how the files are downloaded.
The downside is that [...]

Need a better way to capture the images on your desktop? Now anybody using Windows for more than five minutes can tell you that this is what the “Print Screen” button is for, right? Well true – that does get the job done but some of us need a little more. [...]