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  • yopmail one way emails

    Avoid Spam with One-Use-Emails

    This topic has been covered before in my blog but I tend to take a look at older interesting topics from time to time and update them to reflect the changes tha

  • Top 10 Free Retro Games for your PC

    I started my gaming "career" on an Atari 2600 system with stunning games like River Raid and Pitfall, bought a C-64 later, then an Amiga and finally a PC.

  • Songbird the ultimate Media Player ?

    Songbird is a relatively new open source media player that is build from Mozilla and aims to revolutionize the media player market the same way firefox did to t

  • System Safety Monitor 2

    System Safety Monitor 2 is available in a free version from the developers website.

  • Google Image Wallpaper Application

    I found a pretty small and useful open source application that pulls images from google images in a given interval and displays them as the wallpaper on the pc

  • Star Wars Stormtrooper Armor

    Ever wondered where those guys in stormtrooper armor got their suits from ? Look no further, the Shepperton Design Studio is selling a complete Stormtropper arm

  • The Desktop of the Future

    This is a video from the dynamic graphics project at the University of Toronto named: Keeping it Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the

  • One Chip to track them down

    What is wrong with those movie and music companies ? Why the heck are they increasing the pressure on people who are actually buying their overpriced items inst

  • New Nintendo Wii Launch Details

    Nintendo already held two of the three press conferences about the upcoming Wii launch in Japan, America and Europe.

  • How to get a product key for Vista RC1

    Beta and release candidate versions of Windows Vista, Microsofts latest operating system, can be download from the official Microsoft Vista website but getting

  • virustotal

    Free Online Security Scan Websites

    Many sites offer to scan your computer for viruses online which should be seen as a last resort because this method has advantages but also disadvantages.

  • Free Geometry Wars Clones

    It all began with Asteroids, navigating a small spaceship through space, avoiding and destryoing asteroids that flew by on its way.

  • x-mouse gizmo

    Copy Paste with middle mouse button

    I received an email some days ago from a reader who would like to know if there was a program for Microsoft windows that would replicate the middle mouse functi

  • my computer taskbar

    How to add My Computer to the Task Bar

    This little tweak is really helpfull if you happen to have many windows open and would like to access a hard drive on your computer quickly.

  • amazon instant video

    Amazon Unbox and its absurd restrictions

    Amazon Unbox, the new video download service provided by Amazon, went live yesterday offering users a free and easy way to download and view videos on their com

  • PS3 delayed in Europe

    I suppose you already heard the news that Sonys new Ubermachine Playstation 3 will not have a worldwide launch because of production problems.

  • juice podcast receiver

    Juice a Podcast Receiver

    Many people are using RSS feeds and feel acustomed to them but shy away from podcasts.

  • purrint print screenshot to file

    Print key to file or printer

    If you want to make a screenshot by using the print key on your keyboard you have to paste the copied screen to an image manipulation program like gimp and save

  • manage addons

    Stealth Web Page Recorder

    Internet Explorer users beware: Stealth Web Page Recorder is a little add on for internet explorer that records every visited webpage including every action on

  • Windows Vista RC1 available

    Despite the latest rumors of postponing the released of the release candidate of Microsofts upcoming Windows Vista operating system a download link for the rele

  • Download Random Images with SeqDownload

    Many websites post random images every time their page is reloaded, webcams come to my mind as well that load a new image once every few minutes.

  • puretext

    Copy text without formatting

    I sometimes quote websites and do a normal copy paste job to copy the website content to the editor of my blog or into a word processor.

  • How to create a data safe

    Would you prefer that important data like information about yourself, account numbers, personal documents and the like are accessible all the time from everyone

  • The perfect multimedia device

    Do you like watching movies on your computer monitor or do you prefer to watch them on your television ? I think most people who answer this question prefer to