For Your PC
Talk To Xbox Live Buddies From Your PC
XBList is a must-have for all Xbox gamers. It sits on your PC and keeps track of all your Xbox Live buddies like an IM client, and it generates alerts when they come online. It also has gamercard integration so you can see exactly when they last played and what they’ve achieved. Ideal [...]
23Nov2006 | Tony Williams | 1 comment | Continued
Essential Guide To Building A PC
Although building a PC will probably take more than 5 minutes, reading this Tom’s Hardware guide is essential if you are planning on just upgrading e.g. your graphics or sound card.
If you haven’t already built a PC, I’d thoroughly recommend it. Not only is it fun, but you will save tonnes of cash and [...]
Download Free Music - Legally!
Nothing feels better than getting something for free. Well, now you can download free music legally from The Internet Archive.
This collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of ‘virtual record labels’.
Install FaviconizeTab And Freeup Firefox Space
I’m obsessed with keeping my desktop and my browser nice and tidy so I love plugins like FaviconizeTab, which reduces the width of specified Firefox tabs to only its favicon to save space in the tab bar.
For sites where you only need to see the favicon to know what it is, then set those tabs [...]
Test Your Broadband Speed And Optimize Your Internet Connection In 5 Simple Steps
You can always have more speed, right? Even with today’s super-fast broadband connections you can still make pages load even faster by making some quick simple changes to your PC.
1. Test Your Current Speed
The first thing you need to do is test your current broadband speed. The best way I’ve found of doing this is [...]
Great XP Freeware For Your PC
Martin from gHacks has put together a great list of cool Freeware applications for your PC, that will keep it running nice and smoothly.
I always start with security related tools which is IMHO the best approach. Fix the security concerns and concentrate on everything else afterwards. I start with AntiVir which is a great free [...]
Top 10 Greasemonkey Scripts For Google Products - Gmail, Search, Reader And More
For those of who don’t know what Greasemonkey is, it’s a Firefox extension that lets you change the look and feel of many popular pages. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a web page’s style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of [...]
17Nov2006 | Tony Williams | 4 comments | Continued
Trying To Kill 5 Mins? Use StumbleUpon
if you’re trying to kill 5 mins online and you’re bored of watching mindless YouTube videos, then maybe you should try StumbleUpon, a free browser plug-in that’s like a Web-concierge version of del.icio.us.After installing the plug-in, which adds a toolbar to your browser, you choose one or more topics of interest: astronomy, politics, television, and [...]
16Nov2006 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
Monster Free File Host List
gHacks has produced a massive list of all the places that offer free hosting. The list is split into four sections. The first two sections contain lists of free general file hosts that accept files to be uploaded and downloaded to their service. Section one lists hosts that require no registration while section [...]
15Nov2006 | Tony Williams | 3 comments | Continued
Create Automatic iTunes Playlists Using The Filter
The Filter is a great iTunes plugin that automatically creates playlists when you select a few songs and click on the big black “F” button. So, rather than randomly browsing through your music collection The Filter can build playlists in seconds to fit your mood.The Filter is particularly great if you have a big music [...]
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