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Archive for September, 2009

Myna Is an Awesome Multi-Track Audio Editor for Anyone

Myna, a free online audio tool from the makers of reader favorite image editor Phoenix, lets pretty much anyone jump into recording, arranging, and mixing audio tracks for quickie soundtracks, or just for the fun of it.

Myna’s horizontal track-over-track layout should be familiar to users of audio tools like CoolEdit or FruityLoops, but it’s pretty easy to pick up on, too. Hit the Snap to Grid button, set your beats per minute, ..read more

Desktop Maestro If you want to clean the junk, remove redundant files and generally take control of your computer then you need PC Tools Desktop Maestro. It’s an integrated computer management and cleanup tool that combines the functionality of PC Tools’ Registry Mechanic and Privacy Guardian to help maintain your system’s performance and your privacy. In fact, it’s probably the safest and most reliable “crap cleaner” for Windows. Go to Original Source

PBTweet Enhances Your Twitter Experience

PBTweet is a Twitter-enhancement available as a bookmarklet, GreaseKit script, and GreaseMonkey script, which allows you to enhance and tweak Twitter in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox.

What are some of the enhancements provided by PBTweet? You can thread conversations, PBTweet puts quick-response buttons directly under each tweet so you can translate the text, re-tweet, and use a via @ tag.

URLs shortened using tinyurl.com, bit.ly, ff.im, twurl.il and is.gd can be expanded with a mouse-over. Pictures shared with ..read more

Silence of the Foxes Creates Custom Firefox Installations

If you hate installing all your Firefox extensions, plugins, and custom tweaks when you do fresh system installation, Silence of the Foxes will build you a custom and silent Firefox installation.

Silence of the Foxes works on both Firefox and Thunderbird, although most users will find it most helpful for streamlining Firefox installations.

Download Silence of the Foxes, extract the files, and run the main executable. You’ll need a Firefox installation file for Silence of ..read more

SimplyIcon Makes Icon Creation a Snap

Windows: If you don’t want to spend time micro-designing an icon and you’ve already got a source image, SimplyIcon makes creating your buttons and icons a drag-and-drop matter.

Download the SimplyIcon package, extract the executable and DLL file to a folder, run the program, and you’re presented with a simple dialogue box and the instructions to drag and drop an image onto it. Once you drag and drop the image, SimplyIcon creates a variety of icon ..read more

Google Voice Message Playback Comes to Gmail

If you’re both a Gmail and Google Voice user, you should be thrilled with the latest feature from Gmail Labs: The Google Voice Player feature embeds a voicemail player inside Gmail so you can listen to new messages directly inside Gmail.

To enable it, just hit up the Labs link in Gmail, find the Google Voice player in mail feature, click enable, and save your changes. Now not only can you read your transcribed voicemail ..read more

What’s the “Best” Spam Email You’ve Received?

Whether it’s the surreal stylings of Nigerian scammers or confusing subject lines of pill pitches, spam email can be oddly amusing. We’d like to hear which missives from your spam folder have made you crack a smile.

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PC World rounded up some of their own best/worst spam messages and published them for your amusement. Included in the “straight to the spam folder” notes was a “business” opportunity that read, “This opportunity may ..read more

Windows 7 Transfers Your Wireless Settings Easily

After discovering how easily WEP can be cracked and creating a long, secure WPA2 key, you’ve probably noticed it’s a pain to get friends connected to your Wi-Fi network when they stop by. Windows 7 makes this process easy.

Over at the How-To Geek site (my home away from Lifehacker), guest blogger Ciprian writes up the quick and easy process of transferring your wireless network settings from your Windows 7 PC to any other machine ..read more

Customize Your Web Modifies Web Pages to Your Liking

Firefox on Windows: If you’ve always wanted to modify websites with Stylish and/or Greasemonkey but lack the CSS or JavaScript chops, Customize Your Web lets non-developers change the appearance of web pages and add functionality to them.

Using Customize Your Web’s WYSIWYG editor, you can change the appearance of elements, hide them, or copy and paste them somewhere else in the page. You can also add keyboard navigation or auto-executing macros. For advanced ..read more

Jailbreak Your iPhone 3.1 Edition

The iPhone Dev team jailbreaks iPhone 3.1 (for some), Bing is buggier than Google, and voice chat is making its way to Facebook.

3 • fun! The iPhone Dev Team has released a new Pwnage Tool for the iPhone 3.1 update. The catch: It currently doesn’t work on the 3GS or the 2nd or 3rd generation iPod touch. The first release is for OS X only, but the Dev Team blog claims support for other devices and Windows ..read more