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Create Synchronicity Is a Tiny, Portable Backup and Sync Utility

Windows only: Portable, open-source backup utility Create Synchronicity is a tiny but powerful way to run backups or synchronize folders on your system, an external drive, or to another PC on your network.Once you’ve launched the utility, you’ll need to click on the New Profile icon and type in a name for the profile, which will open up the settings window where you can choose the source and destination folders and ..read more

Celestia Brings Interstellar Exploration to Your Desktop

If you enjoyed playing with Stellarium, the open-source planetarium software we shared with you earlier this year, but felt strangely tied to an earth-bound perspective, you’ll definitely want to fly through space with Celestia.

Celestia picks up where Stellarium leaves off. With Celestia you can zoom through the known universe, flying through star clusters and swooping in to examine far off galaxies. On its own Celestia is a really fun tool to play with but ..read more

LongBar is a Slick, Open-Source Sidebar for Windows

Windows only: Desktop sidebar LongBar hosts mini-applications as “tiles”, giving you application launchers, system stats, Facebook updates, sticky notes, and more on the side of your screen.

Once you’ve installed and launched LongBar, you can use the tiny arrow at the top of the bar to access the settings menu, where you can move the sidebar to the right-hand side of the screen, and change between a couple of available skins. Unlike most sidebars, ..read more

MahTweets is an Impressive, Customizable Facebook and Twitter Client

Windows only: Fans of TweetDeck with a preference for open source will love MahTweets, a plugin-based Twitter client that also integrates with Facebook, Flickr, Twitpic, and more, and offers all kinds of handy customizations.

The first thing you do upon opening MahTweets is choose what plugins you want to install. Right now it’s only got a few, but they give you the opportunity to choose what networks you want integrated (including Facebook, Twitter, ..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