Eric Fleming
Living in Brooklyn Park, MN
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On AC since: 02.06.07
Bio:
I've always been interested in computers, software, music, sports, books and film, and am thrilled with the opportunity to let others step into my mind and get an idea of what I'm really thinking.
I've always been interested in computers, software, music, sports, books and film, and am thrilled with the opportunity to let others step into my mind and get an idea of what I'm really thinking.
Education/Experience:
B.A. in Music, B.A. in Sacred Music, English Lit Minor
B.A. in Music, B.A. in Sacred Music, English Lit Minor
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Use Squash to compress and convert all your images for greater space efficiency and compatibility.
By Eric Fleming | Published 5/11/2009 | Read more »
Site Launcher is a Firefox extension that lets users launch their favorite websites from the keyboard, through a slick, customizable interface.
By Eric Fleming | Published 5/7/2009 | Read more »
Shutter is a fantastic screenshot utility for Linux that provides a lot of functionality and is very simple to use.
By Eric Fleming | Published 5/7/2009 | Read more »
FLAC has quickly become the "default" form of lossless compression across the Internet, but SHN files still exist. Here's how to quickly convert them to MP3 on Linux systems.
By Eric Fleming | Published 5/7/2009 | Read more »
With PyRoom, you can write without outside distractions. Be more productive and cut out the "noise" of everday Internet and computer life.
By Eric Fleming | Published 5/6/2009 | Read more »
With RDown, you can download lots of Rapidshare links without having to manually wait for the time limit. RDown does it for you.
By Eric Fleming | Published 5/6/2009 | Read more »
Pagico is a great personal organizer available for Mac, Windows and Linux. No matter which computer system you use, Pagico keeps you, and your projects, organized.
By Eric Fleming | Published 5/6/2009 | Read more »
Pixlr is a great piece of image editing software that loads in 2 seconds, and runs right inside your web browser.
By Eric Fleming | Published 5/6/2009 | Read more »
Collecting all those various bits of data you run across every day just got a lot easier with Incollector.
By Eric Fleming | Published 5/5/2009 | Read more »
Imagination Slideshow Creator for Linux is a simple way to create great-looking slideshows of your favorite images, with little effort!
By Eric Fleming | Published 5/5/2009 | Read more »
With GFrameCatcher, it's simple to create a preview sheet of many screen captures from a video.
By Eric Fleming | Published 5/5/2009 | Read more »
With DiscWrapper, it's a breeze to create labels and covers for your CDs and DVDs.
By Eric Fleming | Published 5/5/2009 | Read more »
Phish is back after a four and a half year break. The concerts are completely sold out, but you can still listen to the music, completely free of charge!
By Eric Fleming | Published 3/5/2009 | Read more »
If you're ready to begin shopping for a portable MP3 player, read this article to find out what you should look for to get a player that's perfect for you.
By Eric Fleming | Published 2/23/2009 | Read more »
Gone are the days when you had to buy a full CD just to get one song. Now you can download individual tracks off the Internet. Find out what the most popular songs to download are, and where to get them.
By Eric Fleming | Published 2/20/2009 | Read more »
Strom is not only a decent flowchart maker, but it's also available for Windows, Mac and Linux, so no matter your computing platform, you can use Strom.
By Eric Fleming | Published 2/9/2009 | Read more »
With iConcertCal, you can get up-to-date album release and concert information tailored to what you listen to, right inside iTunes.
By Eric Fleming | Published 2/9/2009 | Read more »
WRadio is a shareware widget for you Mac OSX Dashboard that makes streaming online radio a breeze.
By Eric Fleming | Published 2/3/2009 | Read more »
While AudioRefurb gives you many audio editing features Audacity offers for free, there are reasons to pay the twenty dollar shareware fee.
By Eric Fleming | Published 2/3/2009 | Read more »
BBC Radio Widget makes it easy to stream BBC Radio right to your Mac. It's really easy to use, works well, and it's free!
By Eric Fleming | Published 2/3/2009 | Read more »
With Firetorrent installed, you can download torrent files right inside the default Firefox download manager, all without installing a torrent client!
By Eric Fleming | Published 2/3/2009 | Read more »
With Pyjama installed, you can stream Magnatune albums right from your desktop. No web browser necessary!
By Eric Fleming | Published 2/3/2009 | Read more »
With Gnac installed, it's a simple matter to convert all your audio to tons of different formats, all with just a few clicks.
By Eric Fleming | Published 2/3/2009 | Read more »
With TwitterBar installed, you can post links and Tweets to your Twitter account without opening up another web page. Do it all from Firefox's URL bar!
By Eric Fleming | Published 2/3/2009 | Read more »
When comparing storage drives for your computer or server, you'll want to compare and contrast traditional hard disk drives with solid state drives.
By Eric Fleming | Published 1/14/2009 | Read more »
South Carolina may have the Old Ball Coach at the helm, but the Iowa Hawkeyes have Shonn Greene at running back. Result? Easy Iowa victory.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/30/2008 | Read more »
Click to read about the five games I think are easily the greatest five college football bowl games I've seen.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/26/2008 | Read more »
Quadrophenia is an album full of great songs, but it's a concept album, so there must be something more... something holding it together. Is there a story somewhere inside?
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/12/2008 | Read more »
With Point N See installed and running, you can zoom into any portion of the screen; great for small print or tiny words in photos.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/3/2008 | Read more »
With iFlicks, it's easy to import, convert and tag all your video files into your iTunes Library. Add Perian, and you can play all kinds of videos QuickTime and iTunes don't normally support.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/3/2008 | Read more »
With the Craigslist Widget installed, you can browse the most recent Craigslist classified ads, right from your Mac's Dashboard.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/3/2008 | Read more »
Missing Apple's free iCard service? You aren't alone. But many people have found Fun Card Maker, from Ohanaware, to be a viable replacement. It doesn't have all of Apple's snazzy artwork, but it's classy and simple to use!
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/3/2008 | Read more »
With CocoaSlideShow installed, you don't have to use Preview or iPhoto to quickly and easily view slideshows of your favorite pictures.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
Admit it, you're tired of making decisions... who to vote for... what to wear... who to date... what to fix for dinner... it's a big chore! Why not let your computer decide for you?
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
With Integrity, a webmaster can instantly find out which of his links are good, and which lead to problems. Easy to use, fast, and inexpensive, Integrity is a great tool.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
If you're looking for a basic text editor for Mac OS X, you already have TextEdit installed. But you might want to try out NovoEdit, just to compare.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
With TorrentDam installed, you can start searches on seven of the most popular torrent trackers on the web, all at once!
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
With Visage, you can control many of the aspects of OS X, aspects Apple wants to keep to itself. Run a screen saver as a wallpaper? Check. Change the Apple logo in the login screen? Yup. That, and a lot more.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
With DropFix, you can resize and convert your images, for posting to the web or a blog, or for emailing.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
With aTypeTrainer4Mac, you can learn to type by touch, which will increase both your speed and your accuracy.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
With the Gmail Multiple From Address Extension and Greasemonkey, you'll get a popup warning each time you send an email, to make sure you're using the one you intended.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
With a temporary email address like those offered by Melt Mail, you can lessen the likelihood of getting spam in your inbox because of being forced to provide an email address to try a piece of software or register for a website.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
With Advanced Gnome Menu, you can do everything the standard Gnome menu can do (launch applications, navigate your hard drive, change system preferences), and with its plugin system, eventually a whole lot more.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
With the FoxClocks Firefox extension, you can keep track of times around the country, or around the world, right in your Firefox status bar.
By Eric Fleming | Published 12/2/2008 | Read more »
With GCal Popup, you get a fully functional Google Calendar page overlaid on top of your current page, all with a click of the mouse.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
SeaMonkey is a web browser, html editor, email client, address book and chat application, all in one. Based on the same technologies that brought you Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
Fasterfox Lite is a great extension for the Firefox web browser that speeds up browsing through a few configuration tricks.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
1-ClickWeather puts weather from around the world right in your Firefox status bar. Get up-to-date weather reports, forecasts, radar images and videos.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
Audacity is a fantastic audio editor that works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. You can record, edit and convert all kinds of audio.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
With HyperWords, you can look up word definitions, find instances on a web page and search shopping networks (and more), all with a couple clicks of the mouse.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
With Wallpaper Shifter, you get a random wallpaper change every time you start up, and a program that runs once, does its job and gets out of your way.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
With QuickStart, you can perform tasks commonly accomplished from the command line, without ever using the Terminal.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
With FireStatus, you can change your status and get friend updates from three popular social networking websites.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
If you find yourself constantly dealing with dozens of open tabs, and you use Firefox, then try out TabGroups-Plus and save yourself a lot of headaches.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
With WideMail installed, you get a side by side by side view of your email, instead of the standard 3-pane formation. Perfect for those with widescreen monitors.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
With Permanent Eraser, you make sure then when you delete a file, it stays deleted.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
With EverSave, you can automatically save your frontmost application, or all your open documents, which is great for avoiding accidental data loss.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
Pointer Plus is perfect for those who have a large screen or give a lot of presentations, where following the cursor is difficult, but important.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
With Webbla, you can access all your bookmarks from all your web browsers, and then browse your bookmarks visually, using little thumbnail images, kept up-to-date.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
With Fashion Your Firefox, you can install multiple extensions all at once. No more searching, installing, searching installing... do it all in one easy step.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
SilverKeeper is free hard drive backup software for Mac, from LaCie. It can backup all your hard drive, all the user folders, or just one. It's easy to setup and use, and although not as flexible as it could be, gets the job done.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
Fire is a quick and easy way to search a lot of torrent sites without having to load each one. It isn't ready for prime time, but Fire is a really good idea.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
With Pluto, you can take notes and make to-do lists, all from a handy, free, menu bar item.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
Unlike most ad blocking software, which is either an ugly hack or web browser specific, GlimmerBlocker installs as a system preference, which means it works even after a program update, and works with multiple web browsers.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
With Yoono, you get email, chat, Facebook, Last.FM... all the best social aspects of the web, right in your Firefox sidebar.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/11/2008 | Read more »
GThumb is a nice image viewer and editor for Gnome Linux. It lets you browse your images, view them in slideshows, and even perform basic editing tasks. It probably won't replace The GIMP... but it might.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With Klavaro, anyone using Linux or Windows can learn to touch type in only a few lessons. It's simple but powerful.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
Amigo is a really easy-to-use menu bar item for your Mac. With it, you can see new posts, view profile pictures, and start messages to all your Facebook friends.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With GSmartControl, you can't be sure you'll get an early warning that your hard drive is about to fail, but careful reading of the SMART data might alert you to potential problems.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With RSS Menu, you don't have to visit a dozen different websites every day to get your news. Just enter their RSS or Atom feed addresses, and you can keep up-to-date with this handy, easy-to-use menu bar application.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With PhotoBook, a Mac Facebook application, you can view your pictures (as well as those of your Facebook friends), right from the desktop. It's attractive, fast and easy to use!
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With UrlbarExt installed, you can create links, copy a link to the clipboard, a lot more, right from your Firefox Url Bar!
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With a few carefully chosen extensions, you can turn Mozilla Thunderbird, already a great basic email client, into a powerhouse application with web browsing, calendars, web integration and more.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
PeaZip is a nice, easy to use compression utility for Linux and Windows that makes it simple to create and edit file archives.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
Use Zip Mac Files For The PC, a program for Mac OS X, to ensure that when you share files or folders with PC users, you send only the files you want to send, and nothing else.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With Traffix, there's no need to worry about how much bandwidth you use, or if your Internet Provider will kick you off for excessive consumption.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
QuickNote is a stripped-down, basic note-taking application for Mac that makes it easy to not only jot down notes for yourself, but extends your clipboard as well.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With Funtastic Photos, you'll be sprucing up those boring old photos into something classy in no time at all!
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With Pencil, a Firefox extension that can also run as a standalone application, you can make charts and diagrams, as well as prototype GUI elements.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With QuickScale, it's simple to scale pictures, and a whole lot more.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With Screenie, it's simple to create nice-looking screenshot displays, just like you see on Apple.com and a lot of other websites.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
ResizeMe provides users with a fast, simple way to resize images. Perfect for getting an image ready for a website or email.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
While Stainless may never be more than a proof-of-concept browser for Mac, its style and speed make it worth a try.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With Task Coach, you can keep all your appointments and tasks in one place, with easy to use prioritizing and categorizing. Works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With the Transmission Web Interface, Mac and Linux users can manage all their bittorrent downloads, no matter where they are.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With Tofu, plain and rich text files are easier to read. Don't minimize your window to make reading web text easier on your eyes... use Tofu!
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With the TV Manager extension installed, you get fast access to TV schedules, current and upcoming, along with reminders, in your Firefox sidebar.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
Vuze - the bittorrent client formerly known as Azureus - recently received an update, and it's even better than before. With torrent searching, a store and a streamlined interface, Vuze is a great client for anyone.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With Nodobe you don't need to install Adobe Reader Plugin. Plus you can read more than 30 types of documents right inside Firefox. Is it a good product, worthy of being installed? Maybe, maybe not.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs, the accurately (but not-very-cleverly) named OpenOffice extension, it's simple to use OpenOffice, a great desktop office suite, with Google Docs, a fantastic online webapp.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
If you download a lot of video off the Web, lately you may have started seeing more and more MKV files. What are they, and how do you open them? Read on to find out the best way.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
Instantbird is to instant messenger programs what Thunderbird is to email clients and Firefox is to web browser. Free, open source, multi-platform and based on Mozilla.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With Griffith, it's easy to add movies to your movie database. Search the Internet for information on movies you own, and Griffith automatically downloads that information. Very little typing required!
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With WOT (Web Of Trust) installed, you'll get early warnings, as early as a Google search results page, that you might be about to enter a dangerous website.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With Gwibber, you can read and post to Twitter, Facebook and more, all from the comfort of a desktop application, without ever loading up a single web interface.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
Gnome FTP, often shortened to gFTP, is a basic FTP client for Linux. With it, you can upload and download from FTP sites, as well as maintain a list of your accounts.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
File Roller is a great archiving utility for Linux. It can handle ZIP files, RAR, TAR, and more. It's the default client for Gnome Linux, but can be installed pretty much wherever you want.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With Empathy installed, you can chat with all your friends on tons of different chat protocols. AIM? MSN? Yahoo? Google Talk? Empathy has you covered.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
FireFTP is a great basic FTP client designed to run directly inside the Firefox web browser. But with a little know-how, it can run as a standalone application as well.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
FrostWire is a nice Peer to Peer downloading tool. It runs on Java, so it's not the most responsive application, but if you like LimeWire, then you'll love FrostWire.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
Using Appnr is a fast, friendly way to install programs on Ubuntu Linux.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
With Gmail's new canned responses feature, you can now reply to common emails with your most commonly-used responses, with just a click or two.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
If you've ever uploaded a bunch of photos to image-sharing websites, or attached multiple documents to a Gmail message, you know how frustrating it can be. Well, with DragDropUpload installed, that process just got a lot simpler.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
CrossFTP is a great FTP client that works on any platform. Just make sure you have Java installed.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/5/2008 | Read more »
As reported in the November 1 edition of the New York Post, Barack Obama's Aunt Zeituni is not only in the United States as an illegal immigrant, but she also somehow managed to get money for public housing, as well as donate to Obama's campaign.
By Eric Fleming | Published 11/1/2008 | Read more »
With Delivery Status installed, you can track shipments from dozens of shippers, all from your Mac OS X Dashboard.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/17/2008 | Read more »
KGet is more than just a download manager, it's a bittorrent client and a download accelerator that can access both HTTP and FTP downloads.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/16/2008 | Read more »
With Selenium, you can perform research, jot down an outline, write a paper, keep track of bibliography information and more, for multiple projects, all in the same application.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/16/2008 | Read more »
Fotoxx is a great open source image editor for Linux that takes care of common touch-up issues with digital photographs, such as lighting, skewing, red eye and more.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/16/2008 | Read more »
Make sure your emails and documents are safe with PGP, and Seahorse is a fantastic desktop application for Linux that makes managing all those keys and passwords very simple.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
With ScrapBook installed, you can capture any web page, or section of the web page, to your scrapbook, and are even able to edit, comment, and get rid of elements you don't want, before or after saving.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
Okular picks up where KPDF left off for KDE users. Okular looks good, is fast, has a lot of features, and can read a ton of different formats, with more possible via plugins.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
Guwf is an easy to use, yet powerful graphical interface to Uncomplicated Firewall, a program that makes managing a firewall fairly simple. With Guwf, it's even easier!
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
Lancelot is the name of a new application launcher, billing itself as a next-generation launcher, for KDE4. It is pretty amazing, and in my testing made navigating the computer, launching applications and interacting with my friends faster, simpler, and more efficient.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
With the Language Translator widget installed, you have access to nearly instant language translations to and from English and to a large number of other languages.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
With xCuts installed, you'll have all your Mac's shortcuts right at your fingertips in a handy Dashboard widget.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
With FFXporter you can upload all your favorite pictures to your Flickr account, all without leaving iPhoto or having to use the web-based uploader. Simple and free!
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
Google recently released a beta version of Picasa 3 for Windows. Although a version is coming for Linux, I thought it would be simple to install it via WINE. And it was!
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
With Wubi, you can download and install Ubuntu Linux and install it, safely and simply, into your Windows system, then use it just like any other operating system.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
With SubDownloader installed, Linux users now have very simple searching and downloading of thousands of subtitle files for videos and DVDs.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
With TV Forecast installed, all you need to do is plug in your favorite TV shows, and TV Forecast watches for them and alerts you when they next air. Simple, free and useful!
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
With MacTubes, you can search for your favorite YouTube video, watch it, then download it to your Mac, all without using a web browser.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
Postr is a fantastic desktop application for Linux that makes it simple to upload multiple photos to Flickr. Much better than the web interface.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
With Picasa Web Albums Uploader, Mac users can upload multiple pictures to Picasa, use existing albums or create their own, plus get all that functionality - not only in a standalone application - but in iPhoto as well.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
This article is about a Firefox extension called New Tab JumpStart, and it is a virtual clone of my favorite feature in the new Google Chrome Web browser.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/15/2008 | Read more »
Opening Day in the NHL. What teams will challenge for the Cup? There are some familiar names on my list, but don't be surprised if a team comes out of nowhere to make a strong run at the championship.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/10/2008 | Read more »
There were a lot of movers and shakers this off-season in the NHL. Big-time teams traded for big-name players. Here are the ones I think are most important.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/9/2008 | Read more »
Coccinella is a chat client that runs the same protocol as Google Talk and Nokia Talk, but it also includes voice chat, group chat and a whiteboard, so you and the people you chat with can share documents and jot down ideas in real time.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/8/2008 | Read more »
Gnome MPlayer, as the name suggests, is an interface (for Gnome Linux users), to the MPlayer multimedia player. It supports the same features as MPlayer, but with a simpler interface that blends in with the Gnome desktop.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/8/2008 | Read more »
GPicView aims to be a fast replacement for your default image viewer. It uses GTK+ for speed, and doesn't boast a lot of fancy features, but the speed... it's worth it, in my opinion.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/8/2008 | Read more »
Nautilus Script Pack is a package of scripts that add a ton of power and features to Nautilus without having to install a bunch of heavy, single-purpose programs. Do it all from the desktop with Nautilus Script Pack.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/8/2008 | Read more »
Hyper Video Converter makes it easy for beginners to convert video, but also allows power users to take full advantage of FFmpeg's features.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/5/2008 | Read more »
Google offers a nice dictionary service, and with this Firefox extension, you can access it from whatever web page you're browsing, with just a couple clicks of the mouse.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/4/2008 | Read more »
Totally Free Burner is a free burning solution (CD and DVD), for Windows, making it simple to assemble and burn audio, data and video discs.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/4/2008 | Read more »
With TheMonoSpot, you can get all kinds of information about "trouble" media files, including codecs used, bitrates, and more.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/4/2008 | Read more »
I've written about other web-backup solutions before, but DropBox is - in my experience - the best of them all. Simple to set up and simple to use. And it's free! What could be better?
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/4/2008 | Read more »
With Tomfox, you can integrate Tomboy Notes, a fantastic note-taking application for Linux, with Firefox. Just highlight some text in Firefox, right-click, and choose to create a new note in Tomboy... it's that simple!
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
With Tab PopUp, you don't need to click on a tab to see what's in it... just mouse over the tab and instantly see an up-to-date preview image!
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
SafariBlock is a Safari add-on that makes blocking web advertisements as easy as could be. This is an add-on that everyone using Safari should install. Seriously. Right now.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
With Photo! Web Album, it's simple to make great-looking albums for your photos, and upload them to the Internet, all with only a few clicks of the mouse.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
Photo! Editor is a free image editor for Windows. It doesn't have all the features of Photoshop (it's more of an image tweaker than a full image manipulation program), but it does make it simple to perform simple touch-ups on your images.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
Glims is a cool Safari addon that adds a ton of features users of Firefox will likely be familiar with from having installed extensions. It adds a lot of features, and is controlled in one handy preference panel.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
While these extensions won't make Firefox "exactly" like Google Chrome, they sure do go a long way toward making Mozilla's most popular project a little more like Google's new web browser.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
SMPlayer is the best multimedia player I've used. It has a great interface, a ton of customization options, works in both Windows and Linux, and - most importantly - will play practically anything I throw at it. Download it now (after reading the article).
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
With ScribeFire, you can write your blog posts inside Firefox without using your blog's web interface. It's got a ton of great features that make blogging simpler and more fun.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
RipOff is a CD ripper for Linux that strips out everything basic users don't need and makes it simple to rip CDs to your hard drive.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
Read It Later allows you to take all those websites you want to check out, but don't want to add to your permanent bookmark collection, and add them to a list of to-be-read-later items, with just a single click.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
OGMRip is a user-friendly solution for backing up your DVD movies to your hard drive with only a couple clicks.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
With OggConvert, you can get rid of all your proprietary codecs, like Windows Media and Real, and replace them with high quality, free and open source equivalents by Ogg, such as FLAC, Vorbis and Theora.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/3/2008 | Read more »
With Quick Media Converter, you can open up practically any multimedia file and convert it with just a couple clicks of the mouse. It's fast, and incredibly simple to use.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/2/2008 | Read more »
With Mobile Media Converter, you can convert practically any multimedia file to one appropriate for your mobile media devices... fast and easy!
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/2/2008 | Read more »
MediaConverter is a Firefox extension that allows you to convert a video from the web into a different format before converting it. Handy, fast and it saves you the trouble of converting it for yourself.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/2/2008 | Read more »
Some websites have links that are visible, but not clickable, which is a pain. Linkification, a Firefox extension, solves this by making every link on a page (or whichever ones you specify), clickable!
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/2/2008 | Read more »
LastPass is an extension (currently for Firefox and IE, and soon for Safari), that lets you keep all your passwords together, but accessible via a master password... the last password you'll ever need to remember.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/2/2008 | Read more »
Juice is software (for Windows, Mac and Linux), that allows users to subscribe to, and download, podcasts from all over the Internet.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/2/2008 | Read more »
ImageMagick is a great tool for tweaking images. It isn't the most user-friendly tool ever, but it does have a decent interface, other than the commandline, once you find it.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/1/2008 | Read more »
Google Preview is a Firefox extension that adds automatic web thumbnails to your Google search results, making searching faster and more efficient.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/1/2008 | Read more »
With GScrot, you can take great screen shots, of the entire screen, a selection, a window, or a web page. It's all up to you.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/1/2008 | Read more »
With Google Mail Notifier and Google Reader Watcher installed, Firefox users will always get instant updates when a new email or blog post is available.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/1/2008 | Read more »
The Flegita scanning utility is a far simpler, more user friendly way to scan documents in Gnome Linux.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/1/2008 | Read more »
With the Fire FM extension, Firefox users can now listen to Last.FM music streams without going to Last.FM or having the Last.FM client application open. It's all accessible from the toolbar.
By Eric Fleming | Published 10/1/2008 | Read more »
Save yourself the hassle, pain and anguish that can occur when you reinstall or delete Firefox (or your operating system), by backing it all up, in a single step, with FEBE, the Firefox Environment Backup Extension.
By Eric Fleming | Published 9/29/2008 | Read more »
With Eye Defender installed (and used properly), you won't need to worry so much about eye strain caused by excessive computer use.
By Eric Fleming | Published 9/29/2008 | Read more »
Much like Launchy and Quicksilver, Executor allows users to easily and quickly launch their favorite applications, all without moving the mouse or clicking anything. All your apps can be launched from the keyboard.
By Eric Fleming | Published 9/29/2008 | Read more »
With Ctrl-Tab, you can navigate through your open browser tabs the same way you can browse through your open applications. Fast and easy!
By Eric Fleming | Published 9/29/2008 | Read more »
Linux users now have another option for launching applications - Circular Application Menu. It mimics the default Gnome menu system, but places it on the desktop.
By Eric Fleming | Published 9/29/2008 | Read more »
Circle Dock lets you launch applications and navigate through folders, all without moving your mouse... very much.
By Eric Fleming | Published 9/29/2008 | Read more »
Looking for great family-friendly television shows to watch during Prime Time? Look no further than these five shows, great for all ages!
By Eric Fleming | Published 9/26/2008 | Read more »
Is Barack for real? Will McCain and Palin win? Read to learn my views.
By Eric Fleming | Published 9/18/2008 | Read more »
Are Don and Carol Fowler, he the former chair of the DNC and she the chairwoman for the Democratic Party in South Carolina, really the type of people Democrats want leading them during this time of Obama's hope/change?
By Eric Fleming | Published 9/10/2008 | Read more »
With BitLet, you can download all your bittorrent files from right inside your browser, without installing a client.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/13/2008 | Read more »
I've been using 7z compression on Linux for a while, so I was happy to see it also available for Windows. It's a good, fast utility with a nice compression ratio as well.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/13/2008 | Read more »
With the GmailDrive Shell Extension installed, Windows users can take advantage of their Gmail accounts by using all that extra storage space as a hard drive for online backups, all from the comfort of their own Desktop.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/13/2008 | Read more »
EASUS Partition Manager aims to be a replacement for the venerable Partition Magic. I took the free version out for a spin, so click and see what I thought about it.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/13/2008 | Read more »
WinRoll - a free, open-source project for Windows - allows you to "roll up" your windows until just the title bar is showing, saving space and making it easy to organize your windows. Like Windowshade (for Mac), but free!
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/12/2008 | Read more »
Halite is a free, open-source, lightweight bittorrent client that offers selective downloading, can make torrent files, and is able to host torrents without a central tracker.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/12/2008 | Read more »
With CDBurnerXP, you can do all that you'd expect out of a free burning application, and more... just as burning BluRay and HD-DVD discs, converting disc images and more.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/12/2008 | Read more »
Digsby is a cool new chat client - and a whole lot more - for Windows users. Currently is supports email and social networking via MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/12/2008 | Read more »
With Y'z Shadow, a free utility for Windows XP, you can add drop shadows to all your windows and menus. These shadows not only make your desktop look classy, they also - in my opinion - help with productivity. Read on to find out more...
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/11/2008 | Read more »
The Jing Project is a free piece of software that allows Windows and Mac users to easily grab screenshots and take screencasts with only a click or two of the mouse, and then upload the result to share with all their friends.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/11/2008 | Read more »
GrabIt is a nice, free solution for people wanting to browse Usenet discussion groups or download binaries. It also supports NZB, which is a huge plus for power downloaders, and has a simple interface for those new to Usenet.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/11/2008 | Read more »
I saw a description of Colibri saying it was the closest thing Windows users have to the Quicksilver (for Mac) launcher. I'm a huge Quicksilver fan, so of course I tried it out. How did I like it? Read on to find out.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/11/2008 | Read more »
SHN (or Shorten) files are a lossless compression scheme for audio files. It's an older format, and not really updated anymore, but recently I needed to deal with them. This is how I figured out how to do it; hopefully someone else can use this guide to save some time.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/11/2008 | Read more »
Snarl is like Growl (for Mac), but for Windows. It makes those dreary system messages look appealing. It may not add any new features to your computer, but it takes the features already there and makes them better.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/11/2008 | Read more »
Are you a Windows XP user who refuses to upgrade? Do you have hardware issues that are keeping you from installing Vista, or have software necessary to your daily life that isn't Vista compatible yet?
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/11/2008 | Read more »
If you're one of those people who likes browsing images on the Internet, you must install the PicLens extension; it will make your photo-viewing experience better than you could have ever imagined.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/11/2008 | Read more »
Kingsoft Writer is a word processor (new to me), for Windows that offers very good Microsoft Word compatibility, plus both commercial and free versions.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/11/2008 | Read more »
With gAttach, for Windows, you can attach a file to a Gmail message, without even opening up your web browser. Plus, gAttach makes sure all mailto: links go to Gmail instead of a desktop email client.
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/11/2008 | Read more »
With Desktop Media, you'll no longer have to drill down through My Computer just to access your removable media. Desktop Media puts their icons where they belong... on your Desktop!
By Eric Fleming | Published 8/8/2008 | Read more »
With WeatherSnitch, you get instant, up-to-date weather information in your Mac's Menu Bar, for free.
By Eric Fleming | Published 7/31/2008 | Read more »
With Scour.com, you can search the top three search engines (Google, MSN and Yahoo), all at once, write comments and vote on search results, and earn money in the process.
By Eric Fleming | Published 7/30/2008 | Read more »
The iTweak utility (for Mac) allows web creators to further tweak their websites (those originally created with iWeb), adding features and customization options that iWeb lacks... for free!
By Eric Fleming | Published 7/30/2008 | Read more »
TapeDeck brings back the look and feel of a 1970's era tape recorder, with the quality and ease of use of a modern digital recorder.
By Eric Fleming | Published 7/30/2008 | Read more »
Sliderocket is a new, web-based alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple Keynote. It isn't as powerful as either, but it's free, goes wherever you have internet, and offers sharing abilities the other two lack.
By Eric Fleming | Published 7/30/2008 | Read more »
KeePassX is one of the best, if not the best, password applications I've used. It's fast, free and secure, very flexible, and can be used on Mac, Linux and Windows.
By Eric Fleming | Published 7/29/2008 | Read more »
PandoraBoy is a Mac-only application that allows you to listen to Pandora Radio right from your desktop.
By Eric Fleming | Published 7/29/2008 | Read more »
Pandora Desktop brings Pandora Radio to your desktop, whether you use Mac or Windows.
By Eric Fleming | Published 7/29/2008 | Read more »
With the Xoopit Firefox extension and Gmail, you can now find all those long-lost attachments (pictures, videos and documents), and browse them in an attractive, easy-to-use interface.
By Eric Fleming | Published 7/29/2008 | Read more »
Monsoon is the new default bittorrent client for OpenSUSE 11. I tried out OpenSUSE 11 a few weeks ago and gave Monsoon a run through. These are my impressions.
By Eric Fleming | Published 7/29/2008 | Read more »
Google Bookmarks is an easy way to keep all your web links in one place, but Safari doesn't have a simple way to access it. Until now.
By Eric Fleming | Published 7/29/2008 | Read more »
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