When moving, copying, pasting, browsing, and getting information about your files feels like tedious work—and it can in the feature-sparse Windows Explorer—you need some power add-ons that can help. Instead of completely replacing Windows Explorer with an alternative file manager, you can pick and choose the extra features you want and add them piecemeal. Let’s take a look at some free power add-ons for Windows Explorer that make dealing with your growing file collection faster and easier. Read the rest of this entry »

Mozilla baru-baru ini memperkenalkan prototipe sistem komunikasi masa depan berupa aplikasi ekstensi browser Firefox, Snowl.

Kendati masih berupa prototipe, kemampuan Snowl sebagai sebuah ekstensi Firefox bisa dikategorikan cukup canggih. Pasalnya, aplikasi tersebut dibenamkan fitur-fitur seperti e-mail, instant messaging (IM), RSS, jejaring sosial, dan web diskusi.

Salah seorang pengembang Mozilla Myk Melez menuturukan dengan ditambahkannya Snowl ke dalam sebuah browser Firefox maka browser tersebut bisa disulap menjadi sebuah diskusi online.

“Adakah sebuah browser web yang mampu membuat anda ikut serta dalam sebuah diskusi online?” tandas Melez dalam blognya, seperti dikutip ZDnet, Minggu (17/8/2008).

“Tidak hanya itu, Snowl juga mendukung sejumlah situs jaringan sosial seperti Facebook atau IM dari AIM maupun Google Talk,” tandasnya.

Di samping itu, Snowl juga memberikan fitur-fitur seperti navigating web content, termasuk tabs, bookmarks dan history pada browser web.

“Sebelum aplikasi ini diluncurkan secara final, Mozilla ingin menjelajahi Snowl lebih dulu untuk lebih mengenal konsep yang menjanjikan ini,” ungkap Melez.

Namun demikian, Melez tetap mengingatkan kepada seluruh penggunanya agar selalu waspada, karena biar bagaimana pun juga, sebuah prototipe pasti masih memiliki banyak Bugs yg terbuka.

Easeus Partition Manager is a comprehensive hard disk volume or partition management tool similar to Partition Magic that serves as the replacement for Windows built-in Disk Management user interface. Easeus Partition Manager provides all types of basic and advanced functions such as ability to resize and move partitions, create, delete and format partitions, hide and unhide partitions, supports RAID and much more.

Key Features of Easeus Partition Manager:

• Support hardware RAID
• Resize and move partitions without losing data
• Create and delete partitions with simple step
• Label partitions - assigned to a partition for easier recognition
• Format partitions with a click
• View Disk/Partition property of each partition
• Hide and unhide partitions - protect important data from unauthorized or casual access
• Set an active partition - specify one partition to be the boot partition
• Preview the effects of partitioning a hard drive before implementing anything
• Change cluster size automatically and manually
• Support hard disks from 20GB to 800GB
• User-friendly interface

Easeus Partition Manager Personal Edition is free for home users for unlimited usage without restriction. Every person can download and install Easeus Partition Manager for personal use. However, Personal Edition of Easeus Partition Manager only supports Windows XP and Windows 2000 SP4, but not Windows Server 2003 Server or Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server editions. Read the rest of this entry »

The video above from DIY web site Instructables demonstrates four different CD spindle-repurposing projects from start-to-finish. We’ve seen variations on most of these projects before, like the toilet paper dispenser, bagel holder, and cable organizer, but the video provides step-by-step instructions and a few clever tweaks for alternate uses. The bagel holder, for example, Read the rest of this entry »

WikiTaxi takes Wikipedia offline by processing Wikipedia backups and providing a browser like experience. It works by downloading the article backup of the selected language from Wikipedia and importing that backup into Wikitaxi. It is compatible not only with Wikipedia but also with other parts like Wikibooks or Wikinews. Read the rest of this entry »

Windows only: Free application Game XP tweaks your computer’s performance by adjusting system settings, CPU priorities, and disabling unnecessary Windows services. As the name suggests, Game XP was developed with gaming in mind. It’s not an application you’ll run all the time, but if you’re launching a CPU-intense app—like a game, for example—Game XP makes quick tweaks to optimize your system and improve your Read the rest of this entry »

Akapost is an Email services provider that protects your own email addresses with an ingenious system. The senders email address is shown when emails are received. Akapost acts as an Exchange station between your computer and that of the recipient by exchanging your email address with a selected one from Akapost (via Archer and Anewmorning). Read the rest of this entry »