Useful Freeware

Pepping Up Windows

I think he's missing Grisoft's AVG Antivirus program, but otherwise, very useful list of open source and freeware programs to replace the otherwise expensive options.

DivX Create for Free

DivX Video: Download DivX Software and the DivX Player

Here you go, videophiles. DivX Create is giving away their software ($20 value) today only...

Wireless WiFi

Vodafone introduces 3G mobile Wi-Fi Router

Now this is pretty cool...

Google Gets Bigger

RED HERRING | Google Claims Search Crown

Treo 700w

Windows Powered Palm

I get scared when they start talking about using a Windows OS to give a device MORE STABILITY! Either way, seeing a Treo without Palm is pretty cool...

Alt+Tab Upgrade

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP

I wasn't big on PowerToys until I found the Alt+Tab replacement. You know how you often have several Internet sites open and when you Alt+Tab to switch to another screen, you can tell which IE icon you need? Check out this Alt+Tab upgrade. It shows you a screenshot of what you're going to Alt+Tab to. VERY COOL! MUITO LEGAL for my Portuguese friends. ;-)

Disabling Cameras

Don't Take My Picture

Now this is pretty cool. Being able to keep people from taking photos with their digital cameras...

Video tombstone

First Coast News | Strange & Unusual - Coming Soon to a Tombstone Near You: Solar-Powered Video Panels

I'm totally getting one of these. :-)

Portable WiFi

Be Your Own Hotspot - Popular Science

Man, people think of everything. :-)

Yahoo News

Wired News: Yahoo Moves Into the Hot Zone

I know I certainly won't be getting my news from the Yahoos at Yahoo! :-) Now if Google started reporting the news, that might be a different story...

OneCare Service Now Open to the Public

Microsoft has been beta testing a new subscription service called OneCare that provides firewall, anti-virus, spyware detection/removal and backup functions all in one. Now the beta program has been opened to the public. To sign up, you'll need a Passport account. Point your Web browser to the Microsoft Beta site and sign in with your Passport username and password, then enter "OneCare" (without the quotation marks) in the guest ID field.

https://beta.microsoft.com/sign-in/signin.asp?refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fbeta%2Emicrosoft%2Ecom%2Fcontent%2Fbphome%2Easp%3F

Vista Features Revealed

Pre-PDC Exclusive: Windows Vista End-User Features Revealed

Seven versions of Vista? Give me a break! Well, just give me the Premium Professional Edition. :-)

A good trojan!

Trojan horse swaps porn for Koran passages

PCMover Software for free until Sep 15!

PCmover � Automatically move all programs, files and settings to a new PC

This software is really helpful if you dread moving to a new PC thanks to how long it will take you to reinstall programs, files, etc. Too bad I just did this with my new laptop unassisted...

What is eBay thinking?

eBay to buy Skype?

New iPods are announced

Wired News: ITunes Coming to a Phone Near You

The new Motorola iPod phone from Cingular isn't a flip phone. Come on, people! Interface (exactly like an iPod of course) looks pretty cool, though. We'll see if these things take off.

I'll stick with my iPod Photo 30GB for now, although a really thin iPod Nano looks appealing (once they can make them in the 30GB flavor)...

Gmail in Google Toolbar

Google Toolbar

If you're like me, you can't live without your Google Toolbar. In fact, it's one of the first things I install if I try to use the Internet on a PC that doesn't have one. IE just looks so naked without it! Anyway, they now have an add on to the toolbar that allows you to also use it to search your Gmail. You can already search the web, or froogle, or images just by pressing the appropriate button. This simply adds one more button that does your Gmail! Yes, Google Search does this as well, but this puts it up in the browser toolbar where you already spend a majority of your time!

Microsoft's new release dates:

Exclusive: Latest Windows Vista, Longhorn Server, WinFS, SQL Server 2005 Timelines Revealed

Before and After Katrina

Check out http://maps.google.com.  Do a search for New Orleans.  Zoom in a little, then click on Satellite.  This will give you a view of what New Orleans looked like before.  Now click on the new red button they added called Katrina.  That will show you the exact same shot, except with new satellite images after Katrina.  Pretty crazy.  You can zoom in pretty far, too.  One of the places I zoomed into looked like a horse racing track with lots of horse barns around it.  Makes you wonder what happened to the horses...

For those of you with Google Earth

Check out Katrina's devastation. Google's official blog post tells the story.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/seeing-what-katrina-has-wrought.html

$2 Domains?!?!

Domain Name Registration from Yahoo! Small Business

Wow, I have to say I'm impressed. It's sad, but I'm officially a Yahoo! Small Business Customer now. I was looking to register www.cornerstonemen.com and then I see this SlickDeal. $1.99/year for up to 5 years. I pointed the nameservers to my www.1and1.com account and I'm all set. Pretty incredible deal if you're looking to grab a domain name...