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Subtitle Search Aids In Finding Movie Subtitles

We have reviewed our fair share of subtitle downloaders in the past from applications like Subs Grabber and Sub Downloader to sophisticated programs like Renaissance that can scan a local directory for movies...

Facebook Password Reset Confirmation Scam

Popular software programs and online services are more likely to be targeted by malicious users than less popular services. Facebook is currently the most popular social networking service on the Internet and security...

Hotmail Watcher Notifies Of New Hotmail Emails In Firefox

If you perform a search for notifiers on the Internet you usually find lots of notifiers for Google services such as Gmail but not so many for comparably popular services from other...

Pageaddict Monitors Time Spent On Individual Websites

Monitoring the time that is spent online can be useful for some users. Most applications and browser plugins provide basic time monitoring options that basically record the time spent online as well as...

Blacklist Google Search Results In Google Chrome

Google Blacklist allows Google Chrome users to blacklist specific domains or pages from appearing in the Google search results. This can be helpful in situations where results from a website should not appear...

MakeUseOf.com

How To Completely & Securely Erase Your Hard Drive [Windows]

Take a moment and think about all of the sensitive data kept on your computer.  Account passwords, addresses, phone numbers, access to bank accounts and other financial services, and maybe even your social...

Top 3 Websites To Build A Free Resume Online

When you’re looking for a job, you don’t have a lot of chances to catch the interest of a potential employer. After the cover letter, the curriculum vitae (CV) or resume is...

Feed Readers – Web Apps Or Desktops Apps? Which Is Better?

The debate still continues.  Do you prefer using web based applications or software installed directly on your computer?  In past articles we’ve covered word processors and Twitter clients.  In this article I will...

10 Cool Websites For Teenagers Who Want to Stand Out

How do kids teens stand out in the digital age? The create, share, empower, serve, and believe...

FeelHome: Remotely Access All Your Files From Anywhere

If you want to have all your data with you at all times, you could carry an external hard drive. You could also take your laptop everywhere. You could even set up...

Download Squad

Google Analytics to allow per-user opt-out

Filed under: Google, Browsers, Op-Ed Lovers of privacy and of "not doing evil", rejoice! The Google Analytics team just announced they are working on a browser-based opt-out mechanism. In simple terms, this...

Windows 7 SP1 details outed: try to contain your excitement

Filed under: OS Updates, Windows There's been talk floating around for quite some time about the coming of Windows 7 SP1. Today, we've got some details...

DLS @ SXSW - Impressions of SXSWi part deux

Filed under: sxsw Say hello to Sunny Thaper, production director...

8 reasons to love furries, and more, on Linkbait Generator

Filed under: Blogging, Humor I'm going to file this one under "social commentary", actually. Linkbait Generator is a pretty interesting tool I found over at the always-interesting MakeUseOf. It does...

Dream Desktop downloads, cycles your favorites from 5,000 beautiful wallpaper images

Filed under: Fun, Windows Like having a stash of beautiful wallpaper images on your computer? Dream Desktop has several thousand to choose from,...

TechCrunch

SeeWhy Aims To Optimize Website Conversions Through Email, Social Media

Andover, MA-based website conversion company SeeWhy today launched Conversion Manager, an automated web analytics service that allows publishers and e-commerce companies to optimize website conversion rates through real-time 'remarketing' campaigns. The company claims that...

CloudCrowd Takes On CrowdFlower To Outsource Labor To The Cloud

TechCrunch50 startup CrowdFlower has been attracting a lot of attention, even raising $5 million in funding recently. CrowdFlower is a labor as a service startup that helps businesses outsource mundane or repetitive tasks...

Looks Like 123people Has Been Acquired By France’s Yellow Pages

According to investir.fi and various other sources, the world's leading people search engine 123people, which strives from Austria, has been acquired by the leading french yellow pages company PagesJaunes. The company was...

Techmeme Firehose

"Piracy" sounds too sexy, say rightsholders (Nate Anderson/Ars Technica)

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: “Piracy” sounds too sexy, say rightsholders — For years, we've heard complaints about using the term “piracy”...

Updated: UMG To Launch U.S. Pricing Test (Billboard.Biz)

Billboard.Biz: Updated: UMG To Launch U.S. Pricing Test — The Universal Music Group could rewrite U.S. music pricing when it tests a...

Zynga Was PayPal's Second-Largest Merchant in 2009 (Chris Morrison/Inside Social Games)

Chris Morrison / Inside Social Games: Zynga Was PayPal's Second-Largest Merchant in 2009 — A surprising fact came up at last...

Yelp Goes On the Offensive About Filtering (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Digits)

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits: Yelp Goes On the Offensive About Filtering — As reported by the Journal, the reviews Web site...

Pay to Play: Some iPhone App Sites Demand Money for Reviews (Brian X. Chen/Gadget Lab)

Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab: Pay to Play: Some iPhone App Sites Demand Money for Reviews — If you can't pitch the press,...

Lifehacker

Best Offline Backup Tool? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]

Online backup is great for keeping a copy of your data in a remote location, but it's expensive and you're limited by the...

Remains of the Day: "Piracy" Sounds Too Sexy Edition [For What It's Worth]

The people who originally branded file sharers as pirates get upset that the so-called pirates aren't more upset, Googler...

MagnoGrip Holds Extra Nails, Screws, and More to Your Wrist [Stuff We Like]

Hey you—you with the nails sticking out of your mouth while you're pounding away with your hammer. The relatively inexpensive MagnoGrip magnetic wristband holds...

How to Launch the Recycle Bin from the Start Menu Search Box [Windows Tip]

If you've started using the Start Menu search box as your primary application launcher, you've may have come across a weird annoyance: By default,...

Store Batteries in the Freezer to Retain Charge Longer [Batteries]

Storing batteries at freezing or near freezing temperatures will greatly extend the amount of time they hold a charge, but only for some kinds...