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Check this out if you want to save a few cents on your electric bill. I've been using it for a few weeks and it works pretty well. Even got my laptop with Vista to go to sleep even though nothing else could solve the no-sleep bug that I got with Vista. Your schedule and timings for power reduction too.

It's also helps with the environment but I'm really only interested in the green it can save in my pocket. ;-)

Drum Machine is a Windows app that allows you to play your Rock Band drums as if they are a real electronic drumset. Drum Machine uses input from the drumset to play "samples" that you assign to each pad. It comes with a few drum samples already, but you can add as many as you want (up to 1024), since they are simply WAV files. Drum Machine also allows you to record yourself, save it to file, and play it back or send it to a friend.

You can also play music in the background and play along. It works surprisingly well.

The Beta of Google Chrome is supposed to be available later this morning. I can't wait to see what they've come up with! For more information read the link below.

NewsLeecher :: Download binaries from the usenet with ease

Go and buy Newsleecher! It is by far the best usenet reader ever written. You can search all the newsgroups easily from within Newsleecher using the Super Search feature. As if that wasn't reason enough to buy it, it also manages all of the PAR2 fixes, RAR decompression and clean-up of the PAR and RAR files! All you are left with are the completed files.

If you need a decent news server you should check out Usenetserver.com. They offer unlimited downloads for about $13 a month. I've been using them for the past few years and overall I'm very happy.

Usenetserver.com - Home

This is part of a new ad campaign for Microsoft Home Server. Pretty clever for M$.


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I've been looking for a app that would take JPG files and move them to a dated folder structure for a long time. Adobe Lightshow can do it but it's expensive and slow. While searching around I came upon this little app. At first I was skeptical but damn was I wrong! It's simple, flexible and FAST! (if you are moving the files and not copying them at least)

It reads the EXIF data from the picture itself and places it into a folder structure that you can specify. It can also rename the files using the same configuration variables. I personally use YEAR -> MONTH for my folders and YEAR_MONTH_DAY for the filenames.

The only limitation is the number of files that you can drag in at one time. I have 150GB of photos and video clips that I've taken. If you try to drag in more than 3000 pictures at a time it tends to hang. So just do it in batches. It took me 1.5 hours to organize all of my pictures! AMAZING!

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WootAgent sits nested in the user’s system tray and will automatically pop up as Woot places a new item for sale on their website. WootAgent uses tabbed browsing to simplify and separate content based on importance: a tab displaying “Today’s Item,” a “Description” tab, and WootAgent’s special “Price Check” tab. WootAgent is almost completely customizable, giving the user the ability to see only the information most valuable to them.

Download page: WootAgent - Monitors Woot.com automatically giving you the upper hand

hymn :: View topic - myFairTunes6 v.0.2b - Windows C Port of QTFairUse6

There's a new program on the loose that removes the digital rights management (DRM) from Windows Media files. Called FairUse4WM, the Windows program strips the DRM'd from the targeted Windows Media file.

Read more: FairUse4WM Removes DRM From WMA Files - Gizmodo

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Royal TS download

Royal TS is an alternative for the standard Terminal Services Snap-In that adds additional features, including connection specific display settings, stored login credentials and more. It allows you to connect to any server which supports RDP protocol, and the connections can be organized in custom categories for quick access. Additional features include console connections (Windows XP/2003 or later), custom RDP target port, display smart sizing, port redirection and more.

While on the net I find some awesome freeware and shareware applications. I figured that I might as well start sharing them with you guys! I will apologize to the non-Windows folk out there... RAT

FastStone Screen Capture

FastStone Screen Capture is a screen capture utility with integrated image viewer. It enables you to capture Windows, objects, selections or the entire desktop, and apply additional editing tools like resizing, sharpening, and more. The capture can be sent to the image viewer, clipboard, or directly saved to file. You can also use the program as a full screen image viewer with EXIF support, resizing, rotating, cropping, and color adjustments, as well as customizable zoom viewer. FastStone Screen Capture supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.