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YouTorrent, your new favorite Bitorrent site

Tony — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:15:03 +0000

Searching public BitTorrent sites for that special torrent can be challenging, particularly if you’re looking for something more obscure. Web site YouTorrent simplifies the process by searching for torrents across the most popular BitTorrent sites in real-time, then dynamically returning and sorting the results by number of seeds. YouTorrent’s results are fast and its pages are ad-free (for now). YouTorrent is reminiscent of previously mentioned Scrape Torrent, which does the same thing but has since turned into a pop-up blocker’s nightmare. For the time being, YouTorrent is an excellent place to start your BitTorrent searches.

[via Lifehacker.com, YouTorrent and TorrentFreak]

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Backup all your emails quickly

Tony — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:23:33 +0000

Have you ever lose your email because of the your disk crash or for some other reason. Not any more now you can quickly and easily take backup of your emails with MailStore Home.

MailStore Home is a free windows app that allows you to take backup of emails from most of the desktop clients, POP3 or IMAP accounts.

With this app you can keep unlimited number of emails and attachments in one archive. It saves only one instance of the email attachment even it appears more than once. You can search emails including contents and attachments. One click backup to CD or DVD is available.

3 Sites To Help You Save Money Online

Tony — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:02:59 +0000

clipped from consumerist.com

PriceSpider works much like WishRadar that we mentioned last week, except PriceSpider focuses exclusively on electronics, and searches more sites. You choose the product and set a target price, and when it sees that price somewhere online, it sends you an alert.

PriceProtectr will help you take advantage of any price-matching guarantees at 72 different stores. “If we notice the price drop any time within the price protection period, we’ll send an email your way (and we’ll keep sending them if the price keeps dropping).”

The founder of Spendfish has a collection of deal-related websites posted on his personal blog. It’s a great place to start if you’re not sure where else to look.

“A Universe of Gadget Advice” [New York Times]

Breathe New Life into your Old Gadgets

Tony — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:34:57 +0000

clipped from lifehacker.com

With all the buying that goes on this time of year, our aging gadgets seem older, more out-of-date, and just plain obsolete in the face of all the shiny new toys glimmering on the display rack—which, of course, is part of what motivates us to pry open our wallets for newer and better stuff. But this year, instead of forking over more cash to the likes of Jobs and Gates for their newest toys, we’re taking a look at several ways to make your old gadgets new again. From the iPod and Xbox to a run-of-the-mill PC, chances are you’ve got something lying around the house that could use a free or cheap upgrade.

Flickr releases new Uploadr 3.0

Tony — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:45:50 +0000

clipped from mashable.com

After about a month of beta testing the new Flickr Uploadr 3.0, the software is finally available for download in its complete and official package. Get it here. We first caught wind of the new Uploadr last month, when public beta testing began.You may remember that the big ado in regards to this latest version is its ability to tweak, rearrange, modify, tag and organize your images before uploading them to the site. It gives you far more control over your pictures, and minimizes the amount of editing time you need to do online, once you’ve in fact added the images to your Flickr account.

NewzNozzl Aggregates Digg, Reddit, etc.

Tony — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:59:02 +0000

clipped from mashable.com

Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us. They have the meta-data that we all love. And most of you out there have feeds for all three of these social bookmarking sites (and then some), so you can keep track of the top stories across the board. What NewzNozzl wants to do is take the meta-meta data from the top social bookmarking sites, and make its own version of a people-powered voting system. This means that you can’t submit directly to NewzNozzl, but it does pull the top stories from the top bookmarking sites.

Download DivX Pro for free

Tony — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:42:01 +0000

clipped from www.labnol.org

The DivX 6 Bundle contains everything you need to create and play DivX videos on a PC or a Mac – that includes the DivX Player, DivX Pro codec and DivX Converter.The DivX converter compresses the size of your home video files and DVD movies without much affecting the quality. And the DivX Codec ensures that you can play those DivX movies in any of favorite media players.This DivX Create bundle costs $20 but you can have it for free during the holiday season.

Step 1: Download DivX Pro at divx.com [Select the Mac or Windows version]

Step 2: You can either share your email address with DivX to get your own serial number for DivX Converter or if you don’t want to receive DivX offers in future, just use the following serial numbers:

For Windows: A3NI9M7P47B325A52C26
For Mac: 338BSZ759249T26B2M9E

Click Register and you are done. Thanks Channel9.

DownloadSquad – Create and track invoices online

Tony — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:00:49 +0000

clipped from www.downloadsquad.com

There are plenty of ways for small business owners to create and track invoices. You could just fill out a Word template every time you need to bill a client, or you could use free software like Microsoft Accounting Express or QuickBooks Simple Start. But as with everything these days, there are also online solutions.

Invoice Journal is a simple web site that lets you create and track your invoices. There’s a simple form for entering new clients, and another for sending invoices to those clients. Easy as pie.

Invoice Journal lacks some of the bells and whistles you’d get with a more complex service like FreshBooks. There’s no time tracking feature for example. But sometimes you want a service that does one thing and does it well.

If Invoice Journal doesn’t do it for you, we’ve also looked at Invotrak, another free invoicing startup, that quite frankly, works pretty much the same was as Invoice Journal.

[via makeuseof]

Consumerist.com – Find out what your IRS refund will be

Tony — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:09:32 +0000

clipped from consumerist.com

What’s your tax refund for 2007 going to look like? Go to this withholding calculator at the IRS website with your paycheck at your side, answer the questions, and they’ll give you a good estimate of what your refund will be. They will also give you suggestions for changing your withholdings.

Lifehacker – How to track down anyone online

Tony — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:59:52 +0000

clipped from lifehacker.com

When you’re trying to find someone online, Google’s not the only game in town. In the last two years, a handful of new people search engines have come onto the scene that offer better ways to pinpoint people info by name, handle, location, or place of employment. While there’s still no killer, one-stop people search, there are more ways than ever to track down a long-lost friend, stalk an ex, or screen a potential date or employee. The next time you wonder, “What ever happened to so-and-so?” you’ve got a few power people search tools to turn to.