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AIM for Windows Mobile brings AOL's instant-messaging service to compatible smartphones. The free app lets you manage your Buddy List, customize your AIM status, use emoticons, and engage in multiple conversations simultaneously -- in short, just about everything you can do in the desktop versio...
The new Zoho Share aggregates all your Zoho documents into a single location for easier sharing and publishing. Normally, if you want to share a Zoho Writer document with a client or co-worker, you have to launch the Web-based word processor, load the document, and then take the usual steps to sh...
As of August 16, you can saunter on through airport security without first unpacking your laptop -- provided it's packed in the right kind of bag. Ah, but what constitutes the right kind? The Transportation Security Administration (TSA to you and me) posted a page of guidelines regarding checkpoint-...
The CMS 160GB EasyEncrypt Drive Upgrade Kit replaces your old hard drive with a new, encrypted one, and even lets you keep the old drive around for external storage. Sounds like a good solution -- except for the $299 price tag. Here's how you can accomplish the same thing for under $90. The CMS k...
Sure, Excel can turn your data into nice-looking charts and graphs, but Widgenie takes it to the next level. Widgenie imports data from Excel and CSV files, then lets you create attractive, animated charts. These in turn become widgets you can embed and share in places like Facebook, WordPress, and...
The new Send to Docs extension for Firefox opens online documents in your Google Docs account, where you can view, save, print, share, and so on. After installing the extension, simply right-click any document link on any Web page, then choose Send to Google Docs from the context menu. In a flas...
Jott for Outlook lets you create new tasks, appointments, and even e-mails using only your voice. It's a new (and fantastic) addition to my beloved Jott, but it comes at a price: To use it, you must subscribe to one of the service's new subscription plans. Fear not, freebie lovers: There's still ...
One sudden burst of gravity can ruin an iPhone owner's day. The Speck SeeThru hard-shell case offers drop protection, rubberized side grips (so you're less likely to drop it in the first place), and a clever two-piece design. Pop off the bottom of the case to sync your iPhone or prop it up for movie...
If you've got a Blackberry, you can now read the Wall Street Journal for free. In a nice reversal for a newspaper that seems to pride itself on hiding its best stuff behind a pay wall, the WSJ has worked up a simple and useful app for Blackberry users that quickly lets readers scan article blurbs, r...
If Paint.NET is the freeware answer to Photoshop and Creative Docs .NET to Illustrator, then Artweaver might just be the freeware answer to Corel Draw. It bills itself as a "program to simulate natural brush tools," meaning it's designed as much for creating images as it is for manipulating them. ...
From the software labs at Microsoft comes pptPlex, a PowerPoint 2007 plug-in that provides a new (and improved? You be the judge) way of presenting slides. Here's the scoop: This plug-in allows you to arrange slides on a canvas then zoom between the slides during the presentation. You can move arou...
One of Firefox 3's best new features is the "bookmark star" that appears at the right end of the address bar: Click it once to instantly bookmark the current page, or twice to assign a name, folder, and tags. Tagmarks enhances Firefox's one-click bookmarking by displaying multiple "tag" icons wh...
Sending a Word file, Excel spreadsheet, or the like as a file attachment seems harmless enough -- unless the file contains hidden data you didn't know about or didn't know enough to remove. Outlook plug-in SendShield analyzes outbound file attachments, alerts you to any hidden data it finds, and pr...
Remember Yapta, the site that helps you get a refund on airfare if the rate drops after you buy your tickets? My only real complaint with the service is that you have to call the airline yourself to get the refund -- a time-consuming and potentially aggravating process. Now Yapta can handle this ch...
Hofstadter's law of planning states, "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account." Merlin Mann of 43 Folders claims that there's no known reason for why we tend to be overly optimistic about our planning, but notes that the more detailed our visualiz...
