Gigabyte’s GSmart Touch UI for Windows Mobile

Gigabyte has released a new touch-friendly interface for Windows Mobile phones. While the Smart Touch UI is designed to run on Gigabyte’s GSmart line of phones, an unofficial version of the software has been leaked and you can download it and install it on pretty much any Windows Mobile 5.0/6 device.
It’s hard not to compare [...]

Download O’ the Day: StarBurn

There are plenty of free CD/DVD burners for Windows, and to be honest we haven’t often been tempted to look beyond CDBurnerXP and InfraRecorder, which both seem to handle pretty much any tasks you can throw at them. The application can handle all of your basic tasks like burning data, audio, and video discs. It [...]

Download O’ the Day: PreviewConfig

PreviewConfig is a utility that gives Vista users the power to add file type support to the Explorer preview pane, which can be activated via “Organize.” Though the preview pane can be an interesting and useful feature of the OS, it really lacks in file support. It’s possible to add support for more without [...]

Download O’ the Day: RegToy

It used to be that you would need four or five different programs to optimize your system, clean the registry, rename files, capture screens, etc…
That was before RegToy.
RegToy is a freeware utility that is basically a collection of utilities. The program sidebar is broken up into three main categories: System, User, and Others.
The System section [...]

Fixing Vista’s Explorer Auto-Detection of Folder Types

One of the few things about Vista that just drives me crazy is the problems with Windows Explorer. I prefer to use “Details” mode for certain folders, but it seems like Vista constantly decides that the folder should show a different set of columns than what I had previously chosen.
The problem is that Vista “Auto-Detects” [...]

Download O’ the Day (Mac): InstallEase

Have you ever needed to install an application, complete with custom setup and preferences, onto a large number of machines? The free program InstallEase aims to help streamline this process (and keep you from reaching for the Tums).
InstallEase enables the user to create custom install packages for any application. Once the custom install package is [...]

Bookmark and Jump to Favorite Folders

How often do you open and save files on your computer? I’m sure that even the most casual users will do it several times throughout the day. Whether it be adding an attachment to an email, uploading a photo to a website, or simply saving a document you’ve been working on… opening and saving files [...]

Download O’ the Day: Dziobas RAR Player

Dziobas RAR Player is a media player with a couple of nice features, but one that stands out in particular: the ability to play an incomplete RAR file.
With videos that have been compressed as RAR files, you usually have to wait until the entire archive is downloaded before you can uncompress the file for playback. [...]

Download O’ the Day: BtProx - Locking Your Workstation with Your Cell Phone

This free, Windows-only, open source application BtProx locks your Windows computer whenever your cell phone or other Bluetooth device is out of range. If you’ve seen Blue Lock, it is similar to it, but BtProx includes a more advanced feature set thereby allowing you to set a timeout before it locks your PC and [...]

Customize Your Windows Vista Logon Screen

For those of us looking to customize the Windows Vista UI experience, there’s nothing more annoying than seeing the default logon screen every time you start up your computer, or when you lock your workstation. Thankfully the nice folks at Stardock have created a free utility to replace the logon screen with any wallpaper you [...]

Amazon Software Download Store Will Soon Include Video Games

A job posting on Gamasutra suggests Amazon will soon start a PC game download store to compliment Unbox, its video-on-demand service, and the site’s MP3 download store. The job posting asks programmer/engineers to apply to become a part of the Software and Video Games Digital Technology Team at Amazon, which is “responsible for digital distribution [...]

Download O’ the Day: JDownloader for RapidShare

If you download a lot of files from free file hosting sites like RapidShare and MegaUpload, but are tired of entering Captchas and waiting for your downloads to begin, jDownloader can help. jDownloader is a download manager that works with both sites, plus a few others. It lets you queue up a bunch of files [...]

Download O’ the Day: Spyware Terminator

Looking for a free spyware scanner with real-time spyware and virus protection? Look no further than Spyware Terminator.
Aside from the standard spyware scan, Spyware Terminator has some extra features not normally found in a free product:

Real-time protection that intercepts spyware before it installs
Includes antivirus protection, with an antivirus scanner and real-time protection
Web security guard ranks [...]

ByWiFi: Convert, Watch Videos On Your Mobile

There have often been times, while traveling for long, boring hours, that we’ve wished we had the means of downloading and watching popular videos on YouTube right in our mobile screen. For the most people, own largely 3gp-enabled phones, and the only way to watch videos on the fly is if the videos are pre-converted [...]

Slysoft Promises AnyDVD Will Crack Future HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Discs

There’s a cat and mouse game that goes on between those who produce professional videos and those who want to watch those videos on their own terms. Every time the folks behind DVDs, Blu-Ray discs, or HD-DVDs serve up a new DRM scheme, hackers go to work trying to figure out how to circumvent that [...]