Smartr Contacts: A Better Address Book for Android, iPhone, and Blackberry
Smartr Contacts, is a comprehensive contact book that automatically integrates with your social networks and other communication tools, turning your contacts into organized profiles. I have always disliked my iPhone contact book. It is really outdated and doesn’t do anything special other than, well, store contacts.
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Glass Houses: In Defense of CNET’s Secure Software Installer, and the Irony of Ad-Supported Critics
Ghacks criticizes Cnet’s software installer and promotes a user script that replaces its Secure Software Installer links with direct download links, but ignores the obvious and ironic: Download.
How to Create Secure Passwords
Your guide to creating and using secure passwords online Every Internet user has at least one, but very few know how to use them properly.
Less Is More: An Indictment of Hyper-Differentiation.
How the world has changed, and why flooding the market with endless product variations no longer provides value. Bold, Incredible, Invincible, Hero, Titan. These are words not to be ascribed lightly.
How to Watch NBA Basketball Games Online for Free
Handy guide for watching just about any NBA basketball game online for free so that you’ll never have to worry about paying for cable TV or whether or not your favorite team’s games will be televised in your area.
10 Alternatives to BTJunkie
A compilation of 10 alternative top torrent sites and search engines to use now that BtJunkie has decided to voluntarily shut down for good.
Guides & How To's
How to Create Secure Passwords
Your guide to creating and using secure passwords online Every Internet user has at least one, but very few know how to use them properly.
10 Alternatives to BTJunkie
A compilation of 10 alternative top torrent sites and search engines to use now that BtJunkie has decided to voluntarily shut down for good.
How to Master Email Encryption
Keep your personal data safe by taking the time to encrypt your emails. With the government threatening to do all kinds of things to the internet, and stories about email and phone hacking surfacing all over the world, there’s never been a better time to start protecting your online privacy.
How to Connect Your Android Phone or Tablet to a PPTP VPN
Quick and easy guide to configuring your Android phone or tablet to connect to a PPTP-type VPN connection. The Internet always has and always will be plagued by challenges to content access and data security, and one of the of the easiest solutions around is a VPN connection.
VPN Setup Guide: VPNHQ
Guide to setting up a VPN account with VPNHQ, and protecting your data and Internet traffic from identity thieves, overzealous copyright holders, and govt filtering regimes for $7 dollars a month. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) has never been more important it seems.
Apps & Mobile
Smartr Contacts: A Better Address Book for Android, iPhone, and Blackberry
Smartr Contacts, is a comprehensive contact book that automatically integrates with your social networks and other communication tools, turning your contacts into organized profiles. I have always disliked my iPhone contact book.
5 Free iPad Entertainment Apps
A list of free iPad entertainment apps covering TV shows, movies, books and music. Smaller than a laptop and bigger than a cell phone, the iPad is a perfectly-sized portable entertainment device. It might not play Flash files, but plenty of apps will keep you entertained in or away from the home.
TiltShift Generator: Free Desktop App for Adding TiltShift Effects to Your Photos
TiltShift is an Adobe Air app for Mac, Windows and Linux that gives offers a simple set of controls for quickly adding cool and amazing TiltShift effects to your photographs.
Tribler: BitTorrent Client that Doesn’t Need Tracker Sites, Can’t Be Shut Down
Tribler is, as the developers claim, “designed to keep BitTorrent alive, even when all torrent search engines, indexes and trackers are pulled offline,” and can only be shut down if you “take down the Internet” itself.
iSnooze Uses iTunes to Turn Your PC Into an Alarm Clock
Program lets you schedule times for iTunes to wake you from your slumber, complete with spacebar-activated snooze function.
BitTorrent
uTorrent Tiny Client: Chrome Extension to Remotely Control Your Downloads
Google Chrome extension adds the uTorrent Web UI to your browser, giving you virtually complete control of your downloads on the go – even streaming playback! As an avid BitTorrent user there’s nothing more important than being able to control my downloads on the go.
Share: BitTorrent App Simplifies Personal File-Sharing
Standalone personal media sharing app makes it easy to share movies, pictures, music and other content with family and friends. Never one to rest on its laurels, BitTorrent Inc. is once again trying to reshape P2P file-sharing with the release of Share, a unlimited personal media sharing app.
uTorrent Remote Optimized for the iPad
New interface designed for a “great touch experience” on the iPad; gives users the same functionality already available on the PC-based uTorrent remote. BitTorrent Inc. is definitely taking the influx of Apple products seriously.
uTorrent, BitTorrent Mainline for Mac Get Stable Versions
Mac users finally get to enjoy the some of the same functions and features that their PC counterparts have for years. A stable uTorrent for Mac BitTorrent client has been more than three years making.
Porn Industry Sues the Blind
He’s one of thousands in the lawsuit campaign against file-sharers, but he seems to be an unlikely candidate. He’s legally blind and too busy with his personal life to secure his WiFi connection.
Gadgets & Technology
Less Is More: An Indictment of Hyper-Differentiation.
How the world has changed, and why flooding the market with endless product variations no longer provides value. Bold, Incredible, Invincible, Hero, Titan. These are words not to be ascribed lightly.
How to Watch NBA Basketball Games Online for Free
Handy guide for watching just about any NBA basketball game online for free so that you’ll never have to worry about paying for cable TV or whether or not your favorite team’s games will be televised in your area.
The Future of the Smartphone: How Things Will Change in 5 Years
5 features that will revolutionize your smartphone in the next 5 years. Stop for a moment. Reach into your pocket and pull out your phone. Take a long hard look at it.
Mark Zuckerberg: Of Rejection, And The $100 Billion Last Laugh
How Social Ineptitude And Rejection Brought Mark Zuckerberg To Where He Is Today “Mark, I’m not speaking in code,” says an exasperated Erica (Rooney Mara) to a pre-Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, just prior to dumping him.
100% Apple: How the Tech Giant is Both the 99% and the 1%
Despite a wave of populist anger at corporate profits and income inequality, Apple has managed massive success without angering the masses. This week Apple announced its 1Q12 earnings, which can best be described as staggering. The Cupertino giant hauled in an unprecedented $13.
Music
Pandora for Chrome: Control Pandora Music Stream in Browser Toolbar
Pandora for Chrome browser extension allows users to rate, pause, change tracks in their Pandora stream without having to open Pandora.com.
Music2pc: Find, Download Millions of Songs Online for Free – Even at Work!
Free program with no ads, spyware, or malware of any kind allows users to search among more than 100 million MP3s online and download them to a computer or USB drive for free; program can also run from a USB drive, making it safe to use at work.
Last.fm Free Music Player: Chrome Extension for Playing Music On-Demand
Last.fm Free Music Player lets you stream songs by your favorite artists on-demand right from within your Chrome browser. Want an easy way to play music by your favorite artist on-demand without having to listen to poor quality YouTube videos? Then the Last.
Splash.FM : The Social Network for Discovering New Music
New site uses the power of social networking to help discover and share good music with family, friends and others.
Spotify Launches in the US
Reports are surfacing that Spotify, a popular legal streaming service offered in Europe, has traveled across the pond to set up shop in the United States. There’s an interesting report on CNet that says that Spotify is now being offered in the US.