Lifehacker has a nice list of their favorite free apps and online services. They have a list of 20 categories of common computing tasks, with links.
Check it out: Lifehacker’s 2007 Guide to Free Software and Webapps

Remember when 30 was the magic number for distrust? Now, for copyright holders, it seems the opposite is true.
David Pogue, NY Times technology guru, has a really interesting column today about copying CDs or DVDs and file-sharing. It appears there is a major generational divide between older consumers who believe it is only OK under […]

And I don’t mean “ho” as in the Santa expression of mirth.
If you’re looking for a video game for the kids or grandkids (and that’s probably what they want this year,) it’s pretty easily to go astray. Many of the games heavily promoted are full of violence, sex and digitally-reproduced profanity. Frankly, many of them […]

Clipmarks has introduced an interesting, if curious, new feature called Clipcast. You bookmark things you’ve been reading online, add them to an embeddable slide show and put them on your site for all to see what you’ve been doing. Works on Facebook, MySpace, etc. as well.
At first I really wondered why you’d want to […]

Google Docs, etc. are beginning to change the way users think about applications. Now, instead of an OS-dedicated application that runs from your desktop (and costs hundreds of dollars), you can do many of the same jobs online through your browser…regardless of the platform you use. That’s a good thing.
What hasn’t been so good is […]

There are almost countless default start pages out there. Most have the capability of being customized to the point of unreadability. And many of them try to present too much information on the page, when all I want is a directory.
Well, here’s one solution: Symbaloo. Like many earlier start pages, it’s really just a bunch […]

Traditional TV will continue to be the dominant advertising medium over the next five years, although broadband will continue to make significant headway, according to a survey of 270 media executives, conducted by Myers Publishing and underwritten by video monitor Teletrax.
Take a quick read of the Hollywood Reporter article here.
Not that I totally disagree, but […]