Another info packed post with some exciting news making waves in the technology world. 3G iPhone update Vista – uptake inevitable Twitter rising Javascript curvy corners Worthy mentions 3G iPhone update We have reported previously on speculation regarding the launch date of the 3G iPhone, now more information is starting to filter through. One hot [...]

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LifeHacker has a post up today for creating a live (encrypted) backup of Outlook Mail – Unfortunately Outlook isn’t great about backing up your PST file while Outlook is running, but Vinod has found a simple solution: Set a rule in Outlook to keep a separate copy of your incoming email in a separate PST [...]

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Syncplicity [LifeHacker] is a freeware, Windows only (currently) application which keeps folders and files on your computer synchronized across a network. Example uses include tasks such as Code: synchronize your code automatically between your home machine and work laptop without commiting it (to svn etc). Automatic backups: synchronize your important data to a backup machine [...]

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FastStone Capture is a screenshot taking and editing application. It allows you to take a screenshot of your desktop (or a portion of it) and edit that. For example, in the image below notes have been added and sections highlighted. LifeHacker points out that the latest version of this is no longer free, but the [...]

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Notepad2 is a notepad.exe replacement for Windows; with a whole lot more features. The key here is that its still very much a notepad – no huge memory usage, no long loading time, and its simple to use. “Get code syntax highlighting, regular expression search, better text selection options, and support for Unix and Mac-created [...]

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If you’re rocking dual (or triple/quad) monitors like the staff here at Entropy you’ll no doubt need to rock out some kicking wallpaper. Tips like making one an active desktop so you can have different backgrounds etc are just too 2007 for us – so we’ve found DisplayFusion. DisplayFusion is the ultimate dual-screen background tool, [...]

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LifeHacker has the uberlist on tweaks and apps to pimp your desktop out. There are some great ones for Mac and Windows actually, my personal favourite being the tip to embed text documents onto your desktop. For something that you look at every day of your working life, your computer desktop doesn’t get as much [...]

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So you’ve got yourself a nice little iPod; and now you can’t not get yourself Safari. Safari (if you don’t know) is Apple’s web browser – like IE, or Firefox. What you might not know though is that they try to force you to install it when you get your next iTunes update – here’s [...]

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Zemanta is (currently) a Firefox plugin which throws your blogging into overdrive – it automatically suggests and inserts images, links, related links and tags into your blog posts in (currently) WordPress (even 2.5), Blogger and TypePad. Oh, and we love it. Functionality Zemanta works exactly how you’d want it – without any changes to your [...]

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A.viary.com has an awesome article comparing its product to FotoFlexer, Splashup, Picnik and Adobe Photoshop Express. The biggest difference between Phoenix and the other online editors I tried was that Phoenix was created with the serious artist in mind whereas the others seemed to be geared more towards the casual user, the user who needs [...]

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