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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 link below is for the “handily portable freeware version“, which is.

FastStone Capture Freeware v5.3

If you’ve followed our post to a jailbroken iPod Touch (if not just follow the link) you’ll now have the requirements to be running Mail, Notes and a bunch of other iPhone applications on your iPod Touch!.

“The Simplehelp weblog details how to save $20 and roll a DIY install of the once iPhone-only applications Mail, Google Maps, Stocks, Weather, and Notes on your iPod touch.”

Lifehacker goes on to say “Then you just add a new source to the Installer.app repositories and proceed to install any of the iPhone or pre-1.1.2 iPod touch apps your heart desires.”

For the full guide, see Simplehelp.

Ever wished GMail had themes? Well it doesn’t, but now you can theme it yourself? If you like the kicking view to the left be sure to pay a visit to UserStyles for the GreaseMonkey script. LifeHacker has promised to include it (once done) in Better GMail so you can optionally wait for that.

Everything in the Gmail Redesigned interface is darker and a touch sleeker than the default Gmail interface, which hasn’t changed all that much since Gmail launched four years ago today. Right now the developer is issuing updates to this style almost every day.

Image by stephee via Flickr

Ever wanted to be sure that someone you were sending a link to knew it was Not Suitable For Work? Incase you’re an internet newbie, NSFW is an easy way of telling someone not to open something when there are prying eyes around - e.g. at work. NSFW.in has taken it to the next level! More at LifeHacker.

Image from Wikipedia

There are a lot of reasons to run a slim Windows install; using less space because you only need the essentials for VMWare Fusion as LifeHacker suggests - perhaps performance reasons. But either way, LifeHacker has a great guide on doing it with nLite; GameXP and more.

That means that the virtual machine will run more quickly and take up fewer resources on my Mac.

On the other hand, a lightweight Windows install is also perfect for older hardware that just can’t keep up with XP. In fact, your hardware doesn’t even have to be that bad to still enjoy benefits of this process. A slimmed down Windows install is also appealing for the performance gains it affords, because it allows your computer to allocate more memory and resources to individual programs rather than the operating system as a whole.

Read more at LifeHacker.

Ever wanted to watch Starwars in ASCII? No? Well now you can anyway; just type “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl” and get the popcorn as the shows about to begin!

Via LifeHacker