In my quest for legal downloads I stumbled on Legal Sounds. The website offers a legal way of getting music files from the internet. At this point, only iTunes has been the most popular and consistently used music download service.
Legal Sounds requires users to download its proprietary Downloader and load up the application with the preferred balance using credit card payment options. It also accepts e-Gold.
Legal Sounds has the makings of being a good contender in the legal music download service market because of its no-fuss way of providing its service.
Tags: iTunes, Legal Sounds
Categories: Applications, Downloading Legally, Paid Service
If you have a widescreen monitor I’m sure you’ve wondered at some point how you can maximize the extra virtual real estate that it provides. If you’re like me then you’d consider getting TreeStyle Tab extension for Firefox.
The free extension lets you move your tab list from the left or right of the screen. Actually, you can even place it at the top or the bottom if you choose. This customization allows you to take advantage of space and giving you a personalized way of surfing using tabs.
I won’t lie. It’s a little disorienting at first, and I found myself still mousing to the top of my Firefox window from time to time, but it’s definitely a nice change now that I’m used to it. As an added bonus, stretching the tab bar to fill more of the blank space mean seeing more informative - or at least longer - titles than you would with the Liliputian default tabs.
Right-clicking the tabs allows to to expand and collapse all tab trees, and you can, of course, still drag-and-drop your tabs to re-order them.
I prefer the simplicity of TreeStyle, but if you’re looking for a more feature-rich solution you may want to try Tabextensions 3. It’s got a few more tricks up it’s sleeve, like thumbnail previews and performing actions on multiple tabs.
Tags: Firefox, Mozilla
Categories: Applications
I recently downloaded Foxmarks to my Firefox browsers at both my desktop and laptops. Let me tell you, I am a very satisfied user.
Foxmarks allows you to sync the bookmarks between computers. This abilit makes it easier to manage multiple computers that you use. Any changes made in one computer is reflected in other computers that you use. What’s more Foxmarks now has the ability to save and sync your passwords. As a security, you need to input a pin to secure the password list.
Tags: Firefox, Foxmarks
Categories: Applications
It was announced that the preview of Camino 2.0 has been released.
Camino is an emerging star in the Mac environment. It is a browser that is increasingly being preferred by a growing number of users over Firefox and Safari. Camino uses Gecko like Firefox but its emphasis is on speed rather than extensibility.
One of Camino 2.0’s new features is the tab overview mode that shows the thumbnails of the tabs active on the browser. This makes managing a huge number of tabs easier. The browser history now also shows a list of recently closed pages.
Tags: browser, Camino
Categories: Applications
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is not my favorite browser. I just find it a little clunky and hard to personalize. But RepairIE is one app that may make me relook IE again.
The 500kb utility has five tabs that help you administer IE in a way that is easy to do and understand. You can configure IE’s appearance, features, network connections, search and security through a simple yes/no interface. The sheer number of customizable options makes this an indispensable tool if you’re an Internet Explorer user.
Tags: Internet Explorer, RepairIE
Categories: Applications
People who love to download stuff on the internet are usually faced with a common problem. They usually run out of hard drive space without them knowing it.
that’s why Tray Disk Free is such a great app to have. This application is only 29k and a windows only software. What it does after installation is to go resident in your system and monitor all of the drives in a system. It only consumes a megabyte of RAM.
By clicking the tray icon, you’ll see the main window pop up. The taskbar button allows you to see a full display of all the free space on your hard drive as well as the percentage of total drive space.
Tray Disk has the ability to support command line arguments that allow you to specify which drives to monitor, the display bar color as well as the number of seconds before it updates again. You can actually open multiple instances of the application so you can monitor multiple drives at the same time.
You can download Tray Disk Free on this link. This app is for Windows only. A reminder to Windows vista owners. You will have to put the MSVBVM50.dll on the same folder as the executable of Tray Disk.
Tags: Hard Drive, Tray Disk Free
Categories: Applications
Listeners to Last.Fm who wish they can also download the songs that they listen to can now do so with LastSharp.
You will have to have a rudimentary knowledge of German though.
The download link to the app is located right below the Aktuelle Version text, which leads to Rapidhsare or download mirrors. No installation is needed, all you need is to extract the rar’ed file. Another requirement is for .Net 2.0 to run on your PC.
The app, though in German, can be changed to show English by clicking the Erweiterte Einstellungen tab. All you need to do to use LastSharp is to use your Las.Fm username and password and use the search function. Just check the songs you want to download and you’re done.
This is one nifty tool that will definitely increase your Mp3 collection.
Tags: Last.Fm, LastSharp
Categories: Applications
Google Calendar users will surely appreciate the GCal Popup extension for Firefox.
Upon installing the add-on, you will see a calendar icon in the status bar. When you click it, Google Calendar will pop up over any tab that you’re browsing. When you want to get rid of the pop, just click the close button.
This is a great solution for Google Calendar users who do not want to open a new tab just to open the calendar.
Tags: Firefox, Google Calendar
Categories: Applications
The news over Google Chrome has hardly cooled down but there’s already a new “fastest browser in town.”
Minefield is getting raves even with just its alpha release. Before you count it as another new entrant, Minefield is actually an early build of the next version of Firefox. The newly improved javascript engine has made it significantly faster. Purportedly it is even ten percent faster than Google Chrome.
You can test Minefield for yourself by downloading it at this link.
Tags: Minefield
Categories: Applications
Google continues its commitment with the mobile platform with the release of Gmail for mobile 2.0.
Gmail for Mobile can be used on Blackberry phones as well as all J2ME phones.
The updated app now offers offline support, which allows you to read and compose email messages even when there is no signal. Composed messages are automatically put in the outbox and sent as soon as there is a signal.
There is also multiple account support, which will benefit those with multiple Gmail or Google Apps accounts.
Download the latest version at http://m.google.com/mail.
Tags: Gmail, Mobile
Categories: Applications
