Take Reddit Out of the Browser With These 7 Desktop Reddit Clients [Windows]
Do you love Reddit's content, but wish it was organized differently? Try out a Reddit client for Windows. These third-party programs arrange the content you already love in a way you just might find yourself preferring – subreddits in columns, notifications in your system tray or a quick summary what's going on just a popup window away. Advanced features even deliver text-only versions of articles and automatically pull down images.
Collusion Watches the Watchers - Find Out Who's Tracking You Online [Firefox]
Track the sites that are tracking you. Collusion is a free extension for Firefox that records every time you're tracked online, so you can see who is tracking you and try to work out why. The Mozilla Foundation says the extension is intended to help teach users about online tracking. "Not all tracking is bad," says Collusion's site at Mozilla.org "but most tracking happens without users' consent and without their knowledge".
Google Reader's End Is Nigh: Prepare With These Alternative RSS Readers
Google Reader is dead. By July the Internet's premier RSS service is shutting down forever, leaving users to find a replacement on their own. If you're looking for an equivalent to Google these are just a few of the web's best alternatives to Google Reader – one of them is bound to be right for you. If not, wait: we're sure others will be built in the months to come.
How To Use Skype As Your Main Home Phone Line
It's 2013 - stop paying for a land line. If you've got broadband Internet you can set up Skype, pay for a subscription and and keep your total home phone bill under $5 a month – long distance to phones throughout North America included (rates vary for other countries). Kannon showed you how to save hundreds on your mobile phone bill in three easy steps, and Skype can save the day with its cheap long-distance plans.
Watch TV Shows on XBMC With These Add-Ons
Do you love TV? Then you also love XBMC, even if you don't know it yet. The ultimate media center software offers a wide variety of ways for you to catch up with your favorite shows online, legal and otherwise. Set up a few plugins and you can watch whatever you want in a couple of clicks, from the comfort of your couch. Legally watching TV shows can be insanely complicated, depending on where you live.
Technologies Predicted To Redeem Or Destroy Society & What They Teach Us About The Web
The Internet makes censorship impossible and will bring down corrupt regimes around the world. It will lead to an era of absolute transparency, which will inevitably lead to more equality and more justice. Disagree? Try this, then - the Internet means none of us need to know anything, because we can look anything up in a matter of moments. We're all becoming stupid because the machines do all of our thinking for us. Which of these arguments are correct?
Focus@Will: A Streaming Service Designed To Help You Stay On Task
Try out a music streaming site specifically designed to help you work. Focus@Will is a new streaming music service, currently in beta, created to help you focus on the task at hand. If your mind tends to wander this could help. You might have that one album that helps you think, that helps you create. You're not sure why, but when you put it on you're able to focus more than you otherwise could.
RetroArch Emulates NES, Playstation, Gameboy Color/Advance And A Whole Lot More [Android]
Stop messing around with various emulators for your Android and get RetroArch. This single app – a front end for multiple emulators – can run games designed for anything from the NES to the Sega Genesis to the original PlayStation. Even better: you can get it right now from Google Play, no jailbreak required.
How To Download Your Google Reader Feeds As An EPUB Or MOBI File
Download your Google Reader feeds – or the individual RSS feed of any website – as an ebook. NewsToeBook is a free service that connects to your Google Account, downloads any feed you like and even marks the things it downloads as read. With output for EPUB and MOBI, it supports basically every eReader on the market, and can even directly convert an RSS feed to an eBook if you're not a Google Reader user.
HabitRPG Makes Improving Yourself Actually Addictive
Change your habits for the better by tying them into challenges in a role playing game. Level up for doing things you know you should and lose hit points for indulging in habits you know you need to give up. If you love role playing games – and traditional todo lists aren't working for you – HabitRPG is highly recommended.
How to Use Google Reader, Metro-Style, With Nextgen [Windows 8]
Add a beautiful, Metro-style Google Reader app to Windows 8. If you like your reading experience to be clean, quick and smooth – and you're a recent convert to Windows 8 – this is the app you've been looking for. It even comes with offline reading support. Nextgen Readers does what every Windows 8 app should aspire to: offer a great tablet interface without compromising the desktop experience.
Forismatic: Relax For A Moment With Inspirational Quotes [Mac]
Forismatic is designed to be inspiring without being a time sink. Its core functionality – showing you a single inspiring quote without completely covering up your work – is simple. But the app implements this functionality in three different ways: as a transparent overlay of your work, as a menubar popup or as a timed overlay encouraging you to reflect as long as possible.
Windows 8 Version Of Minesweeper Includes Themes, Adventure Mode
Play a new version of Windows classic Minesweeper, complete with XBox achievements and a brand new adventure mode. Yep, I'm writing an article about Minesweeper. And why shouldn't I? It's a game that's been included by default with Windows since forever, a comforting relic from the 90's that until recently came with every new PC . No longer though. Windows 8 is the first version not to come with Minesweeper at setup.
Make Windows 8 Suck Less With Classic Shell
Make Windows 8 usable for people who think it's not. Add a start menu to the desktop and tweak the way Explorer and Internet Explorer behave, all thanks to a piece of software called Classic Shell. If you like tweaking your user interface, and miss the options provided by previous versions of Windows, you'll love this software.