Filename Find and Replace

Do you ever need to rename a lot of files in a particular way? I have a utility to help out…
I was trying to rip CDs to MP3 for my Creative Nomad player tonight. I normally use FreeRip which does an excellent job and is highly customisable, but it couldn’t seem to fetch the CD […]

Command and Conquer for Free

Those nice people at EA Games have decided to celebrate the 12th Anniversary of Command and Conquer by giving it away.
Point your browser here.
Word of warning - it does seem to be running slow on the servers at the moment.

Browser

I downloaded a beta of Apple’s Safari browser which has been newly released for Windows. I’ve heard quite a lot about Safari from Mac fans, so eager to try it.
My first observation is that it looks terrible. I don’t know if this is how it looks on a Mac, but the contrast of the menu/address […]

paint.net

I’m more of a developer than a designer, so my needs for graphics tools are limited. It’s mostly resizing, making a large text image and perhaps a little image retouching. I don’t need Photoshop, and I find GIMP unfriendly.
So, I’m glad I came across Paint.net. It’s a Windows-based image manipulation tool that runs on Windows […]

Blogger Freebies

There’s been quite some discussion around the decision by Microsoft to send out some very nice top-of-the-range Acer Ferrari laptops preloaded with Windows Vista to a number of high ranking bloggers.
I’ve had a little think on the subject, and I’ve decided that it doesn’t do any favours to accept such gifts. Even as "review products". […]

Gmail App

For some time now, I’ve been using my Nokia smartphone to read my Gmail. Google already made it easier, having a specially lightweight page for mobile browsers to keep it nice and quick.
They’ve now released a specific application called Gmail App  which allows you to retrieve the mail on the phone, and because it’s a […]

Plan 9 from Google Video

I only recently discovered that Ed Wood’s craptacular Plan 9 from Outer Space is in the public domain. It was made in 1959, so should still be under copyright. However, I think that the US copyright used to require renewal, and I presume that someone thought it had no value.
It’s often considered as one of […]

More Free Music

I’m off to see a couple of bands in the next few weeks. One of them, The Piney Gir Country Roadshow is quite open about their music, and have a few MP3s available for download at 3hive. Personally, I like Greetings, Salutations, Goodbyes. There’s also more on emusic.
 
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Belleville Rendez-Vous Free (ish)

I generally avoid the free DVDs in newspapers. Mostly, they’re terrible movies.
However, in Saturday’s (9th Sep 2006) Times (London) there is a free DVD of the brilliant Belleville Rendez-Vous, a French animation. It’s mostly silent with language more as expressions (like Jaques Tati), so you don’t have to stare at subtitles.
It is a more mature […]

Free Videos of Milton Friedman

On Google Video, the whole of Milton Friedman’s TV series "Free to Choose".
Link
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