Many of you are probably sitting in front of a computer that has the amazing CCleaner application (review) installed. It helps keep your computer free from clutter by deleting unimportant files and cleaning up the registry, which is especially useful after uninstalling a program.

The same people who brought you CCleaner have also thrown down the gauntlet on defragmenting. Defraggler Beta is a free

The first 400 Optimus Maximus 113 key OLED keyboards will be shipping in December, and 3 new configurations have been announced for those people that might be on more of a budget. I use the word budget loosely...

• 1 active key (the Space Bar) = $462
• 10 active keys (on the left-side of the keyboard) = $599
• 47 active keys (main keys
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Favicons can be used for a variety of purposes, including the little website icon that shows up in the address bar or even the icon for applications running on your computer. Favicons have the file extension ICO, and as we've seen before generating a favicon can be a rather tedious process.

A new site, called GenFavicon.com, is aiming to make the favicon process so simple a caveman could do it. It is loaded

Remember that Give 1, Get 1 program that the One Laptop Per Child organization launched? It started on November 12th and was set to end on November 26th, however it's been extended. Either the program was extremely successful so they decided to see how much longer they could take it, or not many people bought them and they still have lots of laptops that they'd like to sell. Now you have until December 31st

Google has launched a service called My Location, and it could be a huge breakthrough in mobile mapping technology. My Location is available at no cost to those who use Google Maps on a mobile device, but don't have GPS capabilities built-in. Technicalities aside, it uses cell towers to approximate the location of the user so that it is easier to find out where you are headed.

Naturally this is not going

We've known that Google is serious about going green and saving energy over at their Mountain View campus with their solar power project, but now we know that they have a much larger "green" plan. A press release posted over at Google.org (Google's philanthropic arm) explains a new initiative that they're calling REC<C which stands for "renewable energy is cheaper than coal." In a nutshell,  they plan to help develop renewable sources of

Yesterday Microsoft invited only 5,000 testers to try out Windows Live Messenger version 9 in beta which will eventually replace Windows Live Messenger 8.5. We were actually invited to be one of those testers and as luck would have it, you'll be able to try it too.  The download has been leaked, and Softpedia has it available. Before you go and download it, I'll just mention a few of the new features to keep