There have been quite a few video conversion utilities giving away their software for Halloween this year, but to be honest a lot of them aren't that great. I tried one of them today, however, called Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate (retail value of $66) and it is the obvious exception. You can apply for a free license code today only (expires 23:59:59 PM EDT on October 31, 2010).

Last month I covered an awesome photo sharing service called DropMocks. Unlike most photo management sites this one wasn't looking to be the most powerful service on the web, and instead just wanted to offer a simple way for users to quickly share photos with one another. There's a new kid on the block that copies a lot of what DropMocks offers, but also throws in a few goodies.

I've never been a huge fan of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applications because of how they have a hard time reproducing the original document that is being used as the source. Sometimes, however, the formatting may not be as important as just trying to avoid retyping a few dozen pages that you only have in a printed form.

A few months ago we wrote about an awesome iPhone/iPad game called Solipskier that some of my friends put together. The developers realize how much some of you love stats, and have assembled two gorgeous infographics that breakdown the traffic and money they scooped up with the hit game.

When it comes down to free FTP clients for Windows there are only a handful of them I ever hear people talk about. Normally they consist of apps like FileZilla or WinSCP, and some people just stick to the standard Windows Explorer if they are only connecting to FTP sites. I came across a different app the other day that I'd definitely put on par with apps like FileZilla. That app is FTP Rush.

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

Earlier this week the first Beta release of Defraggler 2.0 was posted, which is a pretty big milestone for the software. This defragmentation utility is freely available, and this update serves as the first major milestone in nearly three years (Defraggler 1.0 Beta debuted back in November 2007).

Over at Lifehacker last week I saw an article about an online service called WizardRSS that could take a partial/truncated RSS feed and turn it into the full thing. When you read news on a mobile device like I typically do having a full RSS feed can make reading news that much more enjoyable.

I've been working with some AppleScript lately to help with my video conversions, and I've come up with something that saves me quite a bit of hassle. It uses the free command-line interface of Handbrake called HandbrakeCLI, and is able to convert all videos from specified extensions (ex. avi and mkv) to something that is a bit more widely supported (ex. MP4).

One of my friends asked me recently if I knew of any way he could share a file with some friends that was over 8GB in size (it was a ZIP of over a thousand photos). Distributing really large files like that can often be a huge pain. All of the normal alternatives aren't really available, such as attaching to an email or some other sites that actually host the files for you.

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

I find myself in discussions about the iPhone quite frequently with people, and for the longest time I was never impressed with the selection of weather apps available. It seemed any iPhone-related conversation would spin into an explanation about how I felt the existing weather apps fell short of perfect.

Ever want to post a PDF document online for people to read without making someone download it first? There are some excellent zero-effort sites for doing just that, such as Scribd, but not everyone likes to use third-party services for that kind of stuff.

I always try to be good about adding things to my calendar, but more often than not those times I say "oh, I'll add that to my calendar later" turns into something that never happens. In the end I completely forget what I was supposed to do, and the vicious cycle repeats itself.

I've helped plenty of people with coding before, but when I'm not working right next to them it can be difficult to help troubleshoot. They normally end up emailing me the code and then I email them back the edited file. Along with that I typically have to explain what I've changed, which can be a pain if there were a lot of modifications throughout the code.

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

I'm always on the lookout for great bookmarklets, and I think the free online service called Print Friendly has just earned a permanent spot in my repertoire. When you go to the homepage you'll notice that there is a spot for you to enter in the URL of a site, and doing so will cause a printer-optimized version of the page to be displayed.

The other day I was looking for a way to take a large CSV file worth of data and convert it into corresponding XML nodes. I wanted the first line of the CSV file to serve as each individual node name so that it could be easily parsed, and most of all I wanted an online solution because I knew I shouldn't need a full-fledged application to do something this mundane.

If you're a webmaster that is running a site using Apache then you are likely familiar with the .htaccess file. It's a powerful way to redirect and control access to virtually any page on the site, but it can take time getting used to the syntax needed for some of the things you may want to do. One thing that comes to mind is setting up a domain (ex.

One of my favorite features in Vista/Windows 7 is the built-in search utility. It makes finding things a lot faster, and in some cases it can even search the content of a file. By default, however, it supports a limited number of file types when it comes to searching a file's content, but that is where the MariusSoft File Searcher comes in.