Over in our forum Max inquired about whether it was safe to remove old versions of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) that had been left behind after each upgrade. Of course you can, and there's a good chance that you can free up hundreds of megabytes by removing them.

According to Sun the reason they leave the old versions of Java on your computer is to ensure that older Java applications will work even

Mac only
The Mac OS X Dock provides a quick way to launch your favorite applications, but one thing I don't think Apple has completely thought about is how people use different apps depending on the task they're trying to complete. Spaces, Leopard's virtual desktop manager, makes it easy to create one desktop for work, another for fun, and so on. That's

Windows; Mac
A nifty little program called Amazon Watcher can save you from those "if only I was a little faster" moments. What it can do is watch any item on Amazon, and then notify you when the price has dropped or when an item becomes available. When

Time Saving Tuesday

Windows only
One trend that I've noticed as bandwidth and hard drive storage space continues to grow is that sending CD/DVD's over the Internet is becoming a preferred way for distributing media. These files are typically in an ISO or BIN/CUE format, which most people will then burn to a CD/DVD before using

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Songbird is a media player that I've had a lot of faith in ever since I took a look at it back at version 0.2. The fact that users create extensions just like in Firefox gave the perception that it would become very successful, but for awhile development had slowed down considerably. I'm happy to say that the first Release Candidate of

Yahoo is taking advantage of SearchMonkey widgets to automatically provide more elaborate search results to their users. It wasn't that long ago (a few months) that Yahoo decided to start using the SearchMonkey technology in the first place, allowing developers to create SearchMonkey applications to better the Yahoo search experience. At the time when they announced this they said they'd be opening a "sandbox" where programmers could test their apps and then eventually

Mac only
AOL has retired the older version of their radio application for the Mac OS X operating system in favor of the new AOL Radio 2.0. The application is powered by CBS Radio, and includes over 200 radio stations including 150+ CBS Radio stations that are spread out across the United States.

The interface isn't overly fancy, but it has