Compiz Fusion on Linux has definitely received a lot of attention because of their innovative thinking, and the latest thing to come out of their lab is a plugin called Stackswitch. To put it simply it is an application switcher, but it comes packed with pizzazz. Once it's activated it angles all of your windows so that it appears as though they are laying flat on

Microsoft unexpectedly made an announcement yesterday that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will include XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF), and Open Document Format (ODF) support once it is released in 2009. That's pretty big news because, as you might recall, Adobe forced Microsoft to remove XPS & PDF support from Office 2007 when it was still in the Beta

Windows only
You know that scroll wheel on your mouse? It's pretty handy to have when you're navigating around documents quickly and whatnot. But did you know that there is a lot more that you can use it for other than just scrolling?

An awesome freeware utility called Volumouse will breathe new life

If you're using Firefox there is a very good chance that you've heard of the IE Tab extension. For many of us it helped ease the burden of switching to Firefox as the primary browser back when developers didn't see Firefox as a viable alternative. That is not nearly as big of a problem as it once was.

Opera, on the other hand,

Time Saving Tuesday

One of the reasons Adobe Photoshop has become so popular is because of all the advanced photo affects that can be applied to images. Over the last few years I've seen a lot of free alternatives emerge onto the scene saving users hundreds of dollars, but many of them don't have the effects and control that I'm looking for.

The tool that we found for you today is

Netflix subscribers and Windows Vista Media Center users now have at their disposal an awesome plug-in that is available as a public beta.  It's hard to believe that this hasn't been done before (at least to my knowledge) because it's extremely useful. The biggest and most useful feature for most of you will be the fact that the MyNetflix plug-in adds "Watch Now" support to Media Center.  That means you can stream the Watch

Donation Coder is working some of their programmers to the bone lately with all of the apps that are being developed! Just a month ago they released a dozen or so free programs, and this time around there are 16 new ones. Here are a few of them that really peaked my interest:

• WTF Music Info - This creates a chart of your music based upon genre, artist, or year. It
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