When I'm listening to music it is nice to have the lyrics available within the media player so that you don't have to venture off onto the Internet to hunt them down. So many of the online services bombard you with advertisements and popups, and it becomes more of a chore to find what you're looking for.

Pidgin is an extremely popular open source instant messenger, but have you ever thought to yourself what it would be like if Mozilla created something similar? It would be possible to make the instant messenger do almost anything you want with the use of extensions ...

Seam carving (also known as content aware image resizing) has been the hit lately when it comes to photo editing. It all started with the presentation by Ariel Shamir who put together a nearly breathtaking demo. In it he showed how scaling images could be done without losing or distorting the important aspects of photos.

The WordPress development team is on the home stretch to releasing the next milestone! WordPress 2.3 is scheduled for an official release on September 20, and right now they are looking for people to test out the first Beta.

There is no doubt that one of my favorite applications for Windows is Paint.NET! It’s free, fast, and packed with features. Paint.NET 3.10 makes the application even better by adding a few more great photo effects ().

Pretty soon Firefox 3 is going to be feature complete, and all that will be left for them to do is fine-tune the things they have implemented. As we build up to that big moment there are some new features that are coming out of the shop for testers.

Launchy is becoming a well-known application among PC power users. When the latest version launched back in April it included a plugin called Runny which added a whole new aspect to the application. I love that plugin because you can create customized commands for Launchy, such as one for composing an email.

If you use WordPress for your blog, you may want to pay attention to DivShare because they’ve just made it easier for you to upload files directly to your DivShare account from the “Write a Post” page.

One of Windows Live Writer’s biggest downfalls is that it does not allow users to insert videos before publishing articles, or maybe it is just me. Every time that I try embedding the video into the HTML code of a post it gets screwed up.