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

VLC is an incredibly popular cross-platform media player, and it's well known for supporting a wide variety of media types. iPhone and iPod Touch users can rejoice because a public version of VLC4iPhone is right around the corner! Work has already begun on porting the popular VLC media player over to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, and the progress looks great.

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YouTube has just added a new feature that will allow people to create videos with annotations. What they mean by annotations is a way for people to add interactive commentary to their videos. On the YouTube page that runs-through what it's all about, they explain how people can use them:

• To add background information about the video
• Create stories with multiple possibilities (viewers click to choose the next scene)
• Link to
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Last night at the D6 conference both Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer sat down together for an interview. We've got two highlight videos from the conference below, and there were actually some interesting things brought up. What's even more surprising is that there were some jokes being thrown around.

Before we get into that we wanted to bring some attention to the multi-touch Windows 7 interface that was demoed. Despite being rather

On August 4, 2007 the $325 million Phoenix spacecraft departed earth on a 422 million mile journey to Mars. Just yesterday the journey came to a head as Phoenix made its descent onto Mars. As you can see in the video below there was a lot of tension at NASA while they awaited confirmation that Phoenix Mars Lander successfully landed, and they were not notified until

Mac only
Tired of hunting down the various codecs to play your movies in QuickTime? Perian (free and open source) is pretty much the one-stop-shop when it comes to codecs on your Mac. It adds support for over two-dozen different types of media that QuickTime doesn't ordinarily support:

• AVI,
  Continue reading Perian: Play AVI, FLV, DIVX, and More in QuickTime for Mac

Windows; Mac
Last week we wrote about some terrific rulers for both Windows and Macs, but it looks like we missed a top-notch alternative. Nate pointed out in the comments that a free app called Rulers is his favorite option for Macs, but it turns out that there is also a Windows