CHEAP STUFF FROM PC MAG

PC Magazine’s “Utility Library” has lots of cheap programs, some useful, some not.

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GLOBAL IGNITE

Ignite is a series of five-minute speed presentations on topics ranging from a giant interactive Rubik’s cube to how to be a refugee. You can watch them on igniteshow.com

210,000 BUSINESS CARDS ONLINE

Cardbrowser.com collects business cards at trade shows and makes them searchable online.

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GIVE A DIGITAL HOLLER

BigVoiceMail makes it easy to send a voice message attached to your email.

SUCKING UP YOUTUBE

With “TubeSucker” you can download thousands of short takes from your favorite artist, lecturer or author in one fell swoop.

THE BIG BUZZ

Buzz is a social networking site that lives in your Gmail account.

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CODE CRACKER

ElcomSoft’s password cracker is so good they almost went to jail for it. Now they have a new beta version for the iPhone and iPod Touch that can crack any password, encrypted or not, to retrieve address books, call logs, text message archives, calendars, photos, voice mails, emails, apps and Web history. The beta version [...]

THE LITL COMPUTER’S NEW RECIPE CHANNEL

Something different:
The “Litl” webbook is more like a TV than a computer. It has channels and a remote control; it’s close to maintenance-free. On the Litl, everything exists in the “cloud,” another term for the Internet. As long as you have wireless access, it connects automatically, and everything you do takes place there.
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PDF PARADISE

The new PDF Reader from Nuance PDF is a free program that does a lot more than open “PDFs.”

FORECLOSURE INFO ON YOUR IPHONE

“Complete Foreclosures,” a free app for the iPhone, finds foreclosures in your neighborhood.