Pasting text from web pages into Microsoft Word can be a serious pain—all you wanted was the text, but it copies the formatting. Reader Wille writes in with a quick tip to make it simpler.
Reader YBoris’s desktop completely replaces the Windows interface with LiteStep—a minimalist, functional and infinitely hackable shell replacement.
Windows only: Whether you’d like to reassign existing shortcuts or create a whole new batch of them, Keyboard Tweaker is a free and lightweight keyboard shortcut manager.
Mac users may see an update to OS X 10.5.7 this Friday, according to a “super-secret Apple source” and web site Mac Life. Whether or not that’s the case, whenever it does drop users can expect 10.5.7 to usher in over 100 updates and fixes to features like networking, syncing, iChat, Safari, and Bluetooth. [Mac|Life]
Almost any platform you could want: XBMC has updated to version 9.04, codename Babylon, available now for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Apple TV, the classic Xbox, and bootable CDs or USB drives.
Your habits, behaviours, and the things you consume every day create patterns over time that say a whole lot about you as a person. It’s time to graph your life.
Windows: Gladinet, the desktop utility that mounts Google, Windows Live, and other web/cloud storage applications as locally backed-up folders, boasts about new stress-tested stability and compatability in its just-out release candidate download.
