Windows only: For some, downloading software is a daily habit. Spot, download, install, forget. The problem is, a lot of applications don’t have built-in tools for making sure they’re updated. Instead of checking each program—manually—to see if it’s up-to-date, run RadarSync and let it check all the apps on your system for you.
Chronic and recurring back pain is painful at best and incapacitating at its worst, and sitting in front of a computer all day rarely helps. The New York Times reports that using a method known as the Alexander technique may offer some short term relief by repositioning your head.
Windows/Mac OS X: Apple’s popular digital media player iTunes updated to version 8.2 today, most notably preparing iTunes to play nice with the upcoming release of the much-anticipated iPhone 3.0 operating system (you know, the one that’s finally adding copy-and-paste, MMS, and notes sync).
Windows 7 only: Gmail Notifier Plus displays your unread email count right in the Windows 7 taskbar, including popup message previews and Jump Lists integration.
Cleaning tasks left for another day have a habit of growing into monstrous, time-consuming messes. Use a cleaning schedule to makes sure your messes don’t grow into Saturday-slaying monsters. Photo by Todd Baker.
Windows only: Tiny application NumLocker disables the Caps, Num and Scroll Lock keys from an easy-access menu in the system tray.
Latest entry in the local guides field: Nextstop, which lets users create their own local or global guides—think best beer bars in the world, for example.
Your laptop is missing. You’re completely out of luck, right? Not if your laptop can phone home. Prey is a cross-platform security application that sends home pictures and location data when your laptop goes missing.
If you want to add Microsoft’s new search engine in the quick search box for your favourite browser, we’ve got you covered.
Beta versions of the iPhone and iPod touch 3.0 firmware indicate that convenient, free re-downloading of App Store purchases directly to the phone will be phased out. Previously purchased apps can still be re-downloaded for free through iTunes and then synced, so most Apple watchers are guessing the move is an anti-piracy stance against iTunes account “sharing.” Still, if you’d like to avoid the hassle, you might want to re-download any apps you’ve spent money on now, before the 3.0 firmware drops (presumably after the June 8-12 Worldwide Developers’ Conference). [The iPhone Blog]
