Tuesday, June 30, 2009

TubeMaster++ Updates To Make Grabbing Videos, Music Even Easier

11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: Last year we shared TubeMaster Plus with you, an extremely handy program for downloading videos and music from streaming sites. TubeMaster++ has been released and comes with a slew of new features. More »

Toodledo Gmail Adds Robust Task Management To Gmail

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Toodledo, a web-based task manager that’s friendly to Getting Things Done adherents or anyone looking for a serious but customisable reminder setup, adds a Gmail gadget to its arsenal of tools that let you track your to-dos anywhere you’re looking. More »

Pirate Bay Could Be Purchased, May Start “Compensation Model”

10:40PM Kevin Purdy | From the News That Sounds Like a Prank Dept.: The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent-powered scourge of media conglomerates and copyright enforcers everywhere, announced that it “may get acquired by Global Gaming Factory,” a network of internet cafés and gaming centres, to the tune of about $US8 million. The recently convicted site runners claim on their blog that users will leave the site in droves if the “new owners screw around with the site”—a fairly good guess, we’d think—but owners-to-be GGF state their intention to “introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid” for downloads. Meanwhile, the site has decentralised its torrent tracking and hosting. [via TorrentFreak]

OffiSync Provides Google Docs And Searches Inside Office

9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows: Free Office 2003 & 2007 plug-in OffiSync lets desktop users open documents from, and save to, Google Docs’ online servers, but that’s nothing amazingly new. A newer Google Search option does, however, integrates powerful image and web searches. More »

Truveo Video Search Launches Australian Site

3:17PM Angus Kidman | Let’s face it, when you want to find an online video you probably head straight to YouTube, but for a more cross-site approach, Truveo isn’t a bad extra resource to have up your sleeve. More »

Microsoft Word Lists Terminology Explained

1:30PM Angus Kidman | Word wants to make it easy to format complicated lists, but having two separate approaches to creating those formats doesn’t necessarily assist with the task. More »

Make Your Financial New Year Resolutions

12:00PM Angus Kidman | June 30 marks the end of the financial year in Australia. As well as inspiring lots of last-minute business purchases for tax purposes, it’s also a sensible time to make some new work and finance plans for the year ahead. More »

Telstra Bill Glitches Drive Dealers, Customers To Despair

10:30AM Angus Kidman | Telstra’s never had much of a reputation for billing efficiency (it took the better part of this millennium for it to offer single bills to customers), but despite investing billions in the process, it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. More »

Get A Free Copy Of Pop-Sci [Updated]

9:00AM Kym Weathersten | If you’re a fan of the recently launched Popular Science magazine, then this one’s for you. The science, tech and gadget mag is giving away an issue of your choice to every person who completes a short (two questions) survey. Of course the offer is only until stock runs out, and is strictly one per person. But in these economic times, who’s going to turn down a free read of a quality magazine? [Pop Sci] More »

iPhone Plan Calculator Now Covers 3GS

9:00AM Angus Kidman | Andrew Parry’s iPhone plan calculator has always been a useful tool, so it’s great news that it’s been updated to cover the new 3GS plans released by carriers over the last week. More »