If you liked what you saw when Boxee previewed their new private beta release and don’t quite have the patience to wait for the beta to officially open up to the public in January, you can now grab Boxee Beta from BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay. [Boxee Beta BitTorrent Download via Gizmodo]
The lack of an R18+ classification for games in Australia has long been a stupid/technophobic/embarrassing/ill-thought-out situation (delete as you see fit). While there’s no sign of an imminent change to the law, a discussion paper from the Attorney-General released yesterday does open the door to that possibility.
Windows only: Google Wave has a lot of potential, but it’s also another inbox to keep track of. Google Wave Desktop Notifier is a small system tray application will let you know when you’ve got new messages in your inbox.
Slightly stale bread is great for stuffing or French toast, but really stale bread is just bird food. From baguettes to dinner rolls, here’s a quick look at how you can keep your bread fresh as the day you bought it.
Who owes what and whether or not they paid can be a significant source of stress in a shared household. BillsAreIn is an easy-to-use tool for automating the process of bill-sharing and managing the house budget.
As a tech writer, I regularly cringe at all the bad tweaking advice out there, and disabling the system pagefile is often a source of contention among geeks. Let’s examine some of the pagefile myths and debunk them once and for all.
All-things BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak broke down the numbers and rounded up the 25 most popular torrent sites of 2009.
Google’s auto-suggest feature is now good for more than quick searches and occasionally hilarious search completions. Type something like “[your city]weather” or your flight number in, and a drop-down box will provide answers from Universal Search without even clicking.
Did you have something to do this weekend other than scan tech news and Twitter for “Nexus One”? Here’s the quick-read lowdown on what the “Google Phone” is (and isn’t), what it looks like and when it might arrive.
