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Allmyapps Bulk-Installs Your Favourite Apps
1:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Linux: One of the most irritating things about reinstalling your operating system is installing all the non-OS applications you love. Allmyapps lets you select all your favourite apps and roll them into a bulk installer to make rebuilding easy. More »
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11:40PM Kevin Purdy | Windows: If you’re upgrading to Windows 7 from XP, you’ll spend a lot of time grabbing installers and Next-Next-Next-clicking through setup wizards. Unless you use Ninite to check off the best free software and install it all at once. More »
Ninite Bulk-Installs Great Free Windows Apps
11:40PM Kevin Purdy | Windows: If you’re upgrading to Windows 7 from XP, you’ll spend a lot of time grabbing installers and Next-Next-Next-clicking through setup wizards. Unless you use Ninite to check off the best free software and install it all at once. More »
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Automatic Downloads New Torrents…Automatically
2:30AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X: Free preference pane Automatic lets you subscribe to virtually any content delivered via RSS, automatically downloading everything matching your preferences. That means podcasts, videocasts, and feeds of your favourite torrents—like for your favourite TV show. More »
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Blaze Launches Applications And Automates Repetitive Tasks
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows: Applications launchers are plentiful and since Windows Vista there has been a built-in launcher in the start menu. Blaze however rolls application launching into a package with task automation. As you work it suggests ways to automate your workflow. More »
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USBDriveFresher Tidies Up Your Directories
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: Have a flash drive that is constantly getting cluttered up with temporary files or system files from another OS? Why manually delete the mess? Automate the cleanup with USBDriveFresher. More »
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Delete Outlook Emails With The Middle Mouse Button
2:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Grigory writes in with his ubergeeky script that deletes messages in Microsoft Outlook just by middle-clicking on them in the list—so you can make short work of cleaning out your inbox. More »
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EzRSS Provides BitTorrent Feeds Of Your Favorite TV Shows
8:00AM Adam Pash | Web site ezRSS is yet another web site designed to help you “subscribe” to your favourite TV shows via BitTorrent so your download automatically starts as soon as a new episode is available (known as broadcatching). More »
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New Folder Wizard Makes Bulk Folder Creation Effortless
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: Creating a folder here and there one is all most of us usually need in a day. What if you need to create hundreds of folders? New Folder Wizard makes it a snap. More »
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AutoSave Adds Reassurance To Notepad++ Editing
12:10AM Kevin Purdy | Windows: Notepad++, a light but reliable text editor we included in our 2009 Lifehacker Pack of essential Windows downloads, gets even more reliable with a free, configurable auto-saving plug-in. More »
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