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Linux Chrome Builds Get Plug-In Support
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Linux: If a lack of third-party plug-in support (i.e. Flash) kept you from trying out Chrome on your Linux system, then avoid no longer. The “early developer version” now supports many plug-ins, and they seem to work pretty well. More »
Design
Paint.NET Plugin Lets You Open Photoshop Files
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | If Paint.NET is your editor of choice and you find yourself needing to open .PSD Photoshop files, this plugin will help you introduce .PSD images into your Paint.NET workflow. More »
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Browser Plugin Allows PayPal Payments at Any Site
10:42PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: Online payment service PayPal rolled out a service a few months back that lets you generate and use single-use credit cards in order to make PayPal payments at sites you might not want to give your credit card information to. The PayPal Plug-In, for Internet Explorer 7 and (at the moment) Firefox 2, makes using “Secure Cards” much easier. When you’re at a site you want to pay with, you can create a card, fill a payment form with the card’s details, and even check your PayPal balance, all from a drop-down menu. For regular auction buyers or those venturing into unfamiliar web territory, it could be convenient peace of mind. The PayPal Plug-In is a free download for Windows systems only. PayPal Plug-In [via Download Squad] More »
Add On-Screen Display and Key Triggers to iTunes with iTunesControl
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: iTunesControl, a free iTunes add-on, adds two killer features that make open-source player AmaroK so appealing—namely, seriously customisable universal keyboard shortcuts and a pop-up on-screen display with album art and song information. Some of this functionality is offered in other add-ons (see Adam’s list of 23 great ones for examples), but iTunesControl is a preferred choice for those who really like to control their music. You can assign play/forward/back-type commands to nearly any key, including Function-switched keys for laptop users, and have the display pop-up anywhere on the screen, in any font/color/line combination you’d like. Better still, iTunesControl can be anchored to iTunes itself, starting and stopping whenever you launch the music app. iTunes Control is a free download for Windows systems with iTunes 4.6 or later only. iTunes Control [via Crave/CNET] More »Make a DIY Portable Stove
5:00AM Adam Pash | If you’ve got the DIY outdoors-y bug, you can make your own portable miniature stove using two aluminium cans, sandpaper, a thumb tack, razor blade, coat hanger, fiber glass, and Heet (I’m sure that’s all just sitting in your go bag, right?). It’s a very cool project, but if you undertake it, make sure you proceed with caution. Lifehacker prefers its readers keep their eyebrows. If you’ve got less goodies on hand but still need a fire, check out these alternatives. Cool Little Miniature Stove! [Metacafe] More »
Organise Your To-dos, Bookmarks, and RSS Feeds with Treedolist
4:00AM Adam Pash | Web site Treedolist hierarchically organises your to-do list, notes, bookmarks, RSS feeds, and pretty much anything else you can think to drop into it. At its most basic, you can think of it as a simple to-do list with the ability to add structured and nested lists and then filter your lists by due dates, labels, and a number of other useful methods. It gets interesting, though, when you realise that you can also add more information, like RSS feeds, and share branches of any tree with other Treedolist users. And—like any good online to-do list—Treedolist has several useful keyboard shortcuts. Treedolist [via Micro Persuasion] More »
Roundup of Federal Election websites
12:30PM Sarah Stokely | The Australian’s Media section had an interesting roundup of the websites which are springing up to cover (and cash in on) the upcoming federal election. It says that Google is going to launch its own election website tomorrow, replete with “video footage, user-generated content and customised information feeds.”
Ninemsn will launch its Australia Decides 07 site next week, while Prime (affiliated with Channel 7) has its Federal E1ection site up and running in beta format (err, what’s with the E1ection script kiddy language?).
Tipster Anthony points out it might be worthwhile/amusing to check out their Legal page as the terms and conditions include such gems as: “You automatically assign all copyrights on anything you post to them, but you’re still legally responsible for it. Anyone can create any derivative works of anything you post, with the proviso that they must mention federalelection.com.au as the source (and not you).” Thanks for pointing that out, Anth and thanks Korian for the Oz story.
Websites gear up for the election [The Australian] More » 
