Basically zoom in to pictures and it will correct the pixellation for you.

SmillaEnlarger Enlarges Your Images without Artifacts – Image Editing – Lifehacker.

Of course it wouldn’t take long before a program was developed to rip music from spotify. Easy instructions in the link.

Ripping music from Spotify using Spotify Ripper | Spotifyripping.com.

Mp3Extractor is a tool for copying several portions from an MP3 audio file into new (numbered and tagged) MP3 files easily.

Mp3Extractor: the show cutter.

Heatmapper allows you to upload a map to it, and then walk around with your laptop with wifi on. When you get to a place, you click on it on the map and the signal strength of wifi is measured, creating a heat map.

Ekahau HeatMapper – The Free Wi-Fi Coverage Mapping Site Survey Tool.

Layar is a cellphone (Android only at the moment and limited to NL) augmented reality viewer. You point your phone at an object, it’ll show it through the camera and then it will show any notes or information about the object. Currently it has layers with Funda (which shows houses for sale) and a few other content providers. It’ll be quite some time before they allow you to add your own layers.

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook allows you to use Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007 effectively with Google Apps. You get the cost savings, security and reliability of Google Apps while employees can use the interface they prefer for email, contacts and calendar.

via Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook.

CSS 3 implements a system that allows you to assign shortcut keys (with alt or shift-alt modifiers) to links, radio buttons, check boxes, etc. This allows disabled people and people who don’t particularly like using the mouse to navigate the web much faster..

It’s a colour picker with a zoom function

The example is a bit freaky, but it looks like promising technology.

Google wants you to put their tools into your website. So they’ve made it easy. Using elements, such as you probably have seen from Youtube embedded objects, they’ve gone and put maps, calendar, search, spreadsheets and a whole load more into this. Googlify your site!

All-Glass Firefox is a stylesheet for firefox that allows it to use the Windows Aero Glass effects, basically making your entire firefox transparent in Vista. For full useage they reccomend using the latest Firefox beta, but it works fine if you’re running stable as well.

This is very useful – running an Android app natively in its own window under Ubuntu. Why hasn’t Palm or Apple done this?

This was voted the best tool to keep the tags of your mp3 collection in order.

wants to add more search options: allowing the user to filter through the results themselves more effectively

Especially they want webmasters to add stuctured data:

by adopting microformats or RDFa standards to mark up their HTML and bring this structured data to the surface. This will help people better understand the information you have on your page so they can spend more time there and less on Google. We will be rolling this feature out gradually to ensure that the quality of Google’s search results stays high

Some more information about Structured data here

More information on Microformats

and more on RDFa

How to find out what’s really wrong with your PC when it blinks blue.

Now the guys at the superbowl will have another problem when hiding their mouths: even if they change the language they’re speaking in, the computer will be able to tell you which language it is!

Point this free app at your music library, tell it how many bpm you want it to look for and it will come up with a list of music. If you set the bpm between 120 – 140 you should get the perfect workout music playlist.

Bumptop changes your desktop into a physical type of room, with 3 walls and a desk. You can push things around the desk and create stacks of things very easily. Larger objects have more weight. It’s a neat concept, allthough I’m not sure how practical it is.

It automates Handbrake. For more DVD Ripping software (such as the DVD encryption breaking) also follow this link.

Windows only: Radical Image Optimization Tool makes it easy to see how compression affects the image quality of the pictures you’re optimizing with a handy side-by-side interface.

Lifehacker – Radical Image Optimization Tool Provides Side by Side Image Comparison – Image Editing

This works with a whole range of ebooks. It has a webserver so you can access it from outside, and converts formats as well as RSS feeds into books. It also works with Kindle and Stanza (for ipod)

It creates an Iso which you can burn to cd or thumbdrive. Boot off that and you’re playing your video!

Translation: To English Bookmarklet Quickly, Easily Translates Any Text with One Click