Featured Windows Download: Install-It Creates Auto-Starting Installer CDs for Any Applications. Very simple to use and set up.

This program takes around 4MB space but saves it later. Whenever a program wants to add itself as a startup program, this gives you the option of allowing or disallowing it. This means no more unwanted adobe crap starting up with your PC.

These guys are making a shot of creating a app store like Android or Apple have for Windows Mobile programs.

Augmented Reality is where you take a camera and overlay digital images on the picture. These pictures are then anchored to certain items, so when you’re looking at an object, you can see the digital addition, but if you move the camera, the digital addition stays with the object.

ARToolKit is a system to build Augmented Reality applications in. It’s available for windows, linux, macos and there are a whole load of extensions

Studierstube is a total rebuild from ARToolkitPlus which was modified from ARToolkit. This was first optimised for windows and is now optimised for mobile devices – ie. windows mobile.

Uses Wireless triangulation to pinpoint where your device is and show it on a map. Never lose it again!

gMote is a windows freeware that allows you to easily define mouse gestures to launch programs or open folders.

ALP 3.0 is out. This is the successor the Palm OS / Garnet and would have been really really really exciting. If it had happened around 3 years ago.
Very curious if Palm is going to license this for their new phones and get rid of Windows Mobile (which is total crap).
Somehow I don’t think it’ll compare well to the iphone OS though, allthough it’ll probably offer better Outlook synchronisation and security.

If you have a crappy old router there are open source ways to upgrade them using alternative firmwares:

There’s Tomato for Linksys’ WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers.

It features a new easy to use GUI, a new bandwidth usage monitor, more advanced QOS and access restrictions, enables new wireless features such as WDS and wireless client modes, raises the limits on maximum connections for P2P, allows you to run your custom scripts or telnet/ssh in and do all sorts of things like re-program the SES/AOSS button, adds wireless site survey to see your wifi neighbors, and more.

Then there’s dd-wrt based on the Linksys software but since completely rebuilt.

Among other features not found in the original Linksys firmware, DD-WRT adds the Kai Daemon for the Kai Console Gaming network, WDS wireless bridging/repeating protocol, Radius Authentication for more secure wireless communication, advanced Quality of Service controls for bandwidth allocation, and software support for the SD-Card hardware modification.

MouseJail is a tiny freeware that keeps your mouse on the monitor you want it to stay. Very handy with games, where sometimes the mouse wanders out into the desktop next to the gaming area.

Minitube integrates with Winamp, Itunes or KMPlayer and hunts down the music video to the song you’re playing on youtube.

If you don’t want to run an MS Exchange server, but you do want to have the groupware functions such as sharing calendars, emails, notes, contacts, etc. there are a few semi open alternatives you can try which also support phone synchronisation.

Most support webbased functionality and allow you to attach any client to it, some come with their own suite of clients.

But if you want to use your Outlook client, all of them require you to buy a connector.

Sogo (connector via which requires Samba4)

OpenGroupware.org Ogo

Scalix

Kolab

Zimbra

Zafara

Citadel

Open Xchange

Unison has a client and server setup which also includes IM and a PBX for IP telephony.

Most work quite a bit like Outlook, but Citadel is totally different, out of the box.

Yup, yet another feature Apple forgot, can now be downloaded into your jailbroken iphone. SwirlyMMs adds just what you’d expect it to 🙂

Unbelievable but true: Apple doesn’t offer any way for you to use your iphone as a modem for your computer. Fortunately, if you have a jailbroken iphone, this app alows you to tether your PC to your iphone and internet off a BIG screen!

Awesome kmz file!

Well there’s 2 out there that let you do this: the simple and small and also in 64bit versionTaskix or the slightly more complex (but only 32 bit) Taskbar Shuffle

Ubiquity adds a whole load of command line functionality to Mozilla Firefox – email content on the pages, look it up in wikipedia, loads and loads of commands, and you can teach it your own commands too. There are as many user programmed commands out there now as there are extensions!

This is a comprehensive howto outlining how to use the Wii stuff to control your PC using windows, Linux or Mac.

Turns out that solving the deconfliction problem in the air is quite simple, considering everything is armed with GPS nowadays. However, in order to pinpoint position you need 5 satellite signals. And what happens if the US uses their ‘off’ switch?

Windows only: Free application Startup Delayer staggers the applications that launch when you log in to Windows by user-defined increments. The reason: To mitigate the common startup bottleneck caused by all of your startup applications fighting to run at the same time.

Featured Windows Download: Startup Delayer Staggers Your Startup Apps for Smoother Loading

Most aggregators basically provide a shell for you to search individual sites on, but this one searches all the sites, filters out doubles and allows you to work with operators such as ‘-‘

This page links to a program that allows you to create subtitles for movies, but also to subloaddownloader, which finds them for you.

Sublight also downloads and manages your subtitles

This phrase I’ve been seeing EVERYWHERE the past couple of months. No-one can really define what it is though. So here is the best explanation of it yet:

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This uses the built in accellerometer to record your cars performance. Apparently it works as well as more expensive dedicated hardware.

TinEye searches the web based on pictures you upload or link to. It will find the same picture elsewhere and tell you where that is, even if the other picture has been edited. So you can find where else the picture is used and see variations of it all over the web.