Lifehacker: IP Hider Accesses Hulu, Other US-Only Content from Outside the US – IP Hider is an easy-to-use proxy application that makes it appear as though you’re browsing from inside the United States. As a result, sites like Hulu, which block access to folks surfing outside US borders, are now accessible to your foreign eyes.
Computerworld: Hacker broke into Twitter e-mail with help from Hotmail – The hacker who stole confidential Twitter documents used a feature of Microsoft’s Hotmail to hijack an employee’s work e-mail account, the site that has published some of the Twitter documents said Sunday.
Ask the Wi-Fi Guru: July Edition – Need help with your small or home office Wi-Fi? In this month’s installment, he ponders several wireless network mysteries and asks for help with a particularly challenging puzzle.
Do you really need a high end graphics card? – Mid-range marvels give great bang for your buck. Forget the high-end stuff; the mid-range is where it’s at.
Gbridge: A Free and Easy VPN – Gbridge lets you build a secure VPN so you can access your files from anywhere. It even includes media-viewing features.
NiftyClicks: Loot, iFreelance, PlanetBargains, SideStep – It’s time for more NiftyClicks from our favorite marketing maverick, Andrew Lock. Check out his selection cool tools that can make your life a little bit easier.
Apps ‘to be as big as internet’ – The market for mobile applications, or apps, will become “as big as the internet”, peaking at 10 million apps in 2020, a leading online store says.
Mashable: Earlier today we mentioned that Digg.com appears to have changed the behavior of its short URLs so they no longer go to the source of the story for logged-out users: instead they direct visitors to a landing page on Digg.com. The change has many negative implications for publishers, including the fact that readers who think they are creating a link to your content are actually just pushing traffic to Digg.
Readers Digest: 10 Cheats to Help You Look Better in Photos – How to put your best face forward and pose like a model.
How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer? – With all the buzz about the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing I got to thinking, how powerful were the computers that “took us to the Moon?”
Wannabe’s Can Upload, Sell Tracks in ‘Rock Band’ – Ever wanted to self-publish your garage band’s 1992 hit “Death Cupcakes for Diana” on MTV’s “Rock Band” and get paid for it? In August, you’ll be able to.
How to get high-end “Steadicam” shots from your low-end camcorder, on the cheap – You could spend $849 on a real Steadicam for camcorders, but if your camcorder itself cost well under that, this probably seems excessive. Well, you’re not out of luck — here are a few ways to achieve a similar result on the cheap with your own camcorder.
How to Win a Better Deal From Your Service Provider – You can go to bat against a service provider and win, but you’ve got to be ready to go to the brink, as this real chat session demonstrates.
5 Psychological Experiments That Expose Humanity’s Dark Side – Psychologists know you have to be careful when you go poking around the human mind because you’re never sure what you’ll find there. A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects.
KompoZer Web authoring tool – KompoZer is a free, open source WYSIWYG Web page authoring tool that will quickly become one of your favorite tools no matter if you are a new Web designer or a professional.
VLC media player 1.0.0 – Free and Open Source cross-platform media player. Supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs.
8 Free Data Recovery Software – Deleted a file from your computer thinking you never need it again but soon realized that you actually do want it back? Luckily, there are free software programs available using which you can recover files that are even deleted from the recycle bin.
OpenOffice.org 3 – The leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers.
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