Posted from Download Squad 1 day 17 hours ago
Filed under: Internet, Web services, Search, Web Soovle is a search engine for people who might not know exactly what they're looking for. As soon as you start typing a search term, Soovle will begin to offer suggestions for related terms that may help you refine your search. And it doesn't just offer suggestions for one service, but for 7: Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Answers.com, Ask.com, YouTube, and Amazon.If you want to take Soovle up on one of its suggestions, just click on the text and Soovle will change the contents of the search box. If you want to change the default search engine, just... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 50 days ago
Filed under: Utilities, Features, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Open Source Making sure you've got a reliable backup solution is a must for any user - and more so for an administrator. Why? Well, mostly because your users probably aren't very good at remembering to back up their own files. An... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 50 days ago
Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, Social Software, Browsers If you've been waiting for a browser than natively supports location-based services, here's your first taste. Firefox 3.1 is all set to include geolocation based on a new WC3 standard, but you can test it out now with a Firefox add-on called ... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 51 days ago
Filed under: Mozilla, Open Source, Browsers, Mobile We've known for a while that Mozilla was working on a mobile version of Firefox. In fact, you can already download early builds of the web browser, codenamed Fennec, but at the moment it will only run on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. But Mozilla ... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 51 days ago
Filed under: Internet, Video You know how online video site Hulu is working to differentiate itself from YouTube by focusing on professionally produced video from TV networks? Yeah, YouTube's starting to branch out into that territory too now. CBS and YouTube recently began rolling out full length e... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 52 days ago
Filed under: Internet, P2P, Search There are several options out now for users that want to search several engines at once for torrrent downloads. My current favorite is still uSniff, but I'm always on the lookout for something newer and better.Thanks to a persistent commenter, I found out about Tor... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 52 days ago
Filed under: Utilities, Linux, Open Source So you've decided to install Ubuntu on your computer, but you're not ready to give up Windows altogether. No problem. During the install process, just take care not to overwrite Windows and you can have a dual boot setup in under an hour. But what's this? T... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 52 days ago
Filed under: Web services, Commercial, Shareware, Freeware, iPhone, web 2.0Here at Download Squad, we know that a fair number of our readers are avid Twitter users [much like ourselves]. There's been no shortage of Twitter clients thanks to Twitter's readily-available API: and the AppStore is little... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 52 days ago
Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Office, OpenOffice.org, Open Source The developers behind open source office suite OpenOffice.org plan to officially push the next major release on Monday. But if you just can't wait to get your hands on the first stable, post-beta, post-release candidate copy... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 52 days ago
Filed under: E-mail, Web services, web 2.0, Web Online productivity app makers Zoho have publicly rolled out Zoho Mail, a webmail application that's been in private beta up until today. While the world may not really need yet another webmail app, there are a few things that make Zoho Mail a notable ... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 52 days ago
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware You can clear up space on a Windows desktop by minimizing applications you're not currently looking at to the taskbar. But what happens when the taskbar is so overrun with programs that you can't make heads or tales of it? Wouldn't it be nice if you could ju... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 52 days ago
Filed under: Internet, Microsoft, Web Micorosft has launched a new web site that tracks popular political news stories and blog posts. Political Streams works a bit like a news aggregation service like Techmeme. But the layout is unique.Items are listed either in the News or Blogs category based on ... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 52 days ago
Filed under: Productivity, Apple, iPhoneFor better or for worse, the Apple AppStore has a bucketload of To-Do apps. If you're looking for a heavy-hitting [and location-aware] application designed specifically for the GTD mavens, you'll want OmniFocus ($19.99), and if you're looking for something a l... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 52 days ago
Filed under: Fun, Photo, Web services, Commercial, iPhone, web 2.0When the iPhone launched almost all possible web services, whether officially or via a third-party, gained an iPhone-specific portal. However Yahoo!-owned Flickr only recently (October 1st) gained a well-designed web version. With the... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 53 days ago
Filed under: Business, Finance, Productivity Trying to figure out where to tighten your belt during the financial crisis? You might want to take a look at Shoeboxed. It's an online service that helps you keep financial records by recording receipts that you mail, email or upload. The latest big feat... (original story)