Posted from Download Squad 54 days ago
Filed under: E-mail, Productivity, Web services, Yahoo!, web 2.0 Yahoo! is rolling out the first major overhaul of its web-based calendar application in 10 years. But while there are 278-million Yahoo! Mail users, only about 8 million people use the calendar.The new Yahoo! Calendar beta looks pretty... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 54 days ago
Filed under: Design, Fun, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Web services, Commercial, BetaComicBrush is a new online tool intended to allow regular people like you and me to create cartoons quickly and easily, even if we don't have any artistic talent. So far, so good, seems like a great premise. I was exc... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 54 days ago
Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Time-WastersSome time wasters seems sort of dumb when written out, but when you play them, you realize how fun they are. This one might be one of those. BoomBot is a game where you place bombs to try to blast your robot characte... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 54 days ago
Filed under: Text, Utilities, MacintoshShadow is a clipboard utility for OS X. Nothing special about that, right? I mean, we covered a whole slew of good ones back in January. Hold on a minute, though, because Shadow puts a new twist on the classic clipboard-enhancement app: it lets you copy and pas... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 55 days ago
Filed under: Fun, E-mail, Office, Google If you've ever sent an unfortunate email after having imbibed a few too many quality alcoholic beverages -- or even just when you were too tired or upset to think straight -- Google Mail Goggles might be the thing for you. It gives you a handful of simple mat... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 55 days ago
Filed under: Utilities, Linux, Web services Appnr is a web-based directory of applications for Ubuntu Linux. You can also launch Ubuntu's package manager to install any application on the site with a click of a button. Nothing to write home about there. You can get a list of apps for Ubuntu by firin... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 55 days ago
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware Tired of staring at a cluttered Windows desktop filled with program icons, documents, and other shortcuts? There are two solutions: Give your desktop a thorough cleaning, or sweep everything under the rug. Emerge Desktop helps you do the latter.In a nutshell... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 55 days ago
Filed under: Business, Windows, Office, Productivity, Commercial MindJet's MindManager is a mind mapping tool that is built to both mimic Microsoft Office applications, and integrate comfortably with them. Mind mapping, for the uninitiated, is a brainstorming tool that allows users to capture though... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 55 days ago
Filed under: Internet, Windows, Podcasting, Blogging, Productivity, Web services, FreewareFeedDemon has been the best RSS news reading application on the Windows platform for a long time. The folks at NewsGator certainly thought so, and instead of building their own standalone news aggregator for Wi... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 56 days ago
Filed under: Business, Internet, Text, E-mail, Productivity, Web services, Commercial, Freeware, SearchRecently our sister publication, TUAW, did a series of posts about each blogger's favorite iPhone and iPod Touch apps. We thought here at Download Squad that we'd take that same approach and apply ... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 56 days ago
Filed under: Fun, Games, Macintosh, Apple, Freeware, Time-WastersIf you're a Mac user, did you know that Tetris comes with your Mac? Have a look through your Applications folder - you won't find it there. Thanks to Cory over at TUAW, I now know that Tetris is an Easter Egg that can be found in the T... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 56 days ago
Filed under: Internet, Video It's official. We're one step closer to a point where you can throw out your cable box. Not only can you find virtually any TV program you'd ever want to see online thanks to BitTorrent, but legit web sites like Hulu and TheWB.com, and Fancast are making huge libraries o... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 56 days ago
Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Office, OpenOffice.org, Open Source There's good news and no news from the OpenOffice.org camp. First the good news, OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC4 is out, which no doubt features some new bug fixes and tweaks and not a whole lot of new features that were absent from ... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 57 days ago
Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Time-WastersYet another "tower defense" game? These games are very derivative, but the thing is, they're extremely fun to play. Whiteboard Tower Defense uses a whiteboard metaphor for your battleground, which works insofar as it gives a e... (original story)
Posted from Download Squad 57 days ago
Filed under: Internet, Web services What's the first thing you do after you layoff 10 percent of your workforce? You go on a buying spree, right? That's what eBay appears to be doing anyway. The company, which currently employs about 15,000 people plans to layoff about 1,000 full time workers as wel... (original story)