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WikiTaxi Takes Wikipedia Offline (Windows)“Download a full-fledged version of Wikipedia for offline research with freeware application WikiTaxi.”
YouTube File Hack (and Others) Download Clips to Your Desktop (Windows)“Free software YouTube File Hack is a standalone application and Internet Explorer integrated menu item that downloads videos to your desktop from the popular video sharing site.”
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All platforms with Adobe AIR: When you follow enough chatty people on Twitter, some days the noise can overwhelm the signal—that’s when you want TweetDeck, a full-featured desktop Twitter client that groups, filters, and searches incoming tweets for you. TweetDeck’s killer feature is its ability to separate the people you follow on Twitter …
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DIY web site Instructables posts a simple laptop prop stand that dual-purposes your laptop’s power brick as the stand. All you need is some sticky velcro strips, which you affix to the bottom of your laptop and the side of the power brick. Whenever you want to prop up your laptop, just stick the velcro […]

Mac OS X only: Free-for-now boot CD CampTune resizes your Boot Camp partition when the size of the Windows installation on your dual-booting Mac bumps against its limits. Without …
Read more here: CampTune Non-Destructively Resizes Your Boot Camp Partition [Featured Mac Download]

Saturday, Aug. 9 2008 The summer symphony orchestra had their first of two performances last night at Hertz Hall, and will be closing the curtains tonight. We say this figuratively, of course, as Hertz doesn’t actually have a …
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Mac only: The iPhone 2.0 jailbreak utility for Mac, PwnageTool, has just been updated to accommodate the latest iPhone software update from Apple. Re-jailbreak your iPhone 3G, first gen iPhone, or iPod touch running the 2.0.1 …
The rest is here: Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 Jailbreaks iPhone 2.0.1 Software [Featured Mac Download]

How-to web site Instructables has a step-by-step guide detailing how to repurpose your classic (but broken) NES as a lunchbox. All you’ve got to do is gut your Nintendo’s innards and add hinges (though a handle would be nice). You’ll also need a Sasquatch action figure if the guide is to be believed, but […]

Forbes just published its list of the 15 hardest-drinking cities in America. Portland ended up #13. Looks like we’re going to have to double down on the Bar Fly tour buses. Here’s one that looks interesting. Digging a little deeper, …
Continued here: Portland has some work to do

Windows only: Lightweight application PDFMerge combines and splits PDF files. Specify page ranges from each document you’re merging and manipulate bookmarks, too. Preserve existing document bookmarks in a new bookmark tree or omit them altogether. Run PDFMerge from the command line or from the included GUI. PDFMerge is no-frills merging program so if you […]

Leading design and user interface company Adaptive Path released a series of concept videos that show how they envision the web will work in the future called Aurora. Designed and narrated by Jesse James Garrett ( a.k.a. “the AJAX guy”), Aurora shows off some advanced tech in everyday life situations in four parts. If […]