Application of the Day

I often want an easy way to kill a window, task or process on Windows.  TaskKiller provides the ability to easily kill processes.

Give Songbird a try.  Built in SHOUTcast player, lots of audio codecs and

last.fm scobbler and SkreemR search makes this a great audio player.

Check out the Lenware XM Radio Player, nice little upgrade from the XM web based player.

Pidgin is hands down the best multi-protocol cross-platform instant messaging client.  The other day I cam across a Facebook IM plugin, pretty cool other than the fact that it looks like I am on Facebook all day now

I have been a long time user of Pandora because of its simplicity.  I never really got into Last.fm mostly because I don’t really have time to social bookmark music.  I really like newcomer Finetune, it appears as if they fall somewhere between Pandora and Last.fm, the Finetune Adobe Air desktop client is also nicely done.

Many twitters have used or heard of twirl which is great for twitting but does not support Facebook.  Feedalizr is a newcomer but this Adobe Air app is well positioned to eclipse twirl, if you are a power twitter you may still find a need for TweetDeck to organize your tweets.

Why download torrents with you main desktop or laptop when you can re-purpose an old PC as a torrent server.  TorrentFlux is a great PHP web based torrent client.  Once you use it you will never go back to desktop torrent applications.  There is also a TorrentFlux virtual appliance that you can download from here.

I have been using Jinzora, previously know as Netjuke for years and I love it.  For anyone one with a large mp3 collection this is the app for you.

Since twitter disabled the ability to search for people Twellow is an essential tool to find twitters

If you are like me you probably hate the fact that Google moved the tabs on your iGoogle page from the top to a left hand sidebar which serves little to no purpose other than to consume precious screen real estate.  I found a Greasemonkey script which disables the annoying sidebar.

1. This applies to Firefox only.  If you use an alternative browser like IE, Opera, etc… you can usually make Greasemonkey scripts work but I am not providing a tutorial here.
2. Download the Greasemonkey add-on Firefox
   • I recommend downloading the Greasefire add-on as well
3. Download the Greasemonkey script to disable the left hand iGoogle sidebar