Monday, August 15, 2011

This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]

This Week's Top Downloads Aug 13, 2011 5:00 PM 4,026 0
  • Plan B Locates Your Lost or Stolen Android Phone, Even If You Didn't Install It Beforehand (Android) If you ever lose your phone and don't have a contingency plan in place, you can remotely install Plan B on your phone and locate it instantly.
  • ProEject Disconnects USB Drives Cleanly and Safely (Windows) ProEject is a freeware utility that safely dismounts any removable drive by closing running applications and windows that are based on the drive. It can do this while automatically cleaning the registry and folders of the host computer from any trace the USB drive may have left behind.
  • Lion DiskMaker Creates Mac OS X Lion Install DVDs and Thumb Drives Automatically (Mac) We've shown you how to manually create a bootable Mac OS X Lion DVD or thumb drive, but now an app called Lion DiskMaker can automate the process for you. You just download it, insert the media you want to use to create your install, and let it take care of the rest.
  • Lion Tweaks Fixes Common Annoyances in Apple's Latest OS (Mac) If you upgraded to Mac OS X Lion and immediately started finding system settings and changes you disliked, Lion Tweaks is a utility that gives you one-click access to enable or disable all of Lion's most loved-or hated-new features.
  • nSpaces Adds Easy, Customizable Virtual Desktops to Windows (Windows) There's no shortage of applications that add virtual desktops to Windows, but nSpaces is one of the easiest to use and easiest to set up, complete with hotkeys for desktop switching, program memory so apps always open on the right deskop, and even the ability to password protect virtual desktops for security.
  • Facebook Messenger Mixes Your Facebook Inbox with Group SMS, So You Can Get a Hold of Just About Anyone (Android/iOS/Mobile) Facebook just released a new app for iPhone and Android, which mixes SMS messages and Facebook messaging into a "group messaging" solution for your phone.
  • HTTPS Everywhere Now Supports Secure Browsing on Over 1,000 Sites (Firefox) Firefox extension HTTPS everywhere, which switches your browser to SSL automatically for any web sites where a secure connection is available, just hit version 1.0 and now supports well over 1000 sites, including Facebook, Google, Twitter, Tor, and others.
  • Google Music Manager Now Available for Linux (Linux) The Linux distribution of Music Manager is now available and is pretty much the same as the Windows version with the addition of OGG Vorbis file support. OGG files uploaded will be transcoded automatically to 320kbs mp3 files; this is same process as when FLAC files are uploaded.
  • Publish Sync Automatically Syncs New Posts Between Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and More (Chrome) If you're still looking for a way to easily make your posts on Facebook appear on Twitter or Google+, Publish Sync is a Chrome extension that gives you the flexibility to post the same thing to one or all of your other social networks at the same time.
  • GMusic Puts Google Music In Your Taskbar with a Mini-Player, Support for Media Keys (Windows) If you love Google Music but don't like keeping it open in a tab, GMusic will keep it out of the way until you need it, while also adding full support for the media keys on your keyboard.
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