Life Clerks

If you’d like to save a web site for posterity without the mess of saving the page and all its files, the web-based HTML to PDF Converter can crank out a PDF.
The service is pretty straightforward,…

Original post by Jason Fitzpatrick

Maximum PC takes an in-depth look at the stable and beta releases of the big names in the browser wars, rounding up in all 9 incarnations of browser’s competing to be your gateway to the web (Firefox…

Original post by Adam Pash

Reader Design Hobo’s desktop was made to look like the top of an actual desk—complete with coffee stained paper and sticky notes.
Similar to the popular Enigma desktop, this desktop is also…

Original post by The How-To Geek

Another work week’s in the books, and you deserve a little bit of Friday R&R. Step inside, my friends; it’s this week’s open thread. Photo by Ellen Flaherty.
“What’s this open thread?” you say. I’m…

Original post by Adam Pash

Windows only: You’ve got a hard drive filled with media, but no idea what you want to watch or listen to next. Pick Me produces a list of random files for you to choose from.
Pick Me is a really,…

Original post by Jason Fitzpatrick

Windows only: Application launcher Magic Formation adds a circular dock that can be triggered by hotkeys or mouse gestures—just draw a circle on the desktop to make it show up.
Using the…

Original post by The How-To Geek

TwitteReader puts the updates of those you’re following on Twitter in a familiar skin, turning favorites into stars, tracking read and unread tweets, and letting you quickly reply or link from one…

Original post by Kevin Purdy

Fred Daily, tax attorney and author of Stand Up to the IRS, has put the book’s entire content up online, and it’s a great read if you and the tax collectors are having some disagreements.
Photo by…

Original post by Kevin Purdy

If you’d like to make an animated GIF but don’t want mess around with downloading software, GifNinja is a web-based application for converting images and video into animated GIFs. Sample inside. …

Original post by Jason Fitzpatrick

Hulu is was is [UPDATES: See below] back on Boxee. The latest version of the media center includes support for the streaming service’s feeds, bringing popular TV shows and movies back to Macs,…

Original post by Kevin Purdy