Hasta La Gadget!

There may not be a ton of Pre apps available just yet, but it looks like there’s enough to accumulate an impressive 666,511 downloads as of June 17th, which likely means that we’re close to or past the 700,000 mark by now. As you can see above in graph form courtesy of Medialets, things have been rising steadily as more and more apps became available, and there’s no noticeable sign of a drop-off even as apps remained around the 30 mark after the end of the first week. Of course, it’s obviously still a little early to draw any firm conclusions, and there’s no telling how things could shake out once the long-awaited PreFart and PreBeer apps make their debut.

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This article was written on April 23, 2009 by CyberNet.

Last week Download Squad dug up a real gem when they found a website called AlternativeTo. This website lists out a lot of really popular applications like Photoshop, Nero, Dreamweaver, and the various Microsoft Office products. Then for each of them it provides alternatives (both free and commercial) that users can choose from.

The whole site uses a voting system to determine what applications are the most popular. What I like is that there are various ways to filter results. By that I mean you can actually have it only show free or open source applications that are alternatives to, for example, Photoshop. So if you’re not looking to spend any money this can really save you some time from trying to hunt down the apps yourself. Plus you can filter according to operating system.

It will be interesting to see if this site really ends up taking off. If it gains some traction it could become a valuable source of information for both consumers and developers… because this would provide developers with a way to promote their apps against that of their competition.

AlternativeTo Homepage

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Windows only
A few weeks ago I received an email from the developer of a Windows application called gAttach, and it looked pretty cool. At the time, however, the program was new and I wanted to give it some time to mature before I gave it a whirl. Since then it has had a handful of updates, and it is on its way to becoming a handy little program.

What is gAttach? It makes it possible to email attachments right from your Windows desktop using your Gmail or Google Apps email account. You can right-click on a file in Windows Explorer, click on email links in your browser, use the email option in Windows Live Photo Gallery, and much more for sending files through Gmail. It basically acts as your default desktop email client.

One of the nice things with this is that it can even handle multiple attachments, which means adding a dozen or so different files to an email isn’t such a pain anymore. Your attachments still have to be under the 20MB limit that Gmail imposes, but you can send quite a bit in that size. After it is done attaching the files all you’ll have to do is check the “Drafts” section in your Gmail account to finish sending it.

There are some downsides to the program though. The biggest one is probably that it uses Internet Explorer to log you in. If you’re not logged in Internet Explorer it will prompt you to do so, and sometimes it would tell me that I needed to login even after I already did. Plus there is no way to rapidly switch between multiple accounts. Hopefully we’ll see these things fixed for a future version.

Are you a Yahoo! Mail user? No problem. The developer has also created a version of the applications that works with Yahoo! Mail dubbed yAttach.

Get gAttach (for Gmail) or yAttach (for Yahoo! Mail)
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This article was written on January 15, 2008 by CyberNet.

Time Saving Tuesday

We’re a few weeks into the new year, and we thought that it would be nice if we helped you with your resolution to trim off some fat…from your computer that is. Today we’re showing off 6 different applications that are all condensed versions of what you might already be using.

Almost all of the programs that we’ve scrounged up are freeware, and we’ve made sure to throw in some you may not be aware of yet. Now lets take your computer to the virtual gym, and we’ll watch those pounds fly off!

–AIM Lite (Freeware)–

One of the things that I like the most about Google Talk is its simplicity. AIM Lite is a slightly new experimental program from the folks over at AOL. Its goal is, in some ways, to make it more like Google Talk. They’ve trimmed things up so that it doesn’t have many features, and in the end the result was a fast little instant messenger. Who would have thought that AOL could make something that wasn’t bloated.

Download: AIM Lite

–Nero Lite & Micro (Commercial/Trial)–

I’ve used Nero for years because I find it to be one of the most powerful CD and DVD burning applications available. One thing that I’ve found, however, is that as time passes Nero continues to get more and more bloated with each subsequent release. It includes more apps that all do things I don’t need. That’s why I’m so appreciative of Nero Lite & Micro!

These apps are not officially endorsed or created by Nero, but they should be. The Nero 8 download weighs in at a whopping 183MB, while Nero Lite and Micro are only 42MB and 20MB respectively. That’s an incredible reduction in size.

For those of you wondering, Nero 8 Lite includes Burning ROM, Express, Cover Designer, and Wave Editor while Nero 8 Micro only has Burning ROM. And yes, you’ll still need to have a serial number to use this after the trial period expires.

Homepage: Updatepack.nl
Download: Nero Lite | Nero Micro
Mirror: Nero Lite

–QuickTime Alternative (Freeware)–

QuickTime Alternative offers a quick way for you to watch QuickTime movies (.MOV) in your browser without needing to install the full program. I know a lot of people who use this to avoid the bloat that the full app includes. Now you can watch all of those Get A Mac ads.

Download: QuickTime Alternative

–Real Alternative (Freeware)–

With Real Alternative you’ll be able to watch Real videos (.RA and .RAM) in Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox, and Netscape. I don’t come across this media all that often in my daily browsing, but I’m sure there are still plenty of sites who use it as a source for streaming content.

Download: Real Alternative

–Adobe Reader Lite (Freeware)–

Adobe Reader Lite removes some shortcuts and disables the license agreement, but more importantly it cuts out some of the fat. By that I mean it removes some of the plugins that regular users like me and you probably won’t use in our lifetime.

While Adobe Reader Lite sounds like a nice thought, I don’t think it is enough to pull users away from Foxit or PDF-XChange.

Download: Adobe Reader Lite

–Winamp Lite (Freeware)–

Winamp comes in several different flavors, one of which is a Lite version. The Lite version comes stripped of a lot of features, including device synchronization and SHOUTcast radio stations. If you just want something that will play your songs, and not much else, then Winamp Lite is what you’re looking for!

Download: Winamp Lite

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It was just last month when Meebo opened their platform to third party developers and already, the first big batch of games have launched.  There are over twenty different games available like classic Checkers, Reversi, Connect 4, and more. Venture Beat calls this an “ambitious move” which it certainly is, and one that will cause “the rest of us” to hear about what a great service is out there. I always thought it was a great idea when Microsoft implemented games into their Messenger, but it’s even more impressive that Meebo has done it with a web-based chat service. Instead of playing games with strangers, you get to play games with your friends.

To access the games, look for the image of a rocket at the top of your chat window and click on it. To the right of the window, a list of games will appear which is shown above. Once you select a game, it will load and you’ll be able to play with someone on your chat list.

Meebo offers a pretty decent incentive to developers of all applications including games which is nice.  Developers can either choose to sell their own ads for their applications (which could potentially result in 100% profit for them), or they can allow Meebo to deliver the ads and share the revenue 50/50. Either way, developers will be making money off of something that they made which is probably enough incentive to continuing developing more applications just for Meebo.

Given the huge progress Meebo has made since they launched, especially over the last few months, I can only imagine what will be next!

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