March 2012
54 posts
TextEdit
TextEdit is a versatile text editor included in Mac OS X. http://bit.ly/wSh3mL
System Preferences
System Preferences is the application used by Mac OS X to modify user preferences. A variety of preference panes for controlling the current user session, networking, hardware and other settings are included with Mac OS X. Additionally, preference panes can be installed by third party installers for hardware devices or system-wide utilities. http://bit.ly/zU7CcV
iCal
iCal is a personal calendar application made by Apple Inc. that runs on the Mac OS X operating system. iCal was the first calendar application to offer support for multiple calendars and the ability to publish/subscribe calendars to WebDAV server. http://bit.ly/w9OwA9
February 2012
90 posts
Internet Explorer
Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer; abbreviated to MSIE or, more commonly, IE), is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. It has been the most widely used web browser since 1999, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003 with IE5 and IE6....
MSDN
The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) is the portion of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm’s relationship with developers: hardware developers interested in the operating system (OS), developers standing on the various OS platforms, developers leveraging the API and scripting languages of Microsoft’s many applications. The relationship management is situated in assorted...
Opera
Opera is a web browser that lets you surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way. One of the most full-featured Internet power tools on the market, it includes features such as: mouse gestures, Opera Turbo, Speed Dial, Opera Link, customisation, zooming, Opera Mail, Widgets, Opera Unite, integrated web search, content blocking, sophisticated tabs, and more. http://bit.ly/wRbUvX
Windows Live Movie Maker
Windows Live Movie Maker (codename Sundance) is a video creating/editing software that is a part of Microsoft’s Windows Live initiative. It is intended to replace Windows Movie Maker that is currently included in Windows Vista, similar to the way Windows Live Photo Gallery replaces Windows Photo Gallery. Windows Live Movie Maker is a complete rewrite of the Windows Movie Maker application,...
WordPress
Wordpress.com is not to be confused with Wordpress.org Whish is a framework you can host on your own server or a hosted server. WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and...
Topsy
Twitter search engine that specializes in presenting search results based on retweeting. On the search results page they give a list of most frequent authors as well as a list of items that have been most frequently retweeted. At the moment, they say, it is limited to searching twitter. One assumes that means they expect to expand beyond twitter at some point. http://bit.ly/zeMlu4
Finder
The Finder is the default application/program used on the Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems that is responsible for the overall user-management of files, disks, network volumes and the launching of other applications. As such, the Finder acts like the shell on other operating systems, but using a graphical user interface. It was introduced with the very first Macintosh computer, and also...
AirPort Utility
AirPort Utility is the simple to use, setup and management utility for the AirPort Express Base Station, the AirPort Extreme Base Station, and Time Capsule. http://bit.ly/wFwqE3
Safari
Safari is a graphical web browser developed by Apple and included as part of the Mac OS X operating system. It renders web pages at lightning speed. It works on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. It shows you your favorite sites at a glance. Note: Wakoopa can’t track websites you visit in Safari for Windows. http://bit.ly/yXSZaY
CBA
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mIRC
mIRC is a shareware Internet Relay Chat client for Windows, created in 1995 and developed by Khaled Mardam-Bey. Although it is a fully functional chat utility, its integrated scripting language makes it extensible and versatile. mIRC is very popular, having been downloaded almost nine million times from CNET’s download.com service as of March 2007. Nielsen Net Rankings also ranked mIRC among...
Unity
Unity acts as a runtime for many different games and applications. Wakoopa can’t make a distinction between these applications yet. Unity is a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application that just happens to contain the most powerful engine this side of a million dollars. Unity is an integrated authoring tool for...
HijackThis
HijackThis is a free utility which quickly scans your Windows computer to find settings that may have been changed by spyware, malware or other unwanted programs. HijackThis creates a report, or log file, with the results of the scan. http://bit.ly/yCSozW
Mozilla Add-ons
Mozilla Add-ons is Mozilla’s official site for add-ons for Mozilla software, such as Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and Sunbird. Add-ons let users add new features and change the way the user’s browser or application works. http://bit.ly/u7YrOl
Maxthon Browser
Maxthon is a full-featured internet browser that aims at bringing most important functionality without using any plugings. The following features are supported out of the box: tabbed browsing, ads filtering, super drag & drop (unique feature), automatic forms filling, mouse gestures, feed reading, automatic proxy switching, screen capturing etc. More can be done with plugins. Very configurable...
Notepad++
Notepad++ is a free, open source (GPL) source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the Microsoft Windows environment. This project, based on the Scintilla editor component, is written in C++ and uses STL. http://bit.ly/yqIxSI
EmpireAvenue
A social stock market game and social network. Buy stocks in friends, meet new people, join communities and gain share price value for social media use on the web. Also an online game where you can become a millionaire trading stocks in people, creating content on other social sites that affect your own share price and get paid virtual money (eaves) for all your gaming strategy. Use Empire Avenue...
MySpace
MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. http://bit.ly/zxRoWB
Google+
Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written Google Plus, sometimes abbreviated as G+) is a social networking service operated by Google, Inc. The service launched on June 28, 2011 in an invite-only “field testing” phase. The following day, existing users were allowed to invite friends, who are above 18 years of age, to the service to create their own accounts. This was suspended the next...
Flash Player
The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing animations and movies using computer programs such as a web browser; in common usage, Flash lets you put animation and movies on a web site. http://bit.ly/wTeNDR
Vimeo
Vimeo is a video-centric social network site. The site supports embedding, sharing, video storage, and allows user-commenting on each video page. Users must register to upload content. Vimeo is centered on creations of the users. The disclaimer says: “You can only update videos you created. ‘I have permission’ ≠ ‘I have created it’ ” http://bit.ly/yYd6Ag
Klout
Klout allows you to track the impact of your opinions, links and recommendations across your social graph on Twitter. Service collect data about the content you create, how people interact with that content and the size and composition of your network. From there, Klout analyze the data to find indicators of influence and then provide you with tools to interact with and interpret the data....
K-Meleon
K-Meleon is a web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows API to create the user interface (instead of using Mozilla’s cross-platform XUL layer), and as a result, is tightly integrated into the look and feel of the Windows desktop; this approach is similar to that of Galeon and Epiphany (for the GNOME...
Posterous
Posterous is a simple web publishing platform via email. Text and files can be uploaded to the site via email. http://bit.ly/wISWBK
Safari
Safari is a graphical web browser developed by Apple and included as part of the Mac OS X operating system. It renders web pages at lightning speed. It works on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. It shows you your favorite sites at a glance. Note: Wakoopa can’t track websites you visit in Safari for Windows. http://bit.ly/yXSZaY
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking website launched on February 4, 2004. The free-access website is privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. The...
Windows Live Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail, formerly known as MSN Hotmail and commonly referred to simply as Hotmail, is a free web mail service of the Windows Live brand provided by Microsoft. After you use the service for more then 1 year, you will be rewarded with unlimited email space. http://bit.ly/w59y9y
Yammer Desktop
Yammer Desktop Application, built with Adobe AIR. This sleek and agile application enables you to: - Send and receive messages to co-workers - Participate in and view discussion threads - View and participate in Groups - Be notified of new messages when the application is minimized - Follow co-workers - Choose between various color schemes - Easily toggle between multiple accounts or networks -...
RockMelt
RockMelt does more than just navigate Web pages. It makes it easy for you to do the things you do every single day on the Web: share and keep up with your friends, stay up-to-date on news and information, and search. And of course, RockMelt is fast, secure, and stable because it’s built on Chromium, the open source project behind Google’s Chrome browser. It’s your browser – re-imagined and built...
Nimbuzz
Nimbuzz is a new-generation mobile service, designed for the online age, making you more mobile. The multi award-winning Nimbuzz application enables people to enjoy free & low cost mobile calls, free instant messaging, social networking and other rich communication features, using the internet capabilities of the their mobile device. At the heart of Nimbuzz is the live Contact list – an...
Skype
Skype is a peer-to-peer Internet telephone network founded by the entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, also founders of the file sharing application Kazaa. Skype can be used to call people anywhere in the world for free. It competes against existing open VoIP protocols such as SIP, IAX, and H.323. The Skype Group, acquired by eBay in October 2005, is headquartered in Luxembourg, with...
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on 2 September 2008, and the public stable release was on 11 December 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or “chrome”, of web browsers. http://bit.ly/uWIx98
Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements some current web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards. Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find,...
Wakoopa
Wakoopa is the perfect place for people to discover software online. When you sign up, you also install a small tracker that keeps tabs on what software you use. This creates an online profile for you to share with the world, and also gives you updates and recommendations on what your friends and others are using. http://bit.ly/xRxGkI
Microsoft Sticky Notes
Microsoft Sticky Notes is provided with Windows 7 and Vista. It allows you to use different coloured sticky notes with different fonts. This is used as a gadget in the now-defunct Windows Sidebar, where it has been stripped out of Windows 7 and is now a standalone gadget. http://bit.ly/x9feMv
Windows Explorer
Windows Explorer is an application that is part of modern versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for accessing the file systems. It is the component of the operating system that presents the user interface on the monitor and enables the user to control the computer. It is sometimes referred to as the Windows GUI shell, or simply Explorer....
CoolNovo
CoolNovo (previously ChromePlus) has all the features that Google Chrome has. Furthermore, CoolNovo adds some useful features such as mouse gestures, Super Drag, IE tab, etc. CoolNovo is free with no functional limitations. http://bit.ly/y0ouVA
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft Office OneNote, usually referred to as Microsoft OneNote, is a tool for notetaking, information gathering, and multi-user collaboration by Microsoft. While many earlier systems relied on linear text flow (simple lists), OneNote visualizes notes as a two-dimensional page. OneNote also adds modern features such as drawings, pictures, multimedia audio, video, and ink as well as multi-user...
GNOME Control Center
This package contains configuration applets for the GNOME desktop, allowing to set accessibility configuration, desktop fonts, keyboard and mouse properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user interface properties, screen resolution, and other GNOME parameters. It also contains a front end to these applets, which can also be accessed with the GNOME panel or the Nautilus file manager....
Network Manager Applet
NetworkManager is a piece of software for Linux to easily manage network connections. http://bit.ly/yn2IWX
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Editions of Windows Media Player were also released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris, but have since been...
Zootool
Zootool is a new kind of bookmarking solution, or over and above rather a personal organizer, making it easy to collect, manage and share your favourite images, videos, documents and links from all over the web, while equally allowing uncomplicated, quick access to your web-pieces collection. http://bit.ly/xgCtW6
Twitter
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to publish updates (known as tweets) and read other users’ updates (also known as tweets). Twitter offers ‘lists’ which allow you to group your followers and/or non-followers into different lists (public or private), so perhaps subjects include family, friends, co-workers, etc. This is especially...
Windows Color Management
Microsoft Windows Color Control Panel for Color Management. Included with Windows Vista, and provided to Windows XP users through the Windows Genuine Advantage site. http://bit.ly/wlJuOB
Pypy
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Posterous io for twitpic
http://bit.ly/AeLmUd
Yammer
Yammer is a microblogging service launched in September 2008. Like Twitter, it allows users to post updates of their activities, follow others updates, tag content, and create memes. Unlike Twitter, Yammer focuses on businesses, and only individuals with the same corporate email address can join a given network. http://bit.ly/xxLs8O