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Richard Mclain  |  richard@mariche.com  |  56 posts



ULCPC’s keeping XP around for a few more years…

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Good news for us frugle people. It seems the Microsoft isn’t ready to kill Windows XP just yet. Even after the release of Windows Vista SP 1, it seems that Microsoft still needs to keep XP around due the limited processing power, memory, etc. of these ULCP’s (ultra low-cost PCs).  This seems strange to [...]

#23 Leopard application of the day (Free)

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#23. Argonaut The #23 Free Leopard application is a game. That’s right gaming isn’t just for Windows users any more and there are a number of free games for Mac. This spot was going to be for PlasmaPong ,but since Atari owns the copyright to Pong the site is down.  However, the download is [...]

#24 Leopard application of the day (Free)

→  April 3, 2008 3

#24. The Unarchiver In the 24th spot is a small but great utility to extract files.  I have used this application for many years and it works for 99% of all the archives out there.  Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats. Download here. From [...]

#25 Leopard application of the day (Free)

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I download and try almost any application I can get my hands on.  Over the next 25 days I decided to create a list of the best free mac applications that have survived getting deleted from my machine.   The first app is #25 on the list and it’s SuperDocker.  This is a great application [...]

Free Icons

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Icons are great for web-design, gui-design, and a host of other things like making the desktop of your dream.  However, professional icons can be rather expensive.  Instead of forking over money for icons there are two really good resources for getting them for free.   The first is at interfaceLift they provide free icons which look really slick. [...]

Google does 411 free!

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While sitting in class today I overheard people talking about how they spend roughly $10 per month on 411 charges on their cell phones.  I was shocked, mainly because most cellphones now have internet capabilities and it’s rather easy to search for a listing, but moreover that they had not herd of Googles free 411 [...]