PUBLIC MARKS from decembre with tags utilitaire & lifehacker

SmillaEnlarger is an open-source and portable application designed to help you intensively massage an image enlargement to keep it from looking jagged and filled with artifacts. You can select the level of zoom using the zoom slider and the location of the zoom via the selection box.

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Fireclip, a free plug-in that monitors specific sections of web pages, puts the at-a-glance convenience of the OS X widget screen in a Firefox tab. Using Fireclip is darned easy. Activate with a shortcut (Alt+Q) or from the Tools menu, and its sidebar pops out. Hit "Select Clip," and you can mouse around to see the pre-defined sections of the page. Click once, and you'll be asked to re-size your selection with the familiar two-directional arrows at the edges of your are

Linux only: QuickStart, a free automation utility for Ubuntu Linux systems, makes it easy to perform partial or full system backups of any partition, synchronize folders and update them on a schedule, and take care of other tasks a beginner would normally need to spend serious time researching. The tiny app opens a simple interface listing your choices, although dialog prompts guide you through any steps requiring input. The tools for installing DVD playing codecs, backing up your Master Boot Record, and creating synchronized backups seem particularly helpful, and while I haven't tested every function, a handful of them completed without any problems. QuickStart is a free download for Ubuntu systems only; both links below carry non-terminal installation instructions for the script.

"Freeware application Some PDF to Word Converter takes your PDFs and—as the name implies—converts them to Microsoft Word documents."

MusicBrainz,or Mp3tag ?. MediaMonkey! —the same program I relied on to fix my album art. It's free, easy and useful for much more than just metadata modding.

Transfer (and Play) Music to and from Your iPod. Converters: Video and Audiobook. Miscellaneous iPod Utilities. Upgrades for Older iPods. iPhone and iPod touch Only

10 of our favorite, free, point and click software applications and webapps that help you make the most of the giant web of connected computers that is your network.

Lets you create a reminder in Gcal based on the Gmail message you're currently viewing.The extension adds an Add to Gcal link to the bottom of every message. Clicking the link opens an overlaid Gcal window that includes the email subject in the event titl

Windows/Mac/Unix: Free, open source program Jajuk (Just Another Jukebox) is a music management app chocked full of interesting features. For example, Jajuk boasts integration with Wikipedia, several advanced playlisting and filtering tools, automatic cove

There are ten online image editors here, everything from Snipshot to LookWow; and over 25 features are meticulously charted (does it resize? will it remove red-eye?). Make sure you check the Features legend; it goes from "the feature is not available" to