During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.

F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

Browser Chooser is a small tool acting as the default browser allowing you to choose what browser to open the link in. It gives you the flexibility to choose what browser to use for any given task.

Greenshot is a revolutionary screenshot tool optimized for productivity.

* Save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second.
* Apply text and shapes to the screenshot.
* Offers capture of window, region or full screenshot.
* Supports several image formats

Helicon Focus is a program that creates one completely focused image from several partially focused images by combining the focused areas. The program is designed for macrophotography, microphotography and hyperfocal landscape photography to cope with the shallow depth-of-field problem.

KeePass, the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.

OpenTTD is an Open Source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe

This Screen Ruler is a great tool that allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen. This is especially useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas or Centimeters.

This is really awesome: Microsoft Windows 7 Build 6956 is running on the Asus Eee PC 900! I’m not kidding, it’s true! Without DVD drive, it’s kinda difficult, but after doing a few tricks and using a USB thumb drive instead of a DVD, the installation is working.

The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army of humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, trolls or any of the other races and beat those who dare to oppose you. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures...

There are utilities that will make sure you have the important files from your desktop computer on your netbook and others to help get around any of the compromises using a small computer sticks you with. We’ve looked at a lot of netbooks, and here are our seven must-have utilities for netbooks running Windows XP.

As I'm sure some of you are aware, my 1000H is dual-booting WinXP and Kubuntu. I think I've spent enough time taming Kubuntu, now it's time to move onto taming the big dog.. Windows XP. Let's start by cleaning up some of the junk on the base XP install. Admittedly it's not as bad as some machines (I once tried to clean up the base install on a Vaio for a friend - operative word: tried), it isn't as fast as it could be...

FlickrMetadataSynchr is a tool that allows you to synchronize metadata added to images stored on Flickr with the original versions of those images stored locally on your hard drive. If you don't have the original version on your hard drive, the application can download the missing pictures for you. The app can sync the metadata two-way on a picture-by-picture and metadata field-by-field basis.

Go-oo has built in OpenXML import filters and it will import your Microsoft Works files. Compared with up-stream OO.o, it has better Microsoft binary file support (with eg. fields support), and it will import WordPerfect graphics beautifully. If you are reliant on Excel VBA macros - then Go-oo offers the best macro fidelity too. If you expect your spreadsheets to calculate compatibly, or you get embedded Visio diagrams in your documents, you'll want Go-oo.

Pingus is a free Lemmings-like game covered under the GNU GPL. It features currently 22 playable levels and runs under a wide variety of operating systems (Linux, Windows, etc.)

today we'll set up a nightly automated Gmail backup using the command line program fetchmail, which will go out, grab your newest messages, save 'em to your hard drive and exit, all while you sleep soundly in the knowledge that you've got an offline copy of your important email.

“One of these days, I’m going to write a book called, ‘The Basics.’ It’s going to be a compendium of the essential tech bits that you just assume everyone knows–but you’re wrong.

Stitcho is a new desktop notification widget for websites, with support for Windows and Mac.

Uitleg hoe je de default installatie locatie van programma's in XP kunt aanpassen in het register van Windows.

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

"Q. Is it possible to install Ubuntu Linux on my Windows XP computer so I can have both systems on one machine — without having to reinstall Windows?" - WTF, the NY Times is answering questions abotu Ubuntu?

Get-You is a tool for downloading, searching and watching videos from videosites like Youtube, Dailymotion, MyVideo, Clipfish, Yahoo-Video, Google-Video, Myspace-Video and many more!

Your favorite web applications have been running in a Browser for too long. They're trapped in tabs, crammed between a gossip column, driving directions and an image search for cats. With Bubbles, your web-apps are a click away. super-charged with new features like customized notification windows, even when your web-app is minimized.

You love working inside your Linux desktop, but at the most inconvenient times you've got to reboot into Windows—whether to open a tricky Office file, try out a Windows application, or even just play a quick game. However, with some free tools and a Windo

Have you ever forgotten your Excel workbook or sheet password? Here you can download a FREE Excel add-in that removes/cracks sheet and workbook password protection in Excel®.

This is the Skype API Plugin for Pidgin/libpurple/Adium. If you're already running Skype, you can have your Skype contacts displayed with your Pidgin/libpurple/Adium contacts. It is intended as a complete replacement for the Skype user interface, hopefull

It makes sense to point out some mistakes that I still see even savvy Windows users make, and perhaps convince you to break the habit. Here, then, are Windows applicaitons you should never need to install on your system.

JPEGCrops is a Windows program, created for preparation of a batch of images for printing. It provides lossless cropping with fixed aspects using jpegtran.

jBrout is a photo manager. * manage albums/photos (= folders/files) * tag photos with IPTC keywords * use internal jpeg thumbnail * comment photos (with jpeg comment) and album (textfile in folder) * rotate loss-less jpeg (and internal jpeg thumbnail)

Windows only: Free utility ImgBurn writes any disk image to a CD or DVD quickly and easily.

Freeware application ted (torrent episode downloader) is like Tivo for BitTorrent, providing an easy-to-use interface for setting up season pass downloads for your favorite television shows.

Uitleg waarom Linux bijna altijd beter is (dan Windows).

Simplify your finances with Moneydance, the groundbreaking personal finance manager! Whether you want to organize your finances, manage your budget, track your portfolio, or just automatically balance your checkbook, Moneydance is the solution for you.

Since I often hear from friends and people on the Internet about things they can't do in Linux that they could on Windows, I thought I'd write up a list of things I can do in Linux that I can't do in Windows.

Open Workbench is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. Already the scheduling standard for more than 100,000 project managers worldwide, Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative

MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. Based on a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as

InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

Make your Windows desktop look like the default Ubuntu desktop.

Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn't take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it both on Windows and on Linux.

"Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background."

"It's really hard to miss how Linux and Windows are relatively judged in the tech blogosphere. Consider the following attributes and their praise or criticism, completely based on what operating system they happen to accompany" - So true!

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features: * High detection rates for viruses and

"Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com's S3™ Storage Service."

"Here's a program that will semi-automatically download album cover images for your music collection. All you have to do is point it at the root of your music directory and for each directory, the program will download a set of corresponding (well, best g

Neat Image is a filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in photographic images produced by digital cameras and scanners. Neat Image is indispensable in low-light (indoors, night, astro) and high-speed (sport, action) photography. It is a tool fo