Kevins Crate.com/Blog

Exploring our Digital World
Subscribe to RSS Feed
get latest updates on
site news and site posts
What is RSS ?

Archive for the ‘Program Crate’ Category

How to Setup Gmail for Offline Viewing

.

Google Labs has now released the long awaited Offline viewing option for its famous Email client Gmail. So now you can sync your mail and read it offline if you wish. It does require you to install Google Gears found here. and it will only sync you newest 10,000 messages but that should be enough [...]

LifeHackers Best of the Best: Software

.
Lifehacker’s Hive Five series Best of the Best is out, staring”What’s the best tool for the job?” The list is from the top user submitted programs in different categories. On to the list. I also included my Fav’s

Google Launches Chrome a New Web Browser

.
Google launched a new web browser called Chrome yesterday, so far it seems to load web pages fasted than Firefox 3 and IE 7 and is displaying pages with no problems on every site I visited. It imported all my bookmarks without a problem. It’s a free download from Google.
One of the nice features of [...]

Lower your Carbon Footprint with Edison

.
Get in the green zone and lower your carbon footprint and save some oil. Here’s a program I found that will help you save a few bucks on your power bill by letting you turn off your monitor spin down your hard drives then put your computer in suspend mode. From the folks at Verdiem

Use the PC Decrapifier to Clean out your new Computer

 
 
How many times have you bought a new computer and turned it on only to find the screen full of trial software. I run into this problem every time I setup a new computer for someone, and I?m sure you have too. Here?s a great program I use to clean out the crap. [...]

Get a Vista Style Start Menu in XP

Do you like the new Vista start menu and its ability to do instant search but aren’t ready to switch to Vista. Well I found a cool program called ViStart from Lee-Soft that gives you a Vista like start Menu with instant search.

Use Mojo to Share and Sync Music with your Friends

 

 
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could connect to your friends music library across the internet and browse their music collection, listen to their music and dare I say download the songs you like to your computer. Then Mojo is your answer. I’ve been using it for a awhile now and really like it. They [...]

10 Dropbox Invites Available for KevinsCrate Readers

 

 
Dropbox is an online file syncing and sharing solution to help you keep files in sync across multiple computers. Dropbox gives you 2 gigs of free storage space that you can use to backup or share files with. The service is in private beta right now but I have 10 invites available to the [...]

Get Firefox 3 Today

 

 
 
Download Firefox 3 today and help Mozilla set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.
With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than before.

Easily Recover Deleted Picture from your Media Cards with the PC Inspector

Have you ever deleted pictures off your cameras media card then realized that was your only copy. Or maybe you or your camera reformatted the card by accident, they you need the free PC INSPECTORâ„¢ smart recovery program. I had to use this program a few time in the past and it worked like [...]