Tuesday, 9. February 2010
Filed under: Utilities, Web services
We’ve written before on Download Squad about Bit.ly’s plans to offer a premium service, including custom URL shorteners like the ones they provide for sites like The New York Times. Well, Bit.ly Pro has entered a public beta phase now, and you don’t have to be the New York Times to get your own free, custom shortURL.
All you have to do is sign up for a Bit.ly account and find a way to register the domain you want to use for your link shortener. Point your domain to the IP address Bit.ly gives you, and bada-bing-bada-boom, Bit.ly does the rest. You also get all of the analytics services you’ve come to expect from Bit.ly’s non-pro package. The cutoff for a free URL shortener is 10,000 URLs shortened per day. If you’re expecting more traffic than that, you’ll have to contact Bit.ly for a commercial account.
[via The Next Web]
Bit.ly Pro enters open beta — get a free, custom URL shortener! originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tuesday, 9. February 2010
Filed under: Google, Browsers
There’s a very good chance that
Chrome OS tablets — unlike the iPad — will support Adobe Flash. Google is, after all, one of Adobe’s partners in the
Open Screen Project.
Suppose, however, you share the Jobsian distaste for Flash and the CPU abuse perpetrated by carelessly crafted .SWFs. What if you actually want those little blue Legos all over your browser? The answer is simple: there’s an extension for that!
Just install CubeMe, and your Google Chrome will take on a mobile Safari approach to Flash, displaying the mystery block wherever an embed would normally appear. Don’t go expecting configurable blocking like with Flashblock — you’ll get blue Legos, and you’ll bloody well like it!
On a practical note, CubeMe will speed load times on certain sites — though it does make goofing off on ArmorGames a whole lot more complicated…
CubeMe for Google Chrome lets you pretend you’re browsing on an iPad! originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tuesday, 9. February 2010
PortableApps.com has released Atomic Tanks Portable 4.3. Atomic Tanks is a game in which you control an overly-powerful tank and attempt to blow up other highly powerful tanks. Players get to select a number of weapons and defensive items and then attack each other in a turn-based manner. It’s packaged as a portable app, so you can play wherever you’d like. This release updates Atomic Tanks to the latest version. It’s packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it’s open source and completely free.
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Tuesday, 9. February 2010
PortableApps.com developer Steve Lamerton will be representing us at FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels on February 6th and 7th. He’ll be giving a Lightning Talk on the PortableApps.com Platform on Saturday. You may be most familiar with Steve as the developer behind our popular Toucan backup, sync and encryption utility. Hopefully, you can drop in on Steve’s lightning talk Saturday morning. If not, keep an eye out for a red PortableApps.com polo and say hi.
Tuesday, 9. February 2010
Task Coach Portable 0.78.3 has been released. Task Coach Portable is the popular Task Coach packaged as a portable app so you bring your to-do list and task manager with you so you always stay on top of things. This new release updates Task Coach to the latest release and is packaged directly by the Task Coach development team. It’s packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it’s open source and completely free.
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Tuesday, 9. February 2010
PortableApps.com has released the PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 4, making it easier than ever to carry your favorite software with you. This test release is an update of the 2.0 Beta 3 release with the new enhancements from 1.6 included. From 1.6, the latest feature is theme switching and a system tray icon fix. And, as always, it’s all open source and completely free.
The PortableApps.com Suite 2.0 Beta 4 release is available for user to test from the beta forum release announcement. Please post testing-related comments there.
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