Bulk Edit Tags on Delicious [Delicious]

It’s tucked away, but bookmarking site Del.icio.us now offers bulk tag editing (in, of course, beta) for group tagging/un-tagging and sharing/un-sharing. Helpful stuff, especially for pesky tag typos. Thanks Gergo!

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Mr. Uptime (Finally) Updates for Firefox 3 [Featured Firefox Extension]

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Mr. Uptime, friend to anyone who’s ever waited for the Digg/Slashdot/Lifehacker Effect to abate before reaching a cool new web site, has recently updated to be Firefox 3 compatible.

Not much seems entirely new with Mr. Uptime, available both at its Mozilla home and official page, but that’s probably a good thing. As we noted when we last

CrazyLittleFingers Rewards Your Toddler’s Curiosity [Featured Windows Download]

CrazyLittleFingers is a keyboard locking application. Unlike some of the previous keyboard lockers we’ve covered, CrazyLittleFingers corresponds the keystroke to a picture and sound related to the key.

Press L and you see a picture of a lion. Press R and you see a movie of a rooster. Keys that have no symbolic link for children like the page up and… Continue reading

Exhaustive List of Free Microsoft Downloads [Windows]

Tech evangelist and Microsoft consultant Blake Handler hosts an impressively completist list of free Windows programs offered by Microsoft, dug from the trenches of Del.icio.us tags. It’s a handy bookmark for Control+F hunting. [via]

iTunes May Drop Most Copy Protection, Vary Prices [ITunes Music Store]

The good news: CNET has sources saying the three largest music labels will allow Apple to offer music downloads free of copy-protection. And the bad news might not be that bad.

In exchange for the DRM-free tracks, Apple will reportedly allow labels to push three tiers of pricing. Older songs from the archives will likely get cheaper than 99 cents, songs that… Continue reading

Install-It Creates Auto-Starting Installer CDs for Any Applications [Featured Windows Download]

Windows only: Free app Install-It puts a small auto-starting application on any removable drive that makes installing applications a double-click affair.

After downloading the Install-It package, you’ll want to extract its files to somewhere you can reach, like your desktop, and open up the Install.ini file in your favorite text editor. This file is simply a list of program descriptions and the locations of their installer… Continue reading

Why Your Self-Handicapping Excuses Don’t Work (And How to Fix Them) [Performance]

The New York Times takes a revealing look at self-handicapping excuses—like “I barely slept the night before the test”—and why we create them, as well as the extremely unlikely chance that anyone else buys them.

The short version of the research and studies cited is that we all do it, in varying amounts, to protect our fragile egos. It’s a two-way victory: If you ace a… Continue reading

"Downloading Is Wrong" Trojan Blocks Access to BitTorrent Sites [BitTorrent]

BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak reports on a new piece of malware with a strange bent: If it infects your computer, this trojan will prevent you from accessing popular BitTorrent sites The Pirate Bay and Mininova. It does so by modifying the hosts file on your computer. We’ve shown you how to use the power of the hosts file for good by banning time-wasting web sites

Flickr Gallery Plus Tweaks Flickr for Better Galleries [Featured Download]

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Flickr Gallery Plus Firefox extension or Greasemonkey script make browsing galleries faster and easier in Flickr.

Once installed and set up, Flickr Gallery Plus automatically grabs larger versions of each image in a set so you can view each picture waiting for another page to load. It even turns sets into nice slideshows that fade between photos. Like to navigate photos… Continue reading

Picasa for Mac Beta Released, First Look [Featured Mac Download]

Google has officially released their popular photo management application Picasa for Macs, after years of offering Picasa as a free Windows download.

It’s an exciting announcement for anyone who’s looking for a good photo management app on OS X that isn’t iPhoto or for anyone who’s used and fallen in love with Picasa on Windows or Linux. This release still sports the beta tag, so you can expect a bug… Continue reading