Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 200 or XP. Jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, Paint.NET is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions. In addition, it is equipped with many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers.

As part of a project at Washington State University, Paint.NET is currently offering to be used for free! This is certainly a cool piece of software to replace your current Microsoft Paint, that comes with Windows.

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Reg Organizer 3.1 Beta 2 offers a variety of tools required for effective System Registry and configuration files management. This software lets you view, edit and clean the Registry and preview the registry files you want to import (preview files directly from Windows Explorer). The automatic Registry cleanup mode helps you optimize your system performance. You can thoroughly search the Registry to find all the keys related to a certain application.

Released: October 12, 2005
Publisher: Chemtable Software
Homepage: Reg Organizer
License: Shareware
OS Support: Windows (All)
Screenshot: Reg Organizer 3.1

According to several people who use Reg Organizer, they were fascinated with the existence of this kind of aggressive tool, that could clean up system registry and truly manage the keys and identify unnecessary ones. Unfortunately, under shareware mode, many of these strong functions are reduced.

Nonetheless, the shareware is free to download and worth a try.

Download Reg Organizer 3.1 Beta 2.

The software costs $29.95 for a registered license.

It’s official. Say hello to Chad and Steve, the worlds newest millionaires. Web-search giant Google has acquired YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion. The acquisition of YouTube makes Google the 500 gorilla of online video. And that’s a perfect place to be at a time when consumers are rapidly increasing the amount of time they spend viewing video clips online, and Internet video advertising is booming.

Thank goodness Rupert Murdoch didn’t buy YouTube.

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This is one of those posts with a loose gadget connection. Google always seem to be busy and have just released into yet another Beta (surprise surprise) Google Reader. It looks like being another online RSS reader where you can subscribe to feeds that are of interest to you. To be honest at the moment it looks a bit ropey but as with many things Google do it will probably become a market leader and hot new product soon enough.

Microsoft recently announced the lineup of games for the initial release of the XBOX 360. Now you might want to get ready to cut and paste all of these game titles, because it will be nearly impossible to remember all of them. Here they are: Project Gotham Racing 3, Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo: Elements of Power.

Yes that’s it. 3 games will be available for the XBOX 360 initially. I’m just going to list them again in alphabetical order this time in case you might have missed them the first time:

Kameo: Elements of Power, Perfect Dark Zero and Project Gotham Racing 3.

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Duke Nukem must be one of the most popular first person shooters ever made, geez it even had action figures at one stage. The latest version Duke Nukem Forever must be one of the longest games in development, ever! Ask the makers 3D Realms about a release date and this is what they say:

The release date of this game is “When it’s done”. Anything else, and we mean anything else is someone’s speculation. There is no date. We don’t know any date. If you have a friend who claims they have “inside info”, or there’s some game news site, or some computer store at the mall who claims they know - they do not. They are making it up. There is no date. Period.

But could this be about to change!

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How would you like to be able to control your temperature of your PC to avoid over-heating? SpeedFan is freeware program that allows user to monitor fan speeds, temperatures and even voltages in computers, equipped with hardware monitoring chips. In addition, SpeedFan also could access S.M.A.R.T. information on the hard disks (provided they supports this feature) to display its temperatures too.

Although SpeedFan is a hardware monitoring application, the most fascinating part is that it could allow you to control the speed of the fans (depending on the type of sensor chip used), in relative to the temperature inside your PC, thereby reducing noise and power consumption.

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You know the scene. The phone rings and that computationally challenged friend / relative / coworker is in trouble. They’ve bought something, installed it and now the screen is asking them all kinds of funny questions. They clicked “yes” to something and all kinds of strange things are happening.

Oh, and they’re 1/2 hours drive away and they have something urgent to do tomorrow and could you please help them out?

Well now you can! Copilot is a very nice implementation of desktop remote control software. It’s based on VNC which is nothing new in itself but their implementation manages to get around things like firewalls so that you can just connect remotely to their PC and have a look for yourself.
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