If you can watch it, you can download it!

At least you can with the AntVideoDownloader, a plug-in for Firefox and Internet Explorer.  When installed, it adds an icon in the corner of your browser.  When you are on a site that plays any kind of video, simply click on the Ant icon and it will download the video to your hard drive, no questions asked.  There will be an
"Ant Videos" folder in your downloads folder and that is where your video will be.  Quite simple, now you can download all the cat videos from Youtube that you desire!

Free Home Inventory Spreadsheet, download now

As someone who suffered through an apartment fire a few years ago, there was a hard lesson to be learned, keep an inventory of what you own!  Insurance companies are not keen on paying for anything without some proof.  Vertex42 is an excellent site on everything Microsoft Excel.  They are currently making a free home inventory spreadsheet available for all.  Simply download and fill in the information pertaining to your home.  It is already preloaded with common household posessions, but is fully customizable.  Print out or save the document in a safe place and you are good to go in the event of something bad happening. 

Pogoplug review is in!

A couple of days ago, I alerted you to a sale on Pogoplug Premium.  It is a program that allows you to have access to your files on your computer from your smartphone or any other computer that has Internet access.  More importantly, the premium version of the software (sorry, sale over, it's back to $29.95) allows to stream your media on your computer to your devices as well.  After playing with it for a few days, I can say that it works as advertised.  You can set up any files on your computer to be available and you can stream your media to your smartphone (sorry Netflix).   It differs from Remote Access which typically allows you access to the remote computer, this program allows you to access your remote files and use them on the current smartphone/computer that you are on.  It is well worth the money. 

Expand your Clipboard for free!

One of the irritating things about cutting and copying in Windows is that by default, Windows only keeps the last thing you copied or cut on the clipboard.  Well, no more, a free program called Shapeshifter changes that.  When you install this free program, it allows you to copy or cut multiple items to the clipboard and allows you to pick between which entries to retrieve.  Check out the program, it will change how you copy and paste forever.

Apple now has more cash on hand than the Federal Government

So what does it say about our country when Apple has more money than the Federal government?  Maybe America should hit up Apple for a loan.  As of this last quarter, Apple has over 76 Billion in cash on hand.  The government?, a little over 73 Billion.  Keep in mind the Iphone 5 is due out soon, so expect that number to jump up a bit more.  For more, read the article from Time magazine.

American ISP companies sign on to "6 Strike Law".

Mirroring much of what we see going on overseas,  the top ISP provider's in America have voluntarily signed off on a 6 strikes policy towards Copyright Infringement.   

Much of the scheme mirrors what ISPs do now. Copyright holders will scan the 'Net for infringement, grabbing suspect IP addresses from peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. If they see your IP address participating in a swarm for, say, Harry Potter, they will look up that IP address to see which ISP controls it, then fire off a message.

ISPs have committed to forward such notices to subscribers—though, crucially, they won't turn over actual subscriber names or addresses without a court order. This is a one-way notification process.  What it ultimately means for aggressive repeated offenders is unclear.  ISP's certainly do not want to kick customers offline, they do not wan to lose that monthly bill, so where this is ultimately going is unclear.