Did you know that, until the end of the month, WinX DVD Author (usually $30) and WinX DVD Ripper (usually $25) are FREE?
With DVD author you can burn loads of file formats to DVD and really make it your own with a personalized title, chapter menus, background images, music and so much more.
And the Ripper, well…rips.
Windows only.
Source: Lifehacker
Don’t want to fork out for professionally printed business cards? Well, you don’t have to.
Make your own professional looking business cards with businesscardstar. For free.
It’s super easy – you just sign up and use one of their 100 starting templates. Then edit away. Be creative.
You can print 8 or 10 cards to a page then print out (compatible with Avery labels).
And if you’re feeling flush, you can even get them to print them for you (at a fair price) with a silk or glossy card finish.
And that’s all Favthumb does. But who needs anything more?
Just sign in with your delicious username and you’ll see a thumbnail grid of all your bookmarked items. Items without thumbnails are either blank or say ‘image coming soon’, which kind of spoils the view, but hey.
Hit the ‘Carousel’ button (top left) and you get a cover flow view (see above).
Apparently, if you put your password in you can see public bookmarks too, but I didn’t go there.
[via Lifehacker]
UPDATE: Favthumbs is no longer working 
It’s pretty hot today. 31 degrees celsius. My mum didn’t get how hot that was ’til I told her it was about 88 degrees fahrenheit (she’s in England, I’m in Canada).
I used this free, simple, online tool to work it out
Next time a telemarketer gets through I’m going to tell them they’ve got the wrong number, my name’s not Geeky Chick, it’s Kate Pugh….
Get your own pseudonym with the Fake Name Generator.
Source: Confessions of a freeware junkie
One of my other favourite yoga podcasts (second only to yogadownload.com) is from yogamazing.com.
As well as getting Chaz to walk and talk you through a 20 minute yoga session, at the moment you can get a free e-book download from Audible at audiblepodcast.com/yogamazing.
Slight catch is you have to sign up for a free 14 day trial, but so long as you cancel the membership before the free trial period is up, you won’t be charged.
Came across this pretty cool website with lots of free woodworking plans for all sorts of projects.
The ‘free woodworking plans’ website gives you just that. Free plans and links to other websites with free plans.
So next time you want to build your own computer desk...
No more invites left…sorry! If anyone has any spare, please share the love. Thank you 
Dropbox were offering some invites today, but if you missed them I’ve got a few to give away.
Just leave a ‘reply’ message (with your email address) below…
If you’re looking for a fast, easy, FREE avatar creator head over to shrinkpictures.com.
It’s simple and very quick (depending on the size of the photo you’ve chosen) and crops the photo into a perfect square. Just browse for your photo, set the size and hit ‘Resize’. All that’s left is for you to pick the variation you want (left, centre or right cropped) and add it to your blog, website, etc…
Evernote, the desktop & web-based note taking software, is out of beta today (and finally working on Firefox 3!)
I’d previously used OneNote 2007 (which comes with MS Office) but I’m liking Evernote a little more.
Although I prefer the ‘notebook’ look and feel to OneNote, I love the ’synchronise’ feature of Evernote – basically whatever I save to my desktop version appears in my web version and vice versa.
Sending/ saving to Evernote is effortless. There’s a web clipper for the web and desktop versions that you can pick up from the website.You can also email stuff direct and even save photos to Evernote. The example they give is taking a phone picture shot of a business card, sending it to Evernote, and it becomes searchable – even any handwriting (whether this works is pretty hit or miss, I find, depending on the clarity of the photo). Overall, it’s too handy not to change over.
And of course you can tag your notes.
I prefer the look of the web version which gives you thumbnails rather than lines of text to look at, but I’m getting used to it. And for free, who wouldn’t?
