Beef Up Your Firefox Downloads with DownThemAll 1.0 [Featured Firefox Extension]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/243569233/beef-up-your-firefox-downloads-with-downthemall-10

Firefox/Thunderbird (Windows/Mac/Linux): If you download a lot of files through your browser, chances are Firefox's default download manager doesn't really impress. Luckily there's DownThemAll, the free Firefox extension and download manager that makes managing, speeding up, and supercharging your downloads a breeze—and today, DownThemAll has updated to their 1.0 release (after over a year without a major release). The new DownThemAll boasts more stability, increased performance, an updated interface, along with a few new features. DownThemAll is free, works with virtually any Mozilla application. If you're new to the download manager, check out our guide to DownThemAll.

DownThemAll [Firefox Add-ons via DownThemAll]

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Definition Inspiration from Visual Thesaurus [Webapps]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/243994096/definition-inspiration-from-visual-thesaurus

View the relationships between words using webapp Visual Thesaurus which displays synonyms, antonyms, adverbs, and adjectives for any particular search word. Enter a phrase in the search box. Your search term will appear in the center of the screen and additional nodes will crop up to indicate related terms. Click on any of these nodes to dig deeper and get more word associations. Mouseover any node to get a quick definition. Visual Thesaurus is a powerful tool that quickly builds vocabulary. The only downside is that the application runs for a limited amount of queries and then you're prompted to pay the $2.95/month fee. (Tip: Reopen the Java application and you can run additional searches.) Previously mentioned VisuWords does nearly the same thing (albeit slower) and is completely free.

Visual Thesaurus

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Make a Wish List from del.icio.us with del.ishli.st [Del.icio.us]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/244831353/make-a-wish-list-from-delicious-with-delishlist

Having an easily-accessible wish list means not having to be unpleasantly surprised at your friends and relatives' ... creativity when a birthday, holiday, or plain old surprise rolls around. Rather than creating separate, often hard-to-find wish lists on sites like Amazon or Newegg, del.isili.st can pull any sites you've tagged on social bookmarking site de.icio.us with the phrase "wishlist" and display them on a clean, white page of links. The main drawback is that you have to keep the del.icio.us links public, so anyone could potentially see your material goods fixations, but most wish lists are public on other sites anyway. Del.isihli.st is a free site and requires no sign-up.

del.ishli.st [via etc.]

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Create Electronic Greeting Cards from Flickr with Phreetings [Ecards]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/244394673/create-electronic-greeting-cards-from-flickr-with-phreetings

Create greeting cards in a flash using Flickr photos with webapp Phreetings (which quite appropriately stands for photo + greetings). Simply enter in a search phrase and watch as hundreds of images come up. Drag the image of your choosing into a separate pane. Enter a greeting phrase and choose a color scheme. Phreetings will generate a random URL that you can then send off to your friends. The process takes all of 30 seconds and it addictive to use with the number of thumbnails that come up for your choosing.

Phreetings (Photo + Greetings) [via GeekSugar]

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Record companies don't share money extorted from file-sharing fans with artists

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/243193843/record-companies-don.html

The record industry has sued over 20,000 music fans to "protect artists' copyrights." But they haven't turned over any of the money to artists (of course, they never forked over any of the money from my.mp3.com, Grokster, Napster, etc).

A contingent of prominent artist managers claims that little to none of that money has trickled down to their clients. They are now considering legal action.

"Artist managers and lawyers have been wondering for months when their artists will see money from the copyright settlements and how it will be accounted for," said lawyer John Branca, who has represented Korn, Don Henley, and The Rolling Stones, among others. "Some of them are even talking about filing lawsuits if they don't get paid soon."

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