Cut the Rope

has long been available on iPhone and Android mobile phones but this is the first time you can play the popular hit for free in your HTML5-powered Internet Explorer 9 browser.

For launch Cut the Rope for IE9 features 25 candy-filled levels (with 7 unlockable in the game itself).

Play Cut the Rope for free in your browser

Unlock extra levels

Pin Cut the Rope to your Windows taskbar to unlock additional levels unique to this version.

Pinning to your taskbar is easy: Drag your Cut the Rope browser window by clicking next to the address bar – you should see the prompt ‘Drag to taskbar to pin site’. Drag it over your taskbar to successfully pin it.

Magisto’s promise: Give us your unedited footage, and we’ll give you a short movie that you can proudly show off to friends and family.

We made Magisto to give people a way to take their videos and turn them into movies that are fun to watch and easy to share.”

You can upload up to 16 video files, add a title and soundtrack — select from available tracks or add your own — and then sit back and wait for an email to notify you that your mini movie is ready to be shared

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Windows 7: FileSearchEx is a freeware utility for Windows 7 that searches through files faster than the default Windows search. Modeled after the Windows XP search, it features a simple, familiar interface and a variety of search filters.

Once installed, you can search for files within any folder and order your results by the details you see in the screenshot above, making it easy to search through millions of items. In our tests, it’s faster than than the standard Windows search and the variety of filters helps tailor the results to what you’re looking for. Since it’s a portable application with low system requirements, you can send it across multiple computers easily and you can add a context menu if you’d like a right-click option to search through folders.

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  Use the unique powers of the Angry Birds to destroy the greedy pigs’ fortress…

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Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud storage services, in part because of its simplicity. The free account comes with 2 GB of storage, and you can use it to automatically sync across Windows, Mac and Linux computers whenever you upload new files to it. There are also apps for iPhone/iPad, Android and Blackberry mobile devices. Installation is drop-dead easy. A folder is created on your desktop and you simply drag and drop files into it.. Then you can access those files from anywhere. You can even share files with other people.

Google Web-based Android Market

Googles new Web-based Android Market online store that will make it easier for people to get to new applications for their smartphones and tablets.

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LIBOX automatically syncs your media collection across your computers and streams it to any browser or mobile device so it is available anywhere you want it.

A French startup hopes to be the one of the first, if not the only, app store for Windows.

AllMyApps originally launched in 2009, with the idea that the site could suggest a suite of free apps that could be installed on a new PC. In December, a beta version of the company’s app store entered beta; now, by the end of the first quarter, a final version will be launched

"We want to make sure it easy to manage and discover all the applications on a PC," Favre said.

For now, the site looks somewhat like other app stores on the Web: apps are broken down into different categories ("communications," "security," "office," "audio," and more). The site provides about 1,500 apps at the moment, divided between locally-installed apps and those Web apps that live in a browser.

According to Favre, AllMyApps will also share characteristics common to other app stores: consolidating a list of all of the apps a user has installed, sharing them, and auto-updating them behind the scenes. AllMyApps will go a step farther, however, and allow users to transfer their apps to other PCs, like Valve Software’s Steam service, as well as back them up to the cloud.

The company’s games will be casual, however; Favre said that he does not wish to take on Steam directly.

Thanks to PC Mag for thee link

Thanks to CNet for this story

The photo service takes full advantage of Windows 7′s side-scrolling interface, offering a smooth transition that takes you from recent content to tagged photos to a screen that lets you explore the larger Flickr library.* Clicking on any image takes you to a screen that offers the full array of features: you can read and add comments, as well as view location info if available. Photos with GPS tags can also be viewed on a map that will show others Flickr user pics nearby.

The app takes things a step further on the tablet, offering an innovative browsing mode for viewing or discovering groups of photos. There’s also a cool faded-out copy of each photo as the background for each individual pic page. Really, words don’t do this software justice, which is why Flickr has also released this demo video.

Flickr for Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 is free and will be available to users at the end of this month.

A few (relatively) quick words on ESTA (or the ‘Electronic System for Travel Authorisation’, to use its mouthful of a proper title), the now mandatory and soon to be charged-for requirement for anyone wishing to make their merry way to the USA.

I wrote a blog on this in November 2008, when ESTA was still a twinkle in George W. Bush’s eye. Introduced two months later (in January 2009) as an optional part of travel to America, it has since – as of January 2010 – been made compulsory. Simply, if you do not submit a successful ESTA application – a process that takes your passport number, date of birth and other details, and uses them to check that you are a person without criminal record or any other black mark that might disbar you from entering the country – before you try to fly to the States, then you won’t be allowed onto the plane.

Why mention this again? Mainly for the reason that, although the ESTA application

process has been free up to now, as of September 8th, it will come with a charge – $14 (£9). But if you apply in the next seven days, the system is still gratis – so this is something worth doing (click here for the official ESTA site). Granted, £9 is not a vast amount, but with an application needed for every traveller, that quickly stacks up to £36 for a family of four – a sharp poke in the bank balance that you probably don’t need at a time when Air Passenger Duty is adding an extra levy onto the cost of travel.

Happily, the number that you are given if your application is successful does not apply to any particular journey – it is valid for two years (or until your passport expires, whichever is sooner), and for multiple trips. So if you think you might be flying across the Pond any time soon, my advice is to complete an application before September 8th rolls around. You don’t need to supply specific details of when you will be arriving and where you will be staying – and it makes sense. Times are tight, every penny counts, no use wasting cash, cor blimey gov, we’ve just come out of recession etc etc.

A second reason for writing about ESTA again is that it still seems to be a source of confusion. Comments have appeared steadily at the bottom of my original blog, some telling tales of woe, others reporting the plainest of sailing. So, in short, your ESTA number replaces the I-94 form – the green card that you formerly had to fill in, usually on a wobbly plane tray-table, then hand to the immigration officer on arrival. Basically, ESTA is a stream-lining of the square-dance for entering the US. It does not guarantee you a passport stamp, but it is less fiddly than the previous situation.

Applying is also – though the comments on my previous blog imply that this is not always the case – pretty straight-forward. Having not visited the US for 18 months or so, I finally submitted my application last week, and found that it was approved almost as soon as the final mouse click had sent my personal minutiae into cyberspace.

That said, a third reason for returning to this topic is the concern that many people are not so much confused about ESTA as entirely unaware of its existence. I flew out of Gatwick a fortnight ago (not to America) and noticed that the boards behind the Virgin Atlantic desks were reminding passengers that an ESTA number is now a must-have. If I were picky, I might say that highlighting this matter just as people are trying to check in for a flight they have already paid for is akin to closing the stable door when the horse is halfway to the horizon wearing a fake moustache and a wig – but the fact that Virgin feel the need to point this out indicates that there is something of a problem here. Admittedly, in these days of iPhones and PDAs, you could, theoretically, apply for an ESTA at the check-in desk (though you are supposed to do so at least 72 hours before you fly) – but then, this is an extra thing to worry about in the fraught environment of an airport when you are already late and have to make your way through security.

Of course, the issue of why we should have to pay for permission to enter a country with whom we have a longstanding alliance – and which accepts some four million Britons a year, most of them travelling for holidays – is a distinctly thorny one. Officially, the $14 fee has been brought in to help raise a marketing fund to promote the USA as a tourist destination. That this money is being raised from tourists already fully aware of America’s charms is an irony that seems to be lost on those involved.

Nonetheless, ESTA is now a fixture and – as of next week – demanding of a credit card. So, to repeat, click here to apply. A wave of unofficial ESTA sites have sprouted online in the wake of its introduction. Ignore them. This is the only site you should use.

(You can find further clarification on ESTA here, from the Visit USA website).