Once installed the software sits in the background and keeps tabs on your activity. Productivity Meter tracks the active versus idle time, how your active time is split among applications, which applications were used the most, and which websites you browsed and for how long. You can review the stats for the last day, week, month or a user defined block of time. One of the most useful features is the ability to tag programs, windows, and domains. It would be entirely useless to many users—myself included— if the program simply told you when you'd been using a web browser and time spent on certain domains. I use a web browser for nearly all the work I do on my computer. By using the tag function I can tell Productivity Meter which domains I access for certain tasks and jobs. It's tracking for how much time I spend doing Lifehacker related work became significantly more accurate when I tagged all the domains I use. Another concern was that with a triple monitor setup and a huge number of windows open at any given time it wouldn't accurately track what I was really focusing my time and attention on. After testing it for the better part of a day it does a fantastic job tracking what I'm actually working on. The program is free for personal use, with the small caveat that after 30 days the ability to generate time cards is removed. If you don't need to generate time cards to show a boss or client how your time was spent on a give project it shouldn't matter much. All the graphs and information in the main dashboard is available even after the 30 days window. Productivity Meter is freeware, Windows only.

Besides a gaggle of fixes, the changelog details new features:

• Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts
• Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see user manual, chapter 1.6, 64-bit guests, page 16)
• Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see user manual, chapter 1.2, Software vs. hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V), page 10))
• Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see user manual, chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), page 66)
• Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see user manual, chapter 5.1, Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, page 70)
• Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see user manual, chapter 5.2, Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD), page 72)
• New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo (ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)
• New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)

We've already shown you how to run Windows apps seamlessly inside Linux with VirtualBox; what OS combinations are you using it with? VirtualBox is a free download for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

UnChrome isn't the first app to do this; we highlighted another program called Chrome Privacy Guard in our power user's guide to Google Chrome. But for the many who installed Chrome for the first time after Chrome officially left beta last week, it's worthwhile to highlight this kind of tool once more. UnChrome is a free download, Windows only.

RTM's stripped-down, vertically-aligned rectangle is the same you'll see in its Gmail and iGoogle gadgets, as well as a Vista Sidebar widget and desktop embeds. But since Remember the Task is its own desktop window, you can minimize it to your tray, keep it on your second monitor, or simply have it available by hitting Alt-Tab.

Remember the Tray is a free download for all systems, requires the Adobe AIR platform to install and run.

The three methods discussed involve converting the presentation to an intermediate format like video, Flash, or JPEG, and then burning that more DVD-friendly file format to a DVD. If you've ever needed present somewhere where all you had was a DVD player and monitor, this post has you covered inside and out. Unfortunately there are no free one-step options, but the post is detailed and easy to follow along with.

• Shelf Web Pages Instantly (and Get Back to Work) with ReadItLater (Firefox)
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• TabsLock Puts Your Browser One Keystroke Away (Windows)
  "Free system tray utility TabsLock launches and focuses a new tab in Google Chrome (and Firefox... keep reading) at the press of your Caps Lock key."
• LabelLinks4Gmail Nests Labels in Gmail and Then Some (Firefox with Greasemonkey)
  "The LabelLinks4Gmail Greasemonkey scripts creates nested labels in your Gmail sidebar."
• Privoxy Can Block Ads in Google Chrome (Windows)
  "If annoying web site advertisements are the only thing holding you back from using Chrome, a user at the Geekzone forums explains how to block 'em without an extension."
• Smart Shutdown Offers More Ways to Turn Off Your PC (Windows)
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• Greasemetal Brings (Some) User Scripts into Google Chrome (Windows)
  "Thanks to open-source hacker Kazuho Oku, early adopters of Google Chrome can now run the custom JavaScript bits known as Userscripts in the browser using Greasemetal."
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  "Firefox extension AnyColor tweaks the look of Firefox on they fly, letting you choose custom colors for every pixel of the Firefox chrome."
• Dropbox for Linux Adds Online Backup to Desktop (Linux)
  "Dropbox, the free, web-based backup service previously available only for Windows and Mac computers, has added a free, open-source client for Linux to its offerings."
• Fast Dial Puts Thumbnails of Your Favorite Sites in New Tabs (Firefox)
  "Firefox extension Fast Dial replaces blank, empty tabs with thumbnails of your favorite sites."
• Photoshop Alternative Artweaver Helps Edit Your Images (Windows)
  "Free application Artweaver isn't just a Photoshop alternative like GIMP, but a fair clone of Photoshop itself."