For those of you who lack access to a 24/7 internet connection, you must be familiar with the frustration of getting online at internet cafes. They usually provide decent CPUs and cool LCD screens but they almost always limit internet usage to just browsing.

If you’re looking for a solution to end this, Portable Apps Suite is your answer. Most internet cafes, although they don’t let you install the programs you need, they usually allow you to use a USB thumbdrive to transfer your data. Portable Apps Suite packs enough applications that can run straight from your thumbdrive so you can turn that net cafe desktop into your own personal desktop.

Portable Apps Suite™ is a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, web editor, office suite, word processor, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client and FTP client, all preconfigured to work portably and be easy to back up. Just drop it on your portable device and you’re ready to go.

Via Ades Blog.

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DoSize is an Web 2.0 application that automates resizing and sending pictures online. You can resize your digital photo images in 3 easy steps. This website is really handy for those of you who don’t have any graphics skills and are unarmed with any image editing software on your computer. DoSize is free. It’s easy. It’s fun. It’s online.

We are a group of people who share a desire to make it easier for “common” people to share their personal digital photos. We discovered that many people, although Flickr exists, use e-mail to share quickly a couple of pictures with friends and family… but they just don’t know how to resize them to fit them in an email.

Everybody loves videos and rich media content. Unfortunately for most of us non-geeks it’s not exactly easy to grab those videos, mp3s, flash animations, etc. and save them on our harddrives. Until now that is, since Firefox released an extension that let you download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion… and other 60+ video sites. The downloader also allows you to download all embedded objects on a webpage, directly.

VideoDownloader add a small icon on the status bar at the bottom of your firefox window, and a toolbar button. Just click that and download the video you are watching.

Here is a flick that shows how it works.

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For centuries designers have searched for a solution to create anti-aliased rounded corners with CSS. Before it was only possible with an image editting software like Adobe Photoshop, but this recent breakthrough changed the old-style way of making rounded corners. Spiffy Corners is a CSS tool created by Greg Johnson. It helps you create rounded corners with your own colors (for whatever reason you have for it) and generates the CSS for you to copy-and-paste to your design.

Via Ades Blog.