Sweet Firefox Extension - Meebo ff extension!

Hi all 22tech readers, today we have found an extaordinary extension to an already great web 2.0 program - meebo! Meebo has launched an extension for firefox that you can use (albeit only while still on the meebo.com webiste), which will improve the experience of meebo. Here are some screenshots of what it does -

See your recent messages in the optional sidebar while you browse the Web-
Get notified when your friends send you IMs so you'll never miss them-


There is all that & more! Check it out at www.meebo.com/firefox

-22tech

Sweet Deal! 750gb HD for $140 @ Newegg!!

22tech has just found a sweet hard drive deal on the egg. You can get a Seagate Barracuda 750gb with 32mb cache for just $140! This is a limited time offer, so if you want it, then get it now! But dang ... hard drives and RAM have recently become soooooooooooooo cheap! I mean, this hard drive is 18.67 cents per gig! :-o. Enjoy and happy belated easter to all of yall ;).

Free Software Of The Day:Disk Defragmenter

We all know that in Windows, it is a good idea to keep defragging your hard drive so that it can run at maximum speed. But is the one built in to Windows the most efficient and effective one? Absolutely not! But 22tech has found a program - Auslogics Disk Defragmenter, that is free and does a great job of defragging your HD, and it can also defrag removable drives/thumbdrives etc. You can get it here.
Here is a pic of it -



So, that is our recommendation, we hoped you like it!
If you want to send us a good idea for a piece of software, email us at 22centurytech@gmail.com !

Do you have unwanted files all over your system? is your start menu crammed with old junk you never use? do you have 3 years of temporary Internet files slowing down your computer? Well we have a easy solution for you!- ccleaner!
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)
You can download it free here -




Comment with any questions or comments!
Send you free software recommendations to 22centurytech@gmail.com so we can put it on the blog!
-Tech-drummer

Free Software Of The Day: Pivot Stickfigure Animator

Have you ever seen one of those Youtube videos where stick figures are jumping around fighting and doing stupid stuff? Would you like to make your own? Well now you can with the Pivot Stickfigure Animator. This software is totally free, and with a little practice you can be making your own stick figure animations easily! You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles. In addition, you can optionally set animation size, speed and more. The result can be saved as animated GIF file. Fun and easy to use, surprisingly well featured.
Here is a video made with it-

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Here is where you can download it-
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html
Comment with any questions or comments!
-Tech-Drummer

Oopen Source Of The Day Is Changing To Free Software Of The Day!!!

We are changing the "Open source of the day" to "free software of the day". Its still al the same cool free software, but just a new name!!!

-Tech drummer

The "IM" Wars

We all like to im and talk to our friends online. But What is the best way? We all love AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, ICQ, Skype, and many more, but witch is the easiest? The Fastest? The Most Features? Here is a list for the type of user you are and what you need.


1-on-1 at home chat & Chat On The Go
If you just like to talk to one or two of your friends and maybe a couple of group chats on you home computer, Gtalk (Google Talk) Is the one for you. It is vary fast, reliable, and simple. You can call friends, easily send files, and its fast and secure. And you can easily log onto it online from anywhere, and im your friends on the go.

2-Or-More Chat with plug ins, games, photo sharing, ext.
Do you like to share photos, play games, voice chat and much more while you im your friends? If so, Yahoo Messenger is the one for you. But this is not for you if you just need something simple to im your friends.


Pc-to-Pc Voice chat, And Video Chat
If you want to talk to your friends, and video chat, Skype is the one for you. But with skype, you can also make calls to landlines!
But Manley The Im for you is the one that you like best!
Here are some more recommendations-
AIM
ICQ


"But I Want All Of Them!!!"
It's ok. We have something For That To! Here are some programs that let you chat with all of your favorite IM services at once-
Pidgin
Trillian
Meebo


Hope You Like Them!
Comment if you have any Questions or recommendations!
-Tech Drummer

Build a great budget PC for $280!

Here at 22tech, we love having solid, fast computers. But sometimes, that does not always happen. Sometimes you might need a basic computer, like for your kids or for your grandma that needs a new computer. This totals to only $280 w/ s&h, but does not include any peripherals or software, such as windows. (We recommend Ubuntu Linux).

CPU - AMD athlon 64 le-1600 $39.99
We picked amd for our budget pc, because it was really cheap on newegg, beating all of the intel's in that particular price range. Plus it is 45 watts and 1mb cache . Nice for a cheap proc. Oh, and did I mention you get a free t-shirt :P!

Motherboard - ECS 690G motherboard $49.99-$20MIR =$29.99
This motherboard was a cheap motherboard featuring the 690g chipset, so we figured we might as well go for this, even if it does mean having to buy an ecs mobo :-( .

Power Supply - Thermaltake W00070RUC 430W $39.99-10
What? You thought we were going to skimp on the power and use the lowly 300W power included with the case? Heck no! We chose this PS to give adequate power to components, and it even gives a generous PCI Express 6 pin cable in case we ever want to upgrade. Solid!

Case - Any cheap rosewill 29.99 case on newegg will do the job perfectly on a budget.

RAM - ADADA 2gb ddr2 800 $34 after rebate
Thats right folks, 2gb of memory in a sub-$300 computer! This RAM is rated @ ddr2 800 and will do the job perfectly , and may be a bit much on a budget. But this will come in handy , especially if you are planning to put Vista on this.

HD - Maxtor DiamondMax 21 250gb hard drive
250gb in a $250 pc! That is definetly not bad. This is the cheapest hard drive on newegg with 250gb, and the ratings are still very good. (Although you can never trust newegg ratings :P).

CD/DVD drive - Lite-on black sata dvdrom drive
For this budget pc, we could have easily gotten a dvd burner, but there is no point, since nobody with a cheap pc will burn dvds. Plus, this dvdrom is also sata!!!

Well.. that just about concludes our budget pc, which comes to $280 (inlucding shipping & rebates). Even though it is a pc on a budget, it is pretty powerful. It has a 2.3ghz athlon proc (which probably could be overclocked to 2.5 or 2.6ghz), comes with 2gb of ddr2 800 memory, and has a spacious 250gb hard drive! We hoped you liked our budget pc, and please post comments about what you liked/disliked. (I forsee people killing us for using ecs)

Free Software Of The Day: Firefox

Free Software Of The Day: FireFox

FireFox Is A Great Browser for all Operating Systems! It Provides many features, plugins, and security! You Can Download It Free, Here-http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

10800GTX ... right ... lol

22tech recently found something extremely interesting we wanted to share with all of you recently. Apparently, a geocities site claims that they have a preview of the specs of a so-called 10800gtx, which will come out in The 3rd quarter of 2011, and it will play crysis @ 165fps with all of the eye candy on. Yea right. The specs of the supposed video card is on the right, but the photoshopper made one mistake - some of the edges are rounded, but some are not .. the fake picture is credited to SatchBoy of the maximumpc forums. Nice catch! But of course, it was a nice joke
LOL .. we can start a funny pc thing of the day .. ... but first we need to catch up on open source software of the day. You can talk about the article on the forum here.

Finally! A free and great hosting solution - 110mb!!

We recently found this new great hosting site that you can use to host your webpages!! The site is called 110mb.com. It is totally free (but mysql costs $5 i think if you want that), stable, and there is virtually no offline time! On top of that, it offers 300gb of space, and 3000 gigabyte bandwith, although each file is limited to 10mb. There is also a great support forum in case you need help with anything, and if you get 350 posts on there, 110mb will give you FREE mysql! That is really amazing for such a cheap host. This is 22tech's recommendation for any website. Good luck and enjoy!!

-22tech
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