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MuralPix Wallpaper Changer is a program which automatically creates wallpapers for Windows from selected JPEG images and changes them in specified period of time. This is cool if you’re a photographer or if you just have an archive of images from the Web. MuralPix will create a permanently changing background from the folder you specify. Also, MuralPix Screen Saver makes a slide show from your images when the PC is idle for a specified period of time. Images can be changed with transition effects.

MuralPix can be downloaded in 3 versions, which differ only in number of sample images included, and thus in the size of the package. A broadband connection is best for downloading the extended version.

Minimum version: Contains MuralPix and no sample images (3.0 MB)
Basic version: Contains MuralPix and 5 sample images (3.9 MB)
Extended version: Contains MuralPix and 50 sample images (10.8 MB)

Download MuralPix Wallpaper Changer

I’ve found an extremely useful and amazingly free set of tools that can make radical improvements to your eBay efforts. eBay Research by Terapeak is a service where you can learn the best prices, starting times, keywords and much more for your auctions.

Terapeak’s free services are enough to boost your profits big time, but if you want to take selling to the next level, they also offer paid services that can give you the lowdown on your competition and info on the hottest eBay auction categories.

Most useful.

Hordes of Supermassive Black Hole Found!
Dateline U.S. Congress.

Haha, just kidding. It’s amazing that this find probably more than doubles the amount of known black holes in the Universe. What? Were we just not looking in the right neighborhood? It was dark and we didn’t see them?

OK, seriously this is cool and also disturbing. There more black holes there are, the more matter is being sucked inside. That would be cool if we could use them for landfills or sumpin, but otherwise we’re looking at eventual suckage of the entire Universe, right?

Out of work? That doesn’t mean you’re out of luck. Here’s a program to help automate your job application process.

You just need to fill in a few blanks and the Fast Job Applier customizes your cover letter for the job, attaches your resume, emails them off, and logs the application including the Web site with the job description.

Features:
- Have your cover letter customized automatically for each job prospect.
- Choose different cover letter and resume combinations for each job prospect.
- Have access to all your information when a hiring manager calls.
- Never worry about applying more than once to the same job.

Of course the Fast Job Applier is free software licensed under the GPL.

A new wave of moon watchers is being born in China as the country prepares for the launch of a lunar orbiter. I’m so jealous. I mean the International Space Station is an excellent thing, but giving up an the moon after expending so much money, time and human lives to get there was simply stupid.

We should already have a Golden Arches up there.

Hey, let’s get serious for a sec. The Internet has brought a lot of cool into our lives. It’s fun, it’s gossipy, it’s informative. It can also save your life.

If you have an addiction to drugs or alcohol, you know how hard it is to admit it and then to get the help you need. There aren’t always people we feel we can trust in the circle around us. Even if there are, we know they aren’t always going to understand what it feels like and what it takes to get a life back.

Alcohol Rehab is a free .mobi blog that can connect you to people who know where you are because they’ve been there themselves. Go on over (the site is accessible with regular browsers too) and read up on what people have experienced with rehab. You can see both sides of the coin, people who are/were addicted and people who love them.

Take a look. You don’t have to sign anything or register anywhere. It starts with a click.

Legends is a first person shooter online multiplayer game. The game is designed to take advantage of the beautiful environments available from the Torque engine it is based on, while still offering the breakneck pacing and variety of styles available from such classics as Quake and Tribes. Gameplay is not the strafe-strafe-jump-strafe-shoot-strafe-run-like-hell style a lot of games espouse; the addition of a jetpack adds a third dimension of mobility that makes skill, forethought, and restraint necessities to winning. Team sizes are ideal between 10 and 15 on each side, and the network code allows 56k upwards to play smoothly. Game type offerings range from the classic Capture the Flag, Deathmatch and Duel to our own new types, e.g.. ‘War’.

Works on Windows 98, 2000, XP and Linux.

Download Legends

Backlinks are an effective way to increase your rank in search engines. No matter how you got inbound links to your site (submitted your site to DMOZ, participated in reciprocal linking programs, or someone mentioned your resource in a blog), you need a tool to control the status of the links.

The freeware BackLinks Master checks if they still point to your website, what anchor text do these backlinks have and more. BackLinks Master helps you to find out who is linking to you, whether the link is direct or if it goes through JavaScript and what keywords it has in the anchor text.

Collected data is displayed in a simple and handy tree-like form. All the info can be exported into a CSV file for further, more detailed analysis. You can handle several URLs, submit your target keywords to see linking sites with these keywords in anchor text and more.

If you haven’t tried Foxit Reader or its update, you owe it to yourself to take the free download and try it out. It displays PDFs so much faster than the laborious process Adobe seems to have to undergo just to do what it’s supposed to. Kinda like dragging my butt off the couch on the weekend.

Here’s the scoop: Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.
New features in Version 2.1:
- Design interactive forms
- Measure distances
- Insert images and add links into the PDF
- Add loupe tool
- Attach files to the PDF
- Select multiple annotations and specify annotation transparency
- Reading history recalls the place you were when you closed the PDF
- E-mail the PDF
- Check spelling in typewriter and form filler functions
Enhanced features:
- Enhanced zoom tools
- Renovated IE plug-in with almost all the capabilities of the main program
- Print only the annotations
- Enhanced permission control
- Built-in and improved JavaScript engine
- Better support for multi-language input
- Enhanced typewriter function
- Improved full screen view
- Many bug fixes