Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day: Black Friday Edition [Dealhacker]
What's the most dealtastic day of the whole year? Black Friday, of course. Come on in for some deep-dish regular deals and some fantastic Black Friday Deals. Twice a week we round up the best deals we can find to share with you. This Thursday is the eve of Black Friday one of the biggest shopping days of the year and also the best day to find outrageous deals. For today's Dealhacker post we've rounded our regular variety of deals for those of you that don't want to fight the crazy crowds—many of the online

61 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For [Downloads]
As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own. Earlier this week we asked you to share the free apps you're most thankful for, and after rounding up thousands of your suggestions, considering our own favorites, and performing a little spreadsheet magic, we've cooked up our own cornucopia of excellent

Best Wishlist Tool? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]
Whether you're being shopped for or doing the shopping, good wish lists are very useful to have on-hand. This week we want to hear about your favorite tool for ensuring the lump of coal you get is the one you want. Photo by Genealogy Photos. The internet has ushered in an era of comparison shopping, searching, product research, and wish-list creation you could have only dreamed of as a kid (as a weird, weird kid). When we were kids the only way to find out about the best

MouseExtender Launches Programs With Two Clicks [Downloads]
Windows only: The Windows 7 taskbar is pretty convenient, but if you are running an older version of Windows (or are just looking for a cool mouse-based launcher), MouseExtender is a sleek program that launches with one click of the mouse. By default, MouseExtender is triggered by clicking the middle mouse button (although if you have a nice multi-button mouse, you can configure it to any mouse button or keyboard combo you want). Invoking MouseExtender brings up a window you can add programs, files, folders or URLs to for easy access. You can do this either by

Add Extra Effects to Photo Booth and iChat with a Quick Tweak [Tweaks]
Mac OS X: Photo Booth and iChat's handful of native effects are fun, but the novelty of making yourself glow sepia wears off pretty quickly. Fortunately, you can easily tweak some settings to add a bunch more. Macworld's Rob Griffiths unearthed a way to add more than 20 silly effects to the 16 that are already found in Photo Booth and iChat. By cutting, pasting, and lightly editing a collection of files already hiding inside your Mac, you can pixellate,