Digsby - Chat with ALL of your friends

You have a friend who uses Yahoo instant messenger. Another friend only uses Facebook, and you hate having to go to twitter.com every time you want to let everyone know you're tying your shoe. Plus, you have email accounts at Gmail and Yahoo, and it's a pain to check every five minutes because you don't know when that important email is coming.
The folks at Digsby have created an all-in-one instant messaging client, which supports AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo IM, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, and Facebook IM. It also notifies you when you receive an email from your Gmail, Windows Live Mail, Yahoo, AOL, and any email account that supports POP or IMAP.
Besides that, it connects you to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and LinkedIn. You can update your Facebook status or send a tweet from your desktop.
Digsby also has an amazing feature that synchronizes your settings across computers. If you have a home computer and a work computer, you just need to log into your Digsby account and all your saved settings (layout, accounts, etc.) will be available.
This is a great program for anyone who uses several IM networks and email accounts. You can find Digsby at digsby.com.

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Google Earth - World travel from your desk.

No more expensive vacations! You can now travel the world in one click - for free! With Google Earth, that is. Google Earth (made by, you guessed it, our friend Google) uses satellite photos of the entire earth (mostly, anyway; Google excludes some places because of security reasons) to construct a virtual globe inside your computer.
With your mouse, you can interact with the world by zooming in and out and panning through the image. But that's just the beginning. You can type in an address, directions or coordinates and instantly be taken to the geographic location. Many cities have 3D buildings, and there's a neat new feature called Street View that allows you to take panoramic tours of select cities. You can also see the sunrise and sunset happen in real time, or change the time of day to see the sunlight move across the earth.
There's a neat feature called Sky that lets you explore beyond the earth in outer space, seeing other stars and galaxies. There are so many amazing features in this program that I can't mention them all, but you can get a great tour with videos at http://earth.google.com/tour.html, or if I've already convinced you, go to http://earth.google.com/ to download it. It's free!

Miro - TV on your computer

Wouldn't you like to be able to watch television on your computer? Well, a program called Miro will let you do just that. Almost. Here's how it works: you subscribe to video channels (using RSS) with Miro, which automatically downloads new videos that you can watch in Miro. There are over 2,500 channels on almost every topic imaginable: cooking shows, nature, science, and more! There are also many HD channels, so you can watch High Definition video on your computer (beware of extremely large file sizes, though, when downloading HD or large videos). You can also search for and download videos from websites like YouTube and Google Video. The best part of it all is that it's free! You don't have to pay a penny. You can even make your own Miro channel for free! To learn more about Miro and to download it, visit getmiro.com or click on this shiny button:

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