ASUS O!Play HDP-R1 media player gets the hands-on treatment

Our amigos over at Engadget Spanish have managed to get their hands on ASUS’ O!Play HDP-R1 media player and they’ve taken it for a spin. The player, which supports a HD video playback in a multitude of codecs, including MPEG1/2/4, H.264, VC-1, and RM/RMVB in a multitude of packages including .mp4, .mov, .avi, .divx, and [...]

Bookmarks Archiver Automatically Cleans Old Bookmarks [Downloads]

Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Bookmarks Archiver cleans out those old bookmarks that you never use, but still have cluttering up your bookmarks menu.
Once you’ve installed the experimental Firefox extension, you should take a trip into the add-on’s options panel to set the number of days to check, and whether you want the bookmark archiving [...]

Google Reader Watcher Adds RSS Notifications to Firefox [Downloads]

Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Google Reader Watcher adds notifications for unread items right in your web browser, complete with a quick-access menu that takes you directly to the feed.
Once you’ve installed the extension, you’ll need to take a trip to the add-on options panel to enter your Google account information, where you can also [...]

TwInbox Adds Twitter to Microsoft Outlook [Downloads]

Windows only: Microsoft Outlook add-on TwInbox lets you update, reply, search, and archive your Twitter messages right from your Outlook inbox.
Once you’ve installed the add-on into Outlook, you’ll need to take a trip to the Options panel to enter your Twitter account details, and you’ll probably want to choose a new folder to place incoming [...]

HistoryBlock Keeps Web Sites From Your History [Downloads]

Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension HistoryBlock prevents specific web sites from being tracked—like an always-on private browsing mode for certain domains.
Using the extension is really quite simple—just right-click on a page, choose Block This! from the menu, and pages from that domain will no longer be stored in your history. Since there’s no UI to [...]