Let's face it. The internet has way too much stuff. Most of it is crap. Well, now there is this site. Here, you will also find crap, but it is our crap. Crap straight from our brains to your eyes. This site is a repository for things that we have chosen to use as a distraction from far more important and fulfilling tasks. Now those things can serve the same purpose for you! School, work, and life in general has been ignored and neglected to bring this incomprehensible jumble of thoughts and ideas to you. Read it, watch it, play it, laugh at it. If you don't, that would mean that all of that was a waste of time... a terrible, terrible waste of time.

Web utility iPhoneThemeGenerator remakes your iPhone in your image. The site holds your hand through icon, background wallpaper, and dock changes, allowing you to customize every element to your liking. You can choose pictures from the default galleries or—if you're the creatively talented sort—you can upload your own images. When you're finished, the webapp compiles the theme in an iPhone friendly format. To get it on your phone, you'll need to have jailbroken your iPhone, then follow the instructions on the site. If you don't really feel like you own a gadget until you've fully customized it to your liking, this one's for you.

Windows only: If you're running a home network with more than one or two machines, free network tool Advanced IP Scanner might save you a good chunk of time hunting down IP addresses and remotely connecting. The small utility scans a range of internal IP addresses and reports the status, name, NetBIOS/workgroup name, and MAC address on what it finds. You can then remotely shutdown, wake up LAN-listening machines, telnet or FTP into a machine—anything you'd normally be able to do, just in shorter order. It's probably overkill for those with one or two machines with static IP addresses, but Advanced IP Scanner is a pretty sweet tool for networking geeks. Advanced IP Scanner is a free download for Windows systems only. Thanks, [Read More]

We've all been there: you've downloaded an episode of your favorite TV show to watch on your commute or stream to your living room, but the file you downloaded isn't supported on the device you want to use it with. Once a significant obstacle to enjoying your media anywhere, this problem is easily solved by any number of free media converters. On Wednesday we asked you to share your favorite media converters, and today we're back with the five most popular answers. Keep reading for a closer look at the most powerful and easiest to use media converters, then cast a vote for the one you like best.

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Windows only: Free media file converter FormatFactory is a handy all-in-one utility for taking one kind of audio, video, or picture file and converting it to another. The interface is a dead-simple drag-and-drop affair, and it's meant for running batches of files through converters—FLVs to Windows Media, MPEGs to iPod-friendly video, DVDs to DivX files, etc. You won't get a lot of options for quality control, compression rate, or other tweaks, but for some folks, that's really a benefit. FormatFactory is a free download for Windows systems only.

If you want to edit photos in your web browser without loading Flash, Silverlight, Java, or any other heavy plug-in, check out DrPic.com, a surprisingly full-featured online image editor which works its magic completely in Javascript. [via]