Courtesy of Crunchgear
Hot damn, you can trade your old crappy video games in to Amazon now and get Amazon gift cards dropped into your account. As someone who buys a lot of crap from Amazon.com, I can best describe my feelings about this as “excited” and “happy”, among others.
Trade-in values appear to be relatively fair, especially for newer games. The Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: World at War, for instance, sells new for $49.99 and carries a trade-in value of $26.50. To get everything kick started, if you …

For those traveling, away from their system or otherwise in need of a quick photo upload, Picasa Web Albums now let you email in your album additions.
To enable email uploads, from your Picasa Web Albums account, click on settings and scroll down until you see the Upload Photos by Email section as seen in the screenshot here. Check the box, then type in a secret word. The secret word becomes the suffix on your address in the form of username.secretword@picasaweb.com. Then you’ll want to add your upload address, like myusername.zomgpictures@picasaweb.com, …

Windows only: iTunes Lyrics Importer makes sure the lyrics for your iTunes-managed music collection are updated and free from gaps.
iTunes Lyrics Importer polls Lyricwiki’s extensive database to make sure you have an accurate and well stocked catalog of lyrics for your favorite songs. The application is simple to use, and the initial run will fill in any missing lyrics in your existing collection. From there on, any time you add new music (or whenever you remember to update), run iTunes Lyrics Importer to rescan your collection and update the new …

Windows only: If you need to grab both video and still screen captures, but don’t have the need or budget for professional software, Extensoft Screen Capturer can do both with ease.
With Extensoft’s app, you can capture the entire screen or specified areas of it. Captured images can be saved as BMP, JPG, PNG, and TIFF formats. Video captures can be saved in either WMV or AVI format—there are codecs for DiVX, ffdshow, and XviD, among others, for post-processing, and audio can be grabbed during video sessions as well. Almost all …

Windows only: Porta’Menu is a tiny (175k!) application launcher for your portable drives. It is extremely spartan, but effective.
Porta’menu is freeware, Windows only.
Porta’Menu [via Freeware Home]