Test the Speed of Your Broadband Connection

September 16, 2008

Most of us pay for broadband Internet connections every month but really don’t have much of an idea as to what we get for our money — other than a connection to the Internet. Speakeasy, a communications company that sells high speed Internet connections, provides a useful service — a broadband speed test that allows [...]

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Update: Bright shiny new update to VLC Video Player

September 16, 2008

Last week we first told you about VLC, the open source multi-platform video player that plays most any video format and this week, presto, there’s a nice new release for you, that they say has been two years in the making. Here’s what they say is new: The 0.9 version of VLC media player adds [...]

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Clean your new computer or an old one – The PC Decrapifier

September 16, 2008

I hate the applications that have been pre-installed on my computer. I recently bought a new PC.  That means even before I start installing the applications I really need, there are a boatload of trial applications installed.  Most are a result of marketing agreements between the various software publishers and the manufacturer of your new [...]

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Dropbox – the easiest way to sync file between computers

September 15, 2008

  I work on a PC and Mac and I have a constant need to move documents and images back and forth between my computers.  One way is to just email the files as attachments to myself using Gmail and then download the attachment on the other computer.  That’s not a bad method, fast and [...]

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DrPic: Online Photo Editor That’s Easy on Your System Resources

September 12, 2008

Using web services rather than desktop applications is great, but their down side is that some have been built using heavy frameworks like Java and Adobe Flash that require your browser to load large amounts memory in order to operate. This can cause slow performance on many computers especially older underpowered ones. DrPic is a [...]

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Think you spend too much time watching YouTube? You’re not alone

September 12, 2008

I like to think I’m being productive. I don’t like Web time-wasters, I can waste enough time on my own and watching YouTube and other online videos often falls into that category.  I’d even rather quickly read the news on cnn.com rather than watch a news video. Sure seems like online video is popular though.  [...]

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Join together multiple sound or movie files

September 11, 2008

MediaJoin is a handy free Windows utility for joining multiple media files like MP3 or AVIs together.  Say you’ve short several short videos of the baby walking and would like to join them together or you’d like join together several chapters of an MP3 audio book before adding it to your MP3 player, MediaJoin can [...]

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Would you like to create an album from pictures in your email?

September 11, 2008

2Pad.com, a recently announced photo website, automatically retrieves photos and videos from your web-based email service like Gmail or Yahoo and stores them in a private online gallery. It’s a good idea.  Friends and family email you pictures that are special to them.  You email pictures of your new baby or car.  If you consistently [...]

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iTunes 8 – Trying out Genius

September 11, 2008

Software development is tied to an update cycle that requires continuous releases for a number of reasons – engineering – keeping up with technology, marketing – keeping your product looking fresh and in front of consumers and sales – use your products to sell more.   Branding also needs considering –  do you make a new [...]

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Need a video viewer that can play any format? You need VLC Media Player

September 10, 2008

So many video formats, so little time.  Video cameras, the cute little joke time-wasting videos your friends send you, training videos, DVDs, “backups” of DVDs, avi, wmv, mp4, mpeg, xvid, divx, flash video – you get the idea – you can get so many videos in a babel of formats. VLC Media Player sorts it [...]

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