April 7, 2008
Pencil is a free drawing and animation application that supports Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Pencil is still only in beta but it’s worth installing and playing around with if you want to get into animation but you can’t afford applications such as Flash or ToonBoom. Pencil Features 1. Tools The tools that Pencil [...]
April 7, 2008
Travis has already introduced Windows Live Writer to Make Use Of readers so I just thought I would tell everyone about some features that can be turned on, some settings that can be configured so that you can make use of Windows Live Writer better. 1) Turn on Spell Check One thing that I missed [...]
April 6, 2008
So you have found yourself up into the wee hours of the morning downloading your favorite television series from your childhood (don’t worry we won’t tell anyone it’s the Smurfs!) only to discover that it won’t play? Maybe it’s the video, audio or even both. What do you do? I have been using a tool [...]
March 26, 2008
A while back, I downloaded a tiny package called FastKake. I don’t recall where the link came from, but somehow ended up in my browser. At first glance FastKake seemed like a weird application, little did I realize how interesting it was. FastKake is really just a tiny 120 KB file that can do all [...]
March 24, 2008
As much as I like Windows XP, I am constantly aware of its severe limitations. I realised this when I installed Teracopy to replace the standard Windows moving & copying function and it shot out the gate like a bat out of hell. Piky Basket is something similar although it isn’t a software program. It [...]
March 24, 2008
Macs come with a really pleasing look. The interface is so polished that pretty much every Windows user envy it. If you’re on a PC longing for a Mac but can’t afford it yet, here is some free software to make your Windows PC look like a Mac. Keep in mind, these visual enhancements require [...]
March 21, 2008
I frequently find desktop applications a lot more convenient than their web-based alternatives. Even when web alternative offers superior feature set there is still something about desktop version that makes it more attractive. So what is the solution ? A web-based application that looks and feels any other desktop program. Below you’ll find four different [...]
March 19, 2008
Countless books have been written on how to shortcut your way around Windows to your advantage. But in the last part of my shortcuts series, I am going to do you a big favour and only tell you a few shortcuts that I use on a daily basis to speed up my travelling around Windows [...]
March 18, 2008
Sharing your music through the local network has always been relatively painless with iTunes. Essentially, it is only a 3-step process. Streaming your music through the Internet is slightly more complicated since you’ll have to find the right programs or web service which suit your needs. Some of the programs which I’ve come across are [...]
March 14, 2008
Adobe AIR is having quite a buzz at the moment around the internet. They are trying to bring more of the web directly on to your desktop, and they seem to be having quite a successful time achieving this. AIR actually stands for “Adobe Integrated Runtime”, and this article looks at some of the best [...]
