June 2, 2010
With today’s widespread availability of digital cameras, everybody can shoot digital pictures whenever and wherever they want. Sharing the images is also as easy, anybody can post almost any picture to one (or all) of the social sites for everybody to see. The abundance makes ordinary images difficult to stand out. To turn daily pictures [...]
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May 31, 2010
It’s time once again for our featured Movers and Shakers post. Each week, we take one software category and list the top ten most downloaded free apps. This week we are looking at a CNet category entitled Student Tools. These are applications that students can take advantage of like note-taking applications and software that help [...]
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May 31, 2010
Google Desktop is a great tool for social networking. The Twitter and Facebook gadgets allow you to keep up to date with your friends without even having to launch a full web browser. Other Google Desktop gadgets, like custom clocks and computer performance meters, just flat-out look cool. But Google Desktop isn’t just a novelty. [...]
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May 30, 2010
The world is effectively riddled with different kinds of notations. Most countries have a score of special characters in store, and different scripts deploy different tags and notations – even if a certain bijection is existent. Replacing these manually, even using a standard search-replace feature, can be tedious business. It’s doable, but a real chore. [...]
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May 30, 2010
One problem which occurs whenever you try to optimize or speed up your computer is measuring how much of an effect your efforts have made. Confirmation bias can make it very, very hard to simply “eyeball” your computer’s speed because you’ll usually want to confirm that your efforts made an impact. This can be a [...]
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May 28, 2010
One of the problems I’ve always had with online eBook readers is that they just doesn’t have the same look and feel of a real book or magazine. When you hold a book in your hands, you can grip the corner of the page and curl it back just as your finishing the last few [...]
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May 27, 2010
I take a lot of pictures. I go away for a week and come back with thousands of pictures. I have tried all the different image management applications like desktop-based Picasa and web-based Flickr to figure out the best way how to organize photos. If you have to deal with a lot of images and [...]
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May 26, 2010
Every little bit matters for the guy who loves his music. Even the right way an album cover needs to be displayed while listening to a song. You might wonder why an album cover matters so much, especially in the digital music era when everything is MP3 and a player hidden somewhere in the system [...]
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May 26, 2010
Animated GIF images are a great way to attract attention to certain parts of your site, create simple but effective banner ads, or simply have fun. Memorializing your favorite scenes from movies in GIF format is a riot. However, there are not very many good GIF editing programs available for free. Those which are available [...]
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May 25, 2010
Are you wasting too much time going through Thunderbird’s menus to accomplish simple tasks? Can you never remember the keyboard shortcuts? It may be time to install some visual shortcuts. Thunderbird toolbar buttons provide one-click access to some of Thunderbird’s most useful features. In addition, there are buttons that add new functionality that you would [...]
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May 24, 2010
It’s time once again for our featured Movers and Shakers post. Each week, we take one software category and list the top ten most downloaded free apps. This week we will be looking at Video Software. These are the applications that allow you to watch, convert or make videos on your Windows machine. Let’s see [...]
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May 21, 2010
Have you read Ryan’s article about using his Android phone to go geocaching with his family? He shows how he used his phone’s GPS capabilities to find the location of a cache. Later I wrote an article including a list of ways to use your Android phone to get the kids outdoors. In that article [...]
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May 21, 2010
Scrap: (noun) a small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used. Nothing earth shaking in that definition, but in terms of everyday usability we see it all around. A phone number tagged to a piece of paper and left lying around, a to-do list [...]
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May 21, 2010
I previously covered an application that allowed you to hide a drive letter from users on your Windows system. Today we will be looking at a small application that will allow you to not only encrypt certain folders on your Windows system but it will also change the icon of the folder or folders you [...]
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May 20, 2010
I have several websites that I maintain for clients. I need to have up to date live copies of their data in case something goes wrong with their webhosts. I keep weekly backup copies of the data but what if a user uploaded a new report or entered new information 10 minutes after the backup? [...]
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