March 8, 2012
Click one button in the tray and see what you need to do today. Calendar Indicator gives you quick access to your upcoming Google Calendar appointments, and doesn’t rely on any other software to get that information. This means you don’t need Evolution to see your appointments in the tray.
March 8, 2012
ME: awful. XP: good. Vista: Awful. 7: good. There’s been a certain pattern this millennium; will Windows 8 live up to or transcend this curse? Find out in episode 12 of Technophilia Podcast: Is Windows 8 Cursed? Technophilia Podcast is a weekly, irreverent look at the past week in tech. We talk about the big technology headlines, highlight applications we’re using along with games we’re playing. It’s a lot of fun, and we hope you’ll join us.
March 7, 2012
Fly around, bounce green balls into red swirls and save the world. Bobby is a simple, strangely addictive physics-based game that will have you swearing out loud and and restarting levels more than once. And, thanks to a policy change at Nooskewl Games, it is now absolutely free for computer users everywhere.
March 3, 2012
Integrate your favorite cloud-based music players with the Linux desktop. Whether you’re a fan of Google Music, Grooveshark, Hype Machine, 8tracks or all four, Nuvola Player makes listening to cloud music in Linux so seamless you’ll forget they’re not desktop players. It lets you elegantly control all four of these online music services from your Unity or Gnome desktop.
March 2, 2012
Google’s got a brand new product coming out, possibly this year, that will make the streets of your city even more annoying. What is it? Listen to Technophilia Episode 11: Augmented Reality to find out. Technophilia is a weekly, irreverent look at the past week in tech. We talk about the big technology headlines, highlight applications we’re using along with games we’re playing and try to have a good time doing it.
March 1, 2012
Set up your own personal music server, with a web-based interface that lets you listen to your collection everywhere. Sockso does this, and runs great on Windows, Mac and Linux alike. Google Music and services like it are great. All of your music is moved to the cloud, giving you the ability to listen to it anywhere. There’s a tradeoff, though – you’re trusting a third party with your music collection.
March 1, 2012
Do you get more email than you know what to do with? You’re not alone. I get multiple, daily emails that I routinely delete without so much as opening. Or, at least, I did, until just now. I used Unsubscribr and stopped those messages from getting to me. You should too. This free tool lets you unsubscribe from the stuff you don’t care about without having to actually read any of the messages and look for the “Unsubscribe” link or instructions.
February 27, 2012
Do you want to get more out of Photoshop? Then you need to read this free guide from MakeUseOf – “An Idiot’s Guide To Photoshop, Part 3: Pro Tips” by Azamat “Bohed” E, resident Photoshop genius at TrueKolor.net. This manual outlines 32 Photoshop tips you need to know, along with a photo retouching guide and three in-depth tutorials.
February 25, 2012
Use the command line to quickly download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Ted, Discovery and over 40 other sites using one simple program. It’s called MovGrab and it’s a great, free program for Linux. We’ve shown you a few easy ways to download online videos before but it’s hard to match Movgrab, in terms of the sheer number of sites it supports. As of this writing, 45 different sites are supported.
February 23, 2012
Easily send a text message to any phone in the United States, free of charge, regardless of where you live. You will get the responses in your email, and can even respond to responses using email. It’s all at TextPort, a site that makes sending SMS messages from your computer easy. It offers a few other worthwhile tools as well, including a reverse number lookup.
