January 27, 2010
Blogging on Tumblr using their web interface couldn’t possibly be easier. That said, since its inception, Tumblr has continued to add new features enhancing the user experience, the latest of which is the ‘Ask’ feature, opening up more means of interaction by allowing readers to submit questions, which you can choose to answer in the [...]
January 17, 2010
Boxee, as you probably know, is a cross-platform media center application which you can download for free. Because it was designed specifically for the living room, it is suitable for use in conjunction with your large screen TV, with interface elements legible from the mythical 10 feet. Whether you run the application on an Apple [...]
January 15, 2010
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: there’s no need for cable television in this day and age. The Internet is simply full of sites where you can watch TV on the Internet with your television for free; hook your television up to a computer and you can enjoy it all without paying [...]
January 12, 2010
eReaders aren’t just portable displays to read your eBooks on the go. The difference lies in the display technology. Where normal displays use liquid crystal-filled pixels, and beam the image on your retina with what is in fact a big flashlight, e-ink technology uses no additional light-source. In fact, they really use an ink-like set-up. [...]
January 8, 2010
What do David Allen, Dwight Eisenhower and Stephen Covey have in common? Apart from believing in the “˜time as a virtue’ maxim, and practicing it, I can’t think of anything else. It turns out that all three are gurus of time management (or task management) theories. All three (and some more) of their time management [...]
January 4, 2010
Batch processing photos is a very common need if you have digital camera or a mobile phone with a decent camera. I recently realized how cumbersome it can get when you have to make the same edits to hundreds of photos, just because the camera settings were not right to suit the conditions. There are, [...]
January 1, 2010
Writing, or rewriting, your musical scores digitally can be a tedious business. It takes a lot longer than doodling with pen and paper, but is infinitely tidier and more accessible ““ in a way, you’re making it timeless. In this time and age, it’s simply not done to compose your scores on a napkin. Sure, [...]
December 20, 2009
Some people are natural born chatters. They have friends from each and every existing chat service and have to stay connected with their chatting friends all the time. They don’t mind the trouble of having to open several chatting clients and manage them across several platforms. But life doesn’t have to be that hard. There [...]
November 22, 2009
The other day I downloaded a .RAR file. I saw them here and there but to my surprise never extracted one in the past. I really needed the app which I found in Mark’s article here to take a screenshot of my cell phone for another article. So I then did a little digging around [...]
November 20, 2009
A couple of months ago, Varun wrote about a very interesting yet controversial application. Since then, a lot has been learnt and the app has come quite a long way. I’ll attempt to review the app again but this time, I’m testing the Mac version and I’ll try to look to it from a totally [...]
