August 22, 2011
Searching for information about a band on Google? You may soon notice new music information associated with the artist you’re searching for, including the names of albums and songs, appearing below search results. Called Rich Snippets, this feature is meant to provide Google users with insight into the content different sites make available.
May 18, 2010
Did you know that Word documents can hold information that is not visible from within the document? It is true. Microsoft tags hidden data to your documents that can give information such as revision logs, identifying information (author, etc.), comments, keywords, hyperlinks, saved dates, edit dates, and much more. This is called metadata. Why should [...]
January 29, 2010
My earliest recollection of trips to the video store usually ended with drumming my fingers. I did that while the guy behind the counter filled out the pink index card with the borrower’s details. Why couldn’t he be quicker about it? My frets didn’t speed him up. But any of today’s open source movie organizer [...]
December 3, 2009
I recently had the unpleasant task of transferring my music from my iPod to my computer’s hard drive. If you’ve ever been faced with the same task, you know that for some reason, unbeknownst to the end-user, Apple seems to think it’s hilarious to rename all of your iTunes music files on the iPod’s hard [...]
February 18, 2009
EDITOR’S NOTE 01 FEBRUARY 2012 – due to an alert reader warning us, we have now deactivated the link to the recommended app in this post. It seems it may now contain malware, harmful to your PC. If you still want to try the app, exercise extreme caution and scan the app thoroughly with an [...]
December 2, 2008
A traditional watermark is a variation in the thickness of paper that is visible under certain conditions. Watermarks have been used for security purposes for a long time. They have also been used by paper manufacturers as some indication of quality. In the digital age, watermarks are defined in a different way. There are basically [...]
