InSync Is Google Drive For Power Users
Dropbox has long been considered the main player in cloud data synchronization, but services like Google Drive and Microsoft's SkyDrive are busy making a comeback. With a big and familiar user base, and more competitive pricing, it'll be hard on Dropbox to maintain its current position in the market. Personally, I've always been a Google fanboy, so when Google Docs changed into Google Drive, I was naturally very excited.
3 Tools To Unleash Your Mac OS X Menu Bar
The menu bar on my Mac gets more attention these days than the Dock. The reason for this is quite simple - it's incredibly compact and dynamic in comparison. One menu bar application will show you an unread count of your email inbox, but remain unobtrusive. That application is accompanied by numerous useful tools and system settings that are within easy reach without taking up a lot of screen real-estate.
5 Initially Premium MMO Games That Are Now Free To Play [MUO Gaming]
It's hard to say where the gaming industry is heading, but freemium games are likely playing a big part in it. Where traditional games ask for your sixty dollars up front, freemium games take their cut through micro-payment, and advertising systems. It's shown to be a popular business model, and although the overall quality of these games is not always on par with their big-budget counterparts, they're quickly catching up.
Circumvent Social Reader Applications With Unsocialize [Chrome & Firefox]
In the beginning, Facebook integration was bliss. It allowed you to skip the often tedious sign up process by pressing that single blue button. But like almost every other interesting invention to date, there's potential for misuse and abuse. Mind you, it's nothing that should keep you up at night. Rather, the abuse I'm talking about comes in alternating doses of annoyance and discomfort.
How To Split Double Paged Or Double Columned PDF Files [Mac]
I'm all in favor of paper conservation and keeping our collective environmental footprint in check, so naturally I understand why some people feel obliged to print two 'pages' side by side on one physical page; a phenomenon I like to call 'double-print'. But even though PDF's are often destined for print, the fact is they are just as often distributed digitally.
How Browser Extensions Can Mess Up A Captcha & What To Do About It
The ‘captcha failed’ notification is constantly lurking in the shadows. At times, it’s almost as if some dark, twisted entity is getting a laugh out of you. You’ve just painstakingly entered every stupid detail about yourself into a sign-up form, and then it strikes. Business as usual, right? You bite back a curse and diligently go through the entire ordeal once more.
UberStrike - A Free MMOFPS In Your Browser Or On Your Mac
UberStrike is a fast-paced cross-platform MMOFPS (or 'online shooter' in short), with over five million registered users, and one million active players per month. It reminds at the same time of Counter Strike and of Quake, which is no easy feat.
HimmelBar - A Menu Bar Application Launcher For Mac
Most productivity enhancing applications are either overkills, or inflexible in regard to an established workflow. The exceptions on this rule often manage to fly under the radar; make using your computer easier, without impacting the way you do your work. That's why try out Himmelbar with its predefined application shortlists.
Watch It - Queue Your Favorite Movies Online & Get Them On Your Platform
I've got this note-taking application on my cellphone. I guess it's like the "friend zone" of knowledge, a one way road. If you're a thought, it's the last place you want to end up. It's not intentional. You can blame it on those cool websites that help me manage my work, my ideas, my books. But if something isn't picked up by any of those websites, the notebook vultures get free reign.
Top Free Ways to Stream Video from Your Computer to Your Mobile or Tablet
Have a bunch of video files on your computer but want to watch them on your tablet? Not a problem.
3 Ways To Easily Print Out The Contents Of A Directory Or Folder [Mac]
Say you want to get a list of all the files contained in a certain folder. How do you go about it? The most straightforward way might be to jot down those names in TextEdit, and if we're talking about 4 or 5 files it might even be the fastest way. Not so when you're looking at hundreds or thousands of files, or if this task is a recurring one. In that case, we use our computer to solve this for us.
Newser & Nokia Bring The Perfect News App To Your Windows Phone 7
Paper news is in decline, and not without reason. With the plethora of electronic devices available to, and in possession of, the consumer, it is easier than ever to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in the world. Smartphones and tablets, the digital papers of today, perhaps lend themselves better to news reading on the go than any other digital platform.
Enjoy Your Comic Books With ComicBookLover [Mac & iOS]
Comics are an often under-appreciated form of fiction. Some of the graphic novels I've read rank right up there with my favorite fantasy books. But this article is not meant to recruit new comic book lovers. Rather it's to cater to my fellow enthusiasts. For books, I've got my trusted Sony eReader. Alas, this device doesn't carry itself as well with comics. That's where the tablet comes in.
ShareMouse - Use One Mouse & One Keyboard Across Multiple Computers
Better even than a multiple monitor set-up, is the multiple computer set-up. A familiar phenomenon for the geek with a laptop for on the go and a desktop computer at home or at work. Instead of splitting your computing power over several displays, you're putting several disjunct systems in parallel. Then again, it's almost comical how you have to juggle your computer mice and keyboards.
Cobook: A Beautiful & Powerful Address Book Replacement [Mac]
The contacts synchronization feature on my smartphone prompted me to get my contacts in order. I was rewarded for this effort a few months later when that same cellphone started breaking down, and decided to do away with all of my data — emails, contacts, applications — the whole lot of it. Restoring it all from the cloud took a measly five minutes. And yet I've never been able to get my contacts sorted out on my Mac. I guess I don't like Address Book.
Drag And Drop Subtitle Downloads With SolEol [Mac]
The wait for subtitle downloads has become a far too common annoyance. There are apps galore that will help facilitating this simple task; on Mac OS X as well as Windows. Queue SolEol, is an application that can be set up in such a way that downloading subtitles takes but a meager few seconds.
3 Applications To Speed Up Your Downloads [Mac]
Browsers have much improved over the past few years. I remember a time when downloading large files in-browser was the chore of legends. Every modern browser now has a fairly decent download manager built in. I must be getting old. Things have improved, but we're not there yet. Download resume capabilities have been added in some of these browsers, but more often than not they only work haphazardly.
How To Turn A Personal Domain Into Your Own Personalized Link Shortener
Link shorteners are a dime a dozen. Even Google and StumbleUpon have joined the fray, because a shortened URL doesn't just look good. They also go a long way to improving the usability of links. Even if you're not limited by 140 characters, shortened links are easier to remember, and it keep your shares, and those of your readers, uncluttered.
How To Make Your Own Computer Game [Part 2]
In part one we saw how to create your own text-based game, platformer, or first person shooter in the blink of an eye, often with mere drag-and-drop procedures. Those tools already allowed you to tell your own interactive story, but your influence on gameplay mechanics remained limited. This week features tools of intermediate complexity.
How To Configure Your Own iPad FTP Server [Jailbreak]
If you've jailbroken your iPad, there are many ways to transfer files to and fro between your trusty tablet and your computer. However, most of them require you to open some kind of application on the iPad-side. If you're willing to invest some little time in initial preparations, SFTP is one hard to beat candidate for iOS file transfers.