TechCrunch ran a story back in February were they claimed that Last.fm data was handed over to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The data dump in question was being analyzed to find information about unreleased music tracks that have been played by users. They received lots of fire for that article from Last.fm [...]
Automatic Image Resizing Software Shrink Pic
The size of digital photos and images has increased tremendously in the last years. Sizes larger than one Megabyte are not uncommon these days which becomes problematic when emailing photos or uploading them to websites on the Internet. Most users resize photos before they email or upload them. This does become a nuisance if the [...]
Disk Defragmenting Software Ultra Defrag
Most users agree that the disk defragmentation software that ships with Microsoft Windows PCs is not the best piece of computer software to defragment a computer system efficiently. Probably the main point of criticism centers around speed but there are others that weight in as well especially where functionality is concerned. That’s the main reason [...]
Watch TV And Video With StreamTorrent
StreamTorrent is a free software program for the Windows operating system that allows users to watch – and stream – TV and videos over the Internet. The relatively unknown application provides access to hundreds of popular TV stations including BBC One, BBC Two, ESPN 360, Fox Sports 2, ESPN and HBO. The software uses P2P [...]
Create a 3D logo with The GIMP
Any of you that do any graphic design or web development know how important it is to have tools at your disposal to handle just about any task that might come your way. And even if you don’t have graphic design skills you will, someday, have to create something quickly to use for a web [...]
Move Firefox Tabs From Top To Side
Many experienced Windows users have moved the Windows Taskbar from the bottom to the side. This offers several advantages like displaying more tabs at the same time without grouping them or saving horizontal screen estate. These users on the other hand rarely think about moving the tabs of the web browser to the side which [...]
Go Green with Ideas from greenUPGRADER
Do you have a spare sheet of cardboard lying around and are trying to find a use for it? You can turn it into a stand for your laptop. Have a ton of plastic bags lying around? Turn them into a funky bracelet. Think this is weird? Well, these, and other ideas like them are [...]
Svchost Process Analyzer
Svchost.exe seems to be one of the most secretive processes on the Windows operating system. Users who take a look at the Windows task manager usually discover that the svchost process is running multiple times. The task manager however does not provide detailed access to what every instance of the process does on the computer [...]
Google Chrome 2.0 released
Version 2.0 of Google Chrome, known as the Google browser, has been released yesterday by the Chrome development team. The web browser is now officially out of beta. The speed of development is a little surprising for a company that seems to love the beta tag on many of their products. Some think that Google [...]