If you want to send a video to computer users with limited technical knowledge you usually have to consider that they might not be able to play it if you send it in a video format that is not supported by default by their operating system. There are three possibilities for this situation. Number one [...]
Yahoo Meme Invites
Yahoo Meme is more or less Yahoo’s version of Twitter. It is currently in alpha stage and can only be accessed by users who received an invite from a user who is already using the platform. Yahoo Meme is different from Twitter as it offers its users more options. Probably the most exciting option is [...]
Microsoft Security Essentials – Microsoft Software Program
Microsoft Security Essentials is a free security software that is developed by Microsoft. The security software was released as a limited beta to users in the United States, Brazil and China. It was (actually still is) possible to download the beta from download portals like Betanews without experiencing limitations. That’s what many users did and [...]
Don’t search, do – with GNOME Do
Recently I wrote an an article covering the Easystroke mouse gesture tool (“Start applications using mouse gestures with Easystroke“.) That article explained how easily you can set up a simple mouse gesture to start an application. In the comments one reader brought up the handy GNOME desktop tool GNOME Do. GNOME Do is one of [...]
Download FreeDB Music Information About Artists And Albums
FreeDB is one of the largest music databases that can be accessed freely on the Internet. Users can access the website to search for artists, bands, albums or music genres and the service is used by several mp3 taggers and CD rippers to automatically add the correct information to the music files. FreeDB Grabber is [...]
Quick Windows Productivity Tip
It happens every now and then that you need to perform an operation on several programs or windows at once, for example to minimize them, close them or display them side by side. Most Windows users perform the same operation for every program or window individually. A far better solution for this is to select [...]
Paste And Go Firefox Add-on To Speed Up Copy Paste Load Operations
I reviewed the first Page And Go Firefox add-on back in 2006. Since then lots has changed with the old add-on now defunct and Paste and Go 3 released offering increased functionality. The basic concept of the add-on remains the same. Instead of having to copy a phrase, pasting it into the address bar or [...]
PodCast Downloader Robert’s Podcatcher
Some music management programs like iTunes or Winamp support podcasts out of the box which makes it very easy to subscribe to and download podcasts from within their program interfaces. Other players on the other hand might not provide podcast download and subscription options. That’s where Robert’s Podcatcher might come in handy. The portable software [...]
Published Google Docs Documents To Appear In Google Search
How would you announce a major change to a product that is likely going to affect a large userbase? Probably not in the same way that Google announced upcoming changes to their popular document management and editing platform Google Docs. In a recent post at the Google Docs Help Forum Marie, a Google employee, notified [...]