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Kid3 Semi-Automatic Audio File Tagger

Kid3 is a handy versatile audio tag editor for Windows, Linux and Macintosh computer systems. The program offers options to edit and convert various ID3 tag formats. The supported formats include mp3, flac, mp4 and wma among others. Probably the biggest selling point of the program is the integration of multiple online music databases. This [...]

Author: , Thursday April 7, 2011
Categories: Software, Windows

AVG LiveKive Online Backup Service Launches

AVG LiveKive was introduced last month as a beta version. Users from all over the world were able to signup for the service for free and use 5 Gigabytes of space during the beta period. Today, AVG launched the online backup service LiveKive in select countries. The basic concept of the service has not changed [...]

Author: , Thursday April 7, 2011
Categories: Mac, Software, Windows

Windows 8 Aero Automatic Window Colorization

I like simple colors when it comes to my user interface in Windows. I do not need transparency, fancy color schemes, shadows and other effects. That’s why I use the Aero Basic theme and not the standard Aero theme. But there are users who like the full blown Aero interface with everything enabled. The latest [...]

Author: , Thursday April 7, 2011
Categories: Open Source, Software, Windows

Google Mail: Manual Option To Add Contacts

I have more than 1000 contacts in Google Mail, all people that I know and hold dear. Just kidding. Everyone, and I mean everyone, who send you an email in the past was automatically added to your contacts, as was everyone that you send an email to. That was not really comfortable considering that spammers [...]

Author: , Thursday April 7, 2011
Categories: Email, Google

Mozilla Development Specifics Updated, Firefox 5 and 6 Release Dates

It will never again take more than a year to move from one major version of Firefox to the next, at least not unless Mozilla decides to change the current development specifics again. You may have already heard that you can expect new Firefox releases every three months from now on. The development specifics that [...]

Author: , Thursday April 7, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

NetGear NeoTV 550 HD Set-Top Box Review

Those of you who follow me on Twitter or through other social networks may know that for the last month I’ve been testing NetGear’s new, top of the range Neo TV 550 Ultimate HD Media. This box is a small, and I really do mean small, do it all box for the connected home.  It [...]

Author: , Thursday April 7, 2011
Categories: Hardware

WinScan2PDF, Scan Documents, Save As PDF

I do not like scanners and printers. Why? Because it can be really difficulty to troubleshoot them. That’s a pretty selfish reason, I know, but I’m cursing more than usual on days that a family member or friend asks me to fix a printer or scanner. Lets talk about scanning for a moment. Most people [...]

Author: , Thursday April 7, 2011
Categories: Software, Windows

WinGrooves, Grooveshark Desktop Player

Grooveshark is pretty awesome, which can mostly be attributed to the fact that the service can be used without registering an account first. That’s rare on today’s Internet. Grooveshark is a web application that you can use to find and play music. You can use it to discover new music, tune into genre based radio [...]

Author: , Wednesday April 6, 2011
Categories: Software, Windows

Google Scribe Updated, More Languages Added

Google introduced the text completion service Google Scribe in September of 2010. Back then it was only available for English texts. The Google labs service Google Scribe analyses the text that has been written by the user to give real-time word and phrase auto-suggestions. Scribe displays suggestions as soon as you start typing the first [...]

Author: , Wednesday April 6, 2011
Categories: Google, Google Chrome

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