The Internet is a fascinating place, especially when countries that don’t embrace the concepts of freedom of expression and freedom of speech are involved. Each of these countries takes it’s own view of what the Internet should be, and they usually follow political conventions in those countries. This could be set to change however. Iran [...]
How To Correct Out Of Sync Audio Before Burning Video To DVD
One of the most annoying video viewing experiences, at least for me, is a video where the audio is out of sync. You can think of video and audio as two lines that need to start at the same time to be in sync. If either one starts first, you get audio that is out [...]
Firefox Aurora Jumps To Version 6
I’m probably not the only user who thinks that the increase in Firefox builds has made it difficulty to keep up to date with the latest features and improvements. Just like Google Chrome, it has gotten to a point where I’m less interested in keeping track of the development progress. The main reason for that [...]
Bubble Hero 2 [Game Saturday]
Do you remember the game Bubble Bobble? It came out for lots of different 8-bit and 16-bit systems, and even had a spin-off called Rainbow Island, which in my opinion was even better than the original. Bubble Bobble is one of those franchises that everyone knows about, even though it has not really been active [...]
Text To Speech Reader
Converting text to speech can be very handy at times, for instance when you have to read a document but no time at hand to actually read it. You could convert it to an audio file to listen to the document in your car, on a train or on your daily morning run. We have [...]
ASUS to Unveil Phone / Tablet at Computex
ASUS look set to unveil a phone that can dock with a tablet at the Computex event at the end of this month, according to reports. The device, which is rumoured to be called the Padfone, looks to be the second iteration we’ve seen of the PC in your pocket concept that Motorola recently pioneered [...]
Firefox AutoCopy, Copy Text Automatically To The Clipboard
When I want to copy text in Firefox I usually highlight it with the mouse and use the shortcut Ctr-c to copy it. Sometimes I right-click on the highlighted text instead and select Copy from the context menu. Both operations take time to complete. It takes three mouse-clicks for instance to copy text only with [...]
Game Explorer Builder, Add, Delete Game Explorer Games
Are you using Game Explorer under Windows? The feature was introduced in Vista by Microsoft and has been carried over to Windows 7. The purpose of the feature was to provide users with a central hub for all their games. You may know that Microsoft is far away from that goal, as Game Explorer is [...]
Google Unveils eWallet
Google officially launched its new mobile service, eWallet on Thursday 26th May at a ceremony held in New York with its partners, the main one of which was MasterCard. This system enables users to turn their mobile phones into smart credit cards. Now you can make credit card transactions by just swiping their hand held [...]