It is no secret to anyone that between the dates of April 17th and 19th, still as yet unnamed hackers broke into Sony’s database and stole the personal data of more than 100 million users of Sony’s PS3 Network, Qriocity entertainment service and the online gaming network, Sony Online. Sony claims to be using industry [...]
Convert Video Into Mp3 Files
Many programs can be used to convert videos into mp3 format, so that the audio becomes accessible in a separate file. This can be helpful to turn music videos downloaded from YouTube into audio format, or a presentation that you have no time to watch but enough time to listen to. Video 2 MP3 is [...]
Will Windows run at 1GHz, gHacks find out!
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the next version of Windows running on ARM processors at only 1GHz. Many people have been sceptical, few more so than myself. Rather than be a naysayer however I decided I’d find out if Windows really could run on processors with this little grunt so Microsoft kindly sent [...]
PC Decrapifier, Remove Unwanted Software From PCs
One of the things that you can be relatively sure of when buying a new PC or laptop is that it will be filled with software that you do not necessarily need at all. PC manufacturers make a good chunk of money from those applications that ship with their PCs, and it is unlikely that [...]
Chrome OS, WebOS, Microsoft’s OS Competition in 2012
We may still be at least a year away from Windows 8′s big debut in 2012, but the OS arena is heating up like never before, and new competitors are stepping up to the plate. It’s no big secret that Google has been preparing a streamlined, Chrome-esque operating system to challenge Microsoft’s double decade monopoly. [...]
Thunderbird 5 Beta 1, Firefox 5 Beta 3 Released
Mozilla has released two new betas today. Thunderbird 5 Beta 1 is the first beta version of the upcoming version 5 of the Thunderbird desktop email client. Thunderbird users who are currently running a Miramar released should get update notifications soon. It is furthermore possible to manually check for updates to download and install the [...]
CD, DVD, Blu-Ray Recovery Software
I still have CDs lying around that I have created more than ten years ago. Some of them are still working fine while others have unreadable sectors or files. I’m not sure if the type and manufacturer of each individual recordable CD has something to do with that, or if it is more a storage [...]
Twitter Announced Launch of Photo-Service
Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, announced to the world yesterday that Twitter was going to be rolling out its very own photo-sharing service over the next few weeks. He made this announcement yesterday, at the D9 conference and it was met with “tweets” throughout the technical world. Costolo says that Twitter photos won’t be competing with [...]
Create Flash Cards With Multi-Platform Software Cabra
Flash cards can be an effective learning technique. It is especially effective to learn vocabulary and subject matters that can be learned via a question and answer format, which is for instance true for factual information. A question, word, phrase or sentence is usually added to one side of the card, and an answer, word [...]