Managing a workspace as an independent contractor or micro company works much differently than in the past. There was a time when the independent contractor would either go out and find their own office space and pay for an entire office or stay home and work from bed. Those were pretty much the only two [...]
Helium Audio Converter, Convert, Analyze Music Files
If your music collection comes from multiple sources like mine does, downloads, rips and online purchases for instance, then it may be a collection of different music formats and probably a few files that are not playing correctly or have incorrect tags. Tools like MediaMonkey or Mp3 Diag offer the tools to convert and correct [...]
YouTube Redesign Cosmic Panda Now Available
A YouTube redesign is something that could backfire tremendously. We have seen it happen before with slight design changes that Google has been heavily criticized for. That’s probably the main reason why the new Cosmic Panda design is offered as an alternative to the default YouTube design and layout. Users who would like to switch [...]
Opera Releases First Opera 12 Snapshot
It has been eight days since the release of Opera 11.50, called Swordfish. In that time the new browser version was downloaded more than 32 million times. While that pales with download rates of Firefox and Google Chrome, it is still an astonishing feat for a web browser that is neglected by the majority of [...]
Cantio, Online YouTube Music Player
YouTube with its vast assortment of music videos is one of the best locations on the Internet to find and listen to music. The overall site layout is on the other hand not super ideal for listening to music, especially if you want to listen to multiple songs. The only option to do this comfortably [...]
Could Your Smartphone Contribute to Your Death?
Smartphones are wonderful things that have helped people do so much more, be so much more productive and keep in touch with friends and family. Nobody will doubt the benefits of the smartphone for these tasks. What would happen though if you were to be in an accident, or incapacitated in some way. Could your [...]
Mozilla Firefox Gets Major Memory Improvements
Memory usage has always been the Achilles’ heel of the Firefox browser for part of the user base. Mozilla acknowledges that and is currently working on optimizing the browser’s memory usage significantly. One would normally assume that opening a tab increases memory usage, and that closing the same tab would drop memory utilization again to [...]
Google+ And Businesses? Not Right Now, Says Google!
Facebook’s presentation yesterday could not put a serious dent into the Google+ hype machine. But not everything is golden and first restrictions and unpleasant surprises have come to light as well. Google’s putting the focus in private websites at the moment, which some businesses, like the German mag GPlusOne had to experience first hand. Google [...]
Facebook and Google Exchange Blows Over Google+ Success
While many people online thought that the battle between Google and Facebook might cool off once Google+ was released, the events of the past week have proven quite the opposite. First, Google+ surprised the world by being remarkably good. After a number of failed social networking projects there was a great deal of speculation around [...]