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IFTTT Puts the Internet to Work For Y...
I’m kicking myself for not having broken this news earlier (it’s now all over the internet and I knew about it a few days before!), but it’s still important enough to mention, even if it’s a little late.
IFTTT is the acronym for a website named If This Then That; something which any programmer will recognize at once. [...]
Geosense adds Location Awareness to y...
Most phones now have GPS in them, but laptops are being left behind. Most manufacturers don’t offer a GPS chip, and those that can be bought are expensive. Geosense aims to bring GPS functionality to your PC without the need for any expensive GPS chips or software.
Geosense uses IP and Wi-Fi lookup powered by Google to find your location, so [...]
ManageFlitter Helps with Twitter Clea...
If you have a lot of people who you follow on Twitter, it can get pretty confusing. ManageFlitter is a simple tool that helps you figure out who to follow, and who you should get rid of.
ManageFlitter also tells you:
who’s following you that you don’t follow back
people you follow and don’t follow you back
persons that tweets a lot
who bare [...]
Texter Helps you Type Faster
Most people write the same things over and over again. Think of an email: Dear Person,… you may even have a whole paragraph that you always use. I’ve recently had to increase the amount of time I spend programming. Like other code monkeys may know, a lot of the stuff we write is repetitious. For example, in Java, I often write: System.out.pri [...]
OnLive [Review]
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centralasian
Say you want to play a video game. What do you normally do? Go to the store, buy a game (and a console if you don’t have one), then go home and play it. If you play on a PC, you might get to skip having to go to the store and just download it. The problem is, to play a game, you need a dedicated machine (either a console, or an [...]
The Top 5 Greatest Firefox Add-Ons
Tristan Nitot
Firefox and Chrome are of the two most popular web browsers out right now. They both have great features, but the biggest, most popular thing about them are the add-ons. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is, in and of itself, a good browser; but Firefox has add-ons, and that’s what keeps me coming back. My favorite add-ons give Fi [...]
Windows Media Center Customization, P...
videocrab
Recording TV is a great convenience; I like it so much that I rarely watch live television anymore. Skipping commercials lets you forget about fast-forwarding so you can sit back and enjoy the show.
Running Vista? Skip this part.
WtvWatcher
Setting up commercial skipping on Windows 7 involves one extra step that Vista doesn’t need [...]
Program Review: Digg and StumbleUpon ...
topgold
Do you Digg? Stumble? Great! These sites let you keep track of what you and other like you are interested in, giving you the opportunity to share, comment, rate, and review any website. However, this can be tedious if you don’t have easy access to your accounts. This is where our awesome toolbar come in. Now, before going any further [...]
Windows Media Center Customization, P...
teknophilia
Windows Media Center (WMC) has a pretty boring theme with its blue background. There are many options to deal with this, but I think that Media Center studio is the best solution, giving a flexible and comprehensive tool set while still being easy to use. With Media Center Studio, you can not only change the background, you can a [...]
Windows Media Center Customization, P...
Evan Hamilton
In the previous two posts, we covered how to use plug-ins to extend the functionality of Windows Media Center (WMC). Now, we’ll see how we can take a separate platform, in this case Hulu’s Desktop Client, and blend it with Media Center. Media Center is a great program if you’ve been able to record your show or movie, but what i [...]
Review: Web of Trust (WOT)
teknophilia
There are countless programs, add-ons, and websites that promise to keep you safe online. As far as I know, there hasn’t been a single fool-proof solution other than to not use the internet at all. What we tend to do instead is browse carefully, steering clear of dubious websites. While most anti-virus suites now come with the al [...]
Windows Media Center Customization, P...
Wade Rockett
In the first part of this segment on Windows Media Center (WMC) customization, we’ve covered how to view RSS feeds, see the Weather, and set a Sleep Timer. Now, we’ll cover two other plug-ins, RadioTime and Macrotube. The first is self-explanatory, giving you easy access to internet radio; Macrotube does the same for YouTube, Da [...]
Windows Media Center Customization, P...
Tim O’Bryan
Windows Media Center is a simple and robust media center, and is actually a pretty good piece of software that comes in all versions of Vista and Windows 8. While it does take care of all the basic things that any media center application is expected to do, it still fells a bit… lacking. Windows Media Center (WMC) seems to [...]
Program Review: Soluto
teknophilia
Soluto calls itself “Anti-Frustration Software” and actually does a pretty good job of accomplishing that. The goal of Soluto is to create a PC Genome, a database of all the software available along with a description of what it is, what it does, and how it affects your system performance. A quick visit to its homepage will give [...]
Program Review: Windows Live Essentia...
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The Windows Live Essentials beta was released yesterday, showing off all the new features in the 4th “wave”.
teknophilia
The download page gives you two options, either select the main package to get the entire suite, or choose the second package which allows you to select which programs to install.
teknophi [...]
Program Review: Scrybe
teknophilia
If you’re reading this, chances are you doing so on a laptop. Most MacBooks have gestures on their touchpad, letting you carry out commands and programs by making the appropriate gesture on the touchpad. For Windows users, a surprisingly small amount of laptops have this feature. If you have a Synaptics touchpad (and chances are [...]
Program Review: Microsoft Fix it Cent...
teknophilia
Currently in beta testing, Microsoft Fix It Center is an automated maintenance center for common issues faced by windows users. If you have a Windows Passport, you can still sign in to the website, and it looks like the final version should be released soon.
It comes with automated fixes for most issues:
Aero
Diagnose and repair [...]
YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode
talkindie
YouTube, like most websites, uses cookies to get information about its visitors. Cookies are used on both YouTube’s website and embedded videos. Now, to give us more control over these cookies, YouTube has enabled a privacy-enhanced mode for its embedded videos. It’s a bit of a halfway-meeting point between YouTube and privac [...]
Program Review: Revo Uninstaller
If you didn’t like trying out programs, or more importantly, actually making sure they don’t mess up your computer and leave remnants behind. There are freeware and paid versions, with the paid one offering more “advanced” scanning algorithms; although there isn’t really anything the paid one has that the free copy can’t do well.
TechO [...]
Review: Computer and Registry Cleaner...
Computer cleaners have debuted right along with personal computers. They are known for causing all kinds of damage to your files, Operating System (OS), and registry; as long as they’re not an outright virus. I’ve even heard that they occasionally help clean up your computer.
I’ll be comparing five different cleaners with the following requir [...]
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