Voice recognition software has been around for a long time, but it’s only in the last few years that it has become accurate enough and simple enough to use with any regularity. It has also been rather expensive, with “basic” versions running around $80-100 and “premium” versions running to several hundred dollars – prompting many […]
VLC Media Player is one of the most versatile media players ever. What it lacks in looks, it more than makes up for in functionality. It can read and save all the major formats of video and audio, and much more than that, it can rip DVDs. This is a pretty simple process, if you […]
We have a GMail productivity tip here for users who get too many email messages per day. Read and delete messages by making minimum use of the mouse.
When Google launched GMail with 1GB of free storage, the GMail interface had neither a Delete Button nor any sort of Delete keyboard shortcut to move email messages […]
This is one of my all-time favourite tricks!
It took me far too many years to finally get sick of how slow Adobe Acrobat loads PDF files. It was taking between 10 and 30 seconds to load a single file. How could this be? Well, I found a solution and I highly recommend it to everyone, […]
A few months ago, VMware released a free version of its desktop virtualization software, VMware Player. It’s a great application for running a second operating system on your desktop; the only problem is you can’t create new virtual images using VMware Player. With a little work, however, you can use VMware Player to create guest […]
An undocumented feature in the latest Xbox360 dashbaord update has surfaced — a cache clear. In order to perform this "maintenance" follow the instructions below. (Thanks, Kakarotto)
Go to the system blade and then memory. Press Y on either the HDD or a MU and then press X,X,Left Bumper, Right Bumper, X,X. Once you do this […]
Over the last few years, WordPress has emerged as one of the best blogging tools available. In fact, it contains many features of a full-on content management system and can be used for everything from blogs to regular ol’ websites (with the advantage that even non-techie site owners can easily update the pages once the […]
You don’t need to be reminded yet again to keep your virus protection up-to-date or to be cautious about the software you download. But what if you’re not sure about the safety of a program you want to run or install? You can attempt a limited installation of any piece of suspect software by using […]
Audio cassette tapes, once the primary audio storage medium, are now disappearing quickly from the music store shelves to be replaced with Audio CDs. If you still own a pile of audio cassettes, now is the perfect time to convert them to MP3 files or Windows Media Audio before they’re gone forever.
Digitizing analog tapes essentially […]
Web 2.0 is a term coined by O’Reilly describing the new trends in design and development appearing across a flood of innovative websites. This tutorial will show you how to create some of the more popular "Web 2.0" design effects using Photoshop.
Gradients
The reflective or glass effect was first popularized by Apple. There have been many […]
The ability to use virtual machines for testing or development has been available to Linux users for quite some time in the form of the commercial VMware Workstation, Xen, Usermode Linux, and other virtualization software. Recently, VMware released a beta of its VMware Server product, which is a freely available, albeit slimmed-down, version of its […]