Posts from 'Software' category

I still remember the time when I had installed Windows Media Player, BSPlayer, QuickTime and a few several other media player programs just to be able to playback all kinds of media files floating around at that time.All this came to an end when I've discovered VLC media player, a free alternative that has the big advantage of including the video and audio codecs in the software install kit, s...

If you are like me and like to have everything backed up and available on your computers (and other mobile devices) at any time you're probably using solutions like Dropbox and Google Docs. If with Dropbox your files are also stored on your PC, so you're covered on matter what not the same can be said about Google Docs, or any of their services for that matter.What it means to you is that at a...

Imagine the following situation: you're sipping from a Starbucks coffee and turn around for a few seconds to someone who asked you a polite question, then as you turn back you discover your laptop was stolen. Don't laugh, that's a problem many people are facing all over the world. As mobile devices become more and more important to use because of the data they contain a situation like this becomes...

A KVM switch is a device that allows you to use one keyboard, mouse and monitor to control multiple computers (see definition here). It's a pretty expensive device, depending on how many computers you want to control and I'm sure most of you don't need one.But for those moments when you feel like working with your computers in a multi-monitor like desktop layout it's nice to be able to do it w...

A few years ago every PC and laptop in the world had an optical drive. Right now you see a lot of computers without one. This is cool for size and weight, but uncool when you have to (re)install Windows, which let's face it, is something you have to do at least once a year to maintain system performance.The purpose of this article is to guide and teach you how to create a Windows 7 USB boot dr...

Usually if you want a backup or to free up space on your hard disk the most comfortable and cheap option is to go for burning the data on a disc.  The only thing left is to choose a burning application that fits our needs. In the following article I will present you 8 such applications.The following applications are also compatible with external optical units. Ashampoo Burning Studio Free U...

If you're using Windows 7 from some time now you must have observed it comes by default with a good array of wallpapers, grouped by themes. Interestingly enough those wallpapers rotate every few minutes by themselves. If you set up your own wallpaper in Windows 7 things change and you seem to lose the ability to rotate wallpapers automatically.I've used the word 'seem' because you're not actua...

Wordpress is the most used blogging platform out there. It's free, it's updated very often and there are tons of plugins and a huge community willing to help you. Today version 3.2 was released, also as a free download. Here's what you can expect from it.At the end of the post there are instructions about how to get it and and why you should upgrade right now. Wordpress 3.2 new featuresR...

Every day we use a diversity of communication channels such as the phone, mail, instant messaging and social networks, according to the situation we are in. What if we had all our contacts gathered in a place in order to communicate faster?Digsby offers you a solution: you can communicate simultaneously over more instant message accounts (Yahoo Messenger, MSN, AIM, Google Talk, Facebook Chat, ...

After Google offered their users the possibility to use the Maps application Microsoft launched a similar application known as Bing Maps (it has also been called Live Search Maps or Windows Live Maps). Google started 2007 by implementing a new online service of viewing streets (360°) called Street View. If at the beginning only boulevards and roads from the United States were available for viewin...