The neat thing about modern mobile phones is that you can install additional applications on them. This article introduces three excellent mobile phone applications that have made my life a lot easier, and my cutting edge Nokia phone (currently E71) even better. In fact these have proven to be real life savers, are made by [...]
VSO’s PhotoDVD is a nice way to create a dvd slideshows of your favorite photos. It’s easy to use, but it also has a lot of features to configure to satisfy the more advanced users. The features of PhotoDVD include DVD subtitles, background music, a great amount of different visual animation effects and much more. [...]
Oh boy, this week the ‘quality’ of the biggest Linux distributions almost depressed me. Here are a couple fine examples of issues that one will never experience in the commercial software world. You see, after more than one and a half years of testing distributions, except for the times I was happily using PCLOS 2008, [...]
In case you have read our articles, you know that I’ve been doing plenty of distro hopping recently. The freedom of choice is one thing that Linux fans often boast about – you can choose in between hundreds of Linux distributions, a number of desktop environments and so on. Initially this freedom seems appealing [...]
The Apple iPhone 3G has finally arrived to the global market. It has been very interesting to read about the consumer reactions and initial comments regarding this device. After all the European / International market has used to advanced 3G smartphone concepts, and in that sense is much more demanding than the U.S. consumers on [...]
Couple of years ago Google released a nifty little Mozilla Firefox add-on known as Google Browser Sync. This little tool had the sole purpose of synchronizing the personal data in between multiple installation of Mozilla Firefox web browser. In other words it synchronized user’s passwords, bookmarks, saved form data and cookies in between multiple PC. [...]
ConvertXtoDVD 3 is the best tool for converting video files, and I mean virtually any video file, to standard compliant DVDs. It is very fast to process the files, while it produces very good quality as well. The best part of it however is the intuitive user interface, that is very user friendly but still [...]
Dealing with video files or DVD images on a PC typically involves massive hard drive operations, as the file sizes tend to be rather large. A full size DVD image is roughly 4.4 gigabytes, but high definition files (Blu-ray, HD DVD) can be ten times larger! Copying, moving or extracting files for archives takes time, [...]
The six month update cycles of major Linux distributions guarantees that there will be plenty of fresh releases for every spring and fall. At the end of 2007 we ranked the best distributions of the year, but as most distros have been refreshed since it is time to have another look at the current Linux [...]
GOTSent is an easy to use application for converting .MKV (Matroska) video files to the .MP4 (MPEG-4) format. The MPEG-4 is a videly supported audio/video format which can be played on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, HTPCs and number of other MP4 compatible playback devices. In this articles we explain the basics of using the [...]
