Web-based email is great because you can check it from any computer, but there’s one little catch: it’s inherently limited by your internet connection. From public WiFi to smartphones equipped with 3G, from mobile broadband cards to fledgling in-flight wireless on airplanes, Internet access is becoming more and more ubiquitous — but there are still [...]
Significantly increasing the utility and competitiveness of its Web-based e-mail service, Google is enabling an experimental ability to read, write, and search Gmail messages even while not connected to the network.
Google believes almost religiously in cloud computing, the idea that computer applications and data live on the Internet rather than on PCs. But there are [...]
A pre-release alpha version of a Mac version of uTorrent, the popular BitTorrent client for Windows, has been leaked to the public.
The details window of uTorrent’s Mac client, now confirmed to be in alpha.
(Credit: TorrentFreak)
Available from the Swedish torrent Web site The Pirate Bay, the Cocoa-based client has been expected since 2006 when BitTorrent, Inc., [...]
Windows only: Pazera Free Audio Extractor extracts audio from virtually any video file and outputs it to MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, or WAV formats. Just plug in your video file (it supports AVI, FLV, MP4, MPG, and more) into the program, choose your output type, and let it rip. Pazera takes care of the conversion [...]
Windows only: Stop wondering where the time went and start using a timer to be more productive. Cool Timer is a small timer application with three modes: countdown, stopwatch and alarm clock. You can customize the color scheme and size of the clock to make it easier to see it at a distance, and you [...]
One of the remedies I often recommend for a sluggish system is to defrag the hard drive. For those unfamiliar with the term, defragging involves reorganizing your hard disk by placing files closer together so your operating system can find them more quickly. Your Windows operating system comes with a disk defrag utility of its [...]
Why spend big bucks on graphics software when you can get many, if not most, of the same features from freeware? Here are three mui-expensive graphics apps and their free counterparts:
Adobe Illustrator Available for Windows only, Creative Docs .NET (yeah, weird name) is a vector-based graphic design tool for creating illustrations, manuals, flow charts, icons, and the like. [...]
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a little spoiled by all the free software out there. Seriously, I feel for the developers working hard to make a buck when there’s so much good freeware. Like these five gems, all of which I use almost daily and love dearly:
CrossLoop - Need remote access to another [...]
This combination video-conversion and creation tool boasts good speed and a nice set of features.CinemaForge’s polished interface is both handsome and rather simple to understand, the Tom Cruise of software if he weren’t into Scientology.
As a video converter, the application supports all expected formats. You also can choose to accompany any video with audio files of [...]
If you have a lot of media to browse through, no matter what viewer you use, it’s bound to take some time. Whatever the project may be–from picking the best shots from a pro photo shoot to getting the most action-packed movie clips from a birthday party–you need a good way to browse, compare, and [...]
