Category Archives for: Computer Software

May 13, 2008

Can You Believe It? One Fifth of U.S. Households Have Never Used Email!

Because we are so, so connected, we think everybody else is too ... But a new survey finds a substantial number of households have not crossed the "Digital Divide." According to National Technology Scan, a forthcoming study from Parks Associates...


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A New Way to Stargaze via the WorldWide Telescope

Maybe it's time to get a new telescope or upgrade for the future in another way? According to a report in today's New York Times, the skies may be the next frontier in travel, but not even the wealthiest...


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May 8, 2008

HP Goes Upline

Do we really need another online storage company? Apparently, HP thinks so and has launched Upline, a data storage service that lets you put your data in a more secure, online headquarters location. As we should have learned by...


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May 2, 2008

Taking a Slice Out of Apple's Time Machine

No doubt about it, but Apple's Time Machine is a wonderful piece of magic, er software, that enables you to easily backup your computer and then easily see all of the files you've backed up. Trouble is that you can...


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April 1, 2008

Skype and other VoIP Apps on Mobile Phones

It seems new software comes out daily that enables you to run a VoIP application, such as Skype, on your mobile phone natively, through a bridged gateway, or using the Skype API. While Skype is certainly the most popular VoIP...


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February 9, 2008

DVRMSToolbox For Vista 1.2.1.1 Released

DVRMSToolbox For Vista 1.2.1.1 was just released. DVRMSToolbox is a very cool video converter utility for converting TV programs (in Microsoft DVR-MS format) on your Vista PC to .wmv for playback on the Zune video player. Even cooler it can...


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January 2, 2008

Streaming TV with Skype

How would you like to use your Slingbox with Skype or is it Skype with Slingbox? Anyway... For a few months now I've been playing with using Skype along with a Slingbox, a popular gadget that lets you stream your...


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December 20, 2007

More 3D Avatars

3D animated avatars using either "cartoonish" or even realistic photos are nothing new. Gizmoz was one of the first to allow you to animate avatars that were based on real photos of yourself. The software would automatically detect and add...


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March 1, 2007

Adobe's Photoshop Heading Online? Why Not?

Adobe intends to offer a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing program in the next three to six months. According to reports, this hosted version of Photoshop is part of a bigger company strategy to introduce Internet-delivered services that complement...


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February 27, 2007

Google Apps vs. Office: Ready for Prime Time?

Nice to have piles of money and go around looking for things to do with it. How about Google updating its direct-competition to Microsoft's Office franchise? How many of you out there have made the move to Google for your basic...


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February 23, 2007

CorelDraw X3 Graphics Suite: How Sweet It Is!

Yes, everyone has their favorite graphic design programs, but CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 is a comprehensive graphics suite that lets you tackle a wide variety of projects -- from logo creation and Web graphics to multi-page marketing brochures to or eye-catching signs. (Is that...


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February 2, 2007

Gates on Gates (I Mean Vista)

It's hard work selling a new OS today -- not like it used to be. Now we have Bill Gates being interviewed on what Windows Vista means to me, to you and to all of us. Guess if we really...


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February 1, 2007

Why Can't Vista See Clearly Now?

All that software development time! yet we have problems already springing up in Microsoft's new Windows Vista! Today's dilemma is all about speech recognition (more here from the BBC) -- truly a technology that would seem to be embraced by everyone,...


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January 30, 2007

Maybe Vista Is Big at Wal-Mart?

I get all kinds of stuff in my e-mail (you can only imagine!), but intrigued with today's Wal-Mart Wire, which featured -- can you believe it! -- Windows Vista! (Wire is the weekly e-flyer from the big bad boy...


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Well, We Lined Up for Vista ...

Funny (for me, not for Microsoft) to see this report about no one lining up to buy the new Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office when it went on sale in SF. Well, if you attended the big soiree in NYC...


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