Free Must Have Windows Tools You’ve just brought home a new computer and now you want to enable it with all the best software that’s available (mostly for free). (Let’s also assume that you didn’t take my advice to forget Windows and install Linux Ubuntu). Here are some of the best applications you should have [...]
Review: Download MP3 Audio from Youtube Website review – YouTube Tracks – download mp3 audio from video clips Ever wanted to grab the audio from a Youtube clip? Are there live versions of songs that you can’t get anywhere else? We’ve discovered this nifty utility that allows you to simply input the URL of the [...]
I’m using Ubuntu, but this method should work on every Linux distribution. Copy Youtube, Myspace, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Megafile, MegaVideo Videos to Your Desktop When you watch a video on Youtube and other popular video file sharing sites, Adobe’s Flash Player is temporarily storing the file in your /tmp directory. Once you leave the page or [...]
Digital Camera Photos Corrupted or Unreadable We’ve all dreaded it. You take hundreds of photos with your digital camera at your daughter’s birthday party or a friend’s wedding, and when you plug in the Compact Flash, or SD card into your reader, and to your dismay the photos are missing or unreadable due to corruption. [...]
How to get those website files on to your iPod. Problem: You have a whole bunch of downloaded FLV files from Youtube, MySpace, DailyMotion, Metacafe, Veoh, etc… You want to put them on your portable video player, such as an Ipod Itouch, Nano, Creative Vision W, or SansaDisk (and many others). There are several programs [...]
We all have last year’s model routers lying around our house collecting dust. With the help of crafty open source developers, you can now bring these older devices to their full potential. If you have a linksys or compatible broadband/wireless router, there are several free open source firmware upgrades you can use to make your [...]
Here’s a tip that will save you money! If you are ever travelling through Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport and have time on your hands, you will probably want to hook up to their Wifi service for internet browsing on your laptop. If you sign up for their KPN service, a daily pass costs 16 EUR (~$18). [...]
The Browser With More Firefox is a good internet browser. It’s the first real example of open source taking on the establishment, and winning. The real power in Firefox is the plethora of add-ons and tools that have been written by the open source community. There are literally hundreds (by now, thousands) of add-ons, plugins, [...]