Optimize, tweak and tune Windows XP using Tune-Up Utilities 2008
Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under Software Reviews | Leave a Comment
Tune-up Utilities is an application which is essentially a suite of smaller applications that will, well, tune up your system. It retails at 49.95$, but is worth every penny.
Features
TU offers a very wide range of features that cover nearly every aspect of your system. First up, is the Drive Defrag, which is a utility that is a more powerful version of the Windows Defragmenter that you probably normally use. Performing a Defrag regularly with this nifty little utility will definitely help improve your overall system performance. Sadly, it is a bit slow, but is still perfectly tolerable.
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Read More..>>Portable Scribus - a powerful, free (portable) desktop publishing tool
Posted on January 30, 2008 - Filed Under Software Reviews | Leave a Comment
You really do have to love open-source. Open-source software is free and can often replace costly commercial apps, which is the case with Scribus, an open-source desktop publishing and page layout application that puts professional-looking documents within the reach of non-professionals like me, and maybe you. I’ve chosen to feature the portable version of Scribus because it is a lot simpler to download and install than its full-sized cousin. It works within the Portable Apps suite, featured in an earlier post on this blog.
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Read More..>>Synchronize your Outlook calendar with Google calendar using Calgoo
Posted on January 21, 2008 - Filed Under Software Reviews | 1 Comment
Want to synchronize your Outlook calendar with Google Calendar? You probably have the same problem I do when it comes to managing tasks in your calendar: you have some appointments that you have stored in Outlook on your local computer and you have some tasks typed into Google Calendar online, maybe because you were at a different computer and couldn’t put it into Outlook.
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Read More..>>Review of Live Documents - Office 2007 online replacement
Posted on January 18, 2008 - Filed Under Software Reviews | 7 Comments
I still use Microsoft Office to create, edit and modify documents, spreadsheets, and powerpoint presentations, but maybe not for too much longer! Why? There’s a new online office suite coming out soon called Live Documents and the only word I have for it is kickass! Imagine an online version of Microsoft Office 2007 that looks just the same, works faster, and is completely free!
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Read More..>>Search and find digital pictures quickly and easily using Photology
Posted on January 15, 2008 - Filed Under Software Reviews | 3 Comments
Overwhelmed by too many digital photos on your computer? Can’t find the time to sit there and tag each photo or separate them into organized folders, etc? If you’re like me, you probably have a billion photos that are just sitting in one giant folder all with names like DSC0100939 with no way to figure out what is what!
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Read More..>>Capture a video of your PC screen and share it online using uTipu
Posted on January 8, 2008 - Filed Under Software Reviews | 9 Comments
Recently, I wrote about a Flixn, a cool web service that you can use to record a video of yourself while online, not need to upload a recorded video from your computer. Flixn was geared more towards people recording themselves using a webcam and then sharing it with friends and family.
uTipu is a cool website that allows you to record anything on your computer screen and share it with online for free. uTipu’s name stems from the fact that users can create tutorial videos for instructional purposes and share them with whoever wants to learn!
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