5 features and more to look for in Opera 9.5
Posted on June 19, 2008 - Filed Under Software Reviews | 3 Comments
June 2008 seems to have been all about browsers.
The market is dominated by 4 main competitors; Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari. The remainder is made up of modified browsers built on top of these and include Flock, Maxthon and Songbird.
It’s been a little competitive recently with Mozilla and Opera launching increasingly frequent beta versions then multiple Refresh Candidates (RC) over the last month.
Opera finally pushed the completed 9.5 version and Mozilla announced the 17th as the official release date.
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Read More..>>Webtops - 20 online desktops to try
Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under Software Reviews | 3 Comments
The ultimate aim of cloud-computing proponents is to rid yourself of the need to ever need desktop software or operating systems. Data is to be accessible and secure anywhere you have Internet access and services light and installation free.
They’ve also been saying this for nearly two decades now.
See the idea of moving all your work online just doesn’t really appeal to most people, especially the mainstream end-user. In fact it really didn’t appeal to me even only 2 years ago, however over that time I’ve found my self slowly making all my data accessible via the net, without even knowing that’s what I doing.
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Read More..>>IM Chatters Will LUV Pidgin Software
Posted on May 29, 2008 - Filed Under Software Reviews | 1 Comment
There’s been a good deal of buzz lately about Pidgin Software, and rightly so. Pidgin is the latest trend in instant messaging software that lets you use all of your different IM programs at the same time.
Do you have multiple IM accounts? Enjoy chatting with your buddies all day long? Want your IMing to be easier and more convenient? Then, my friend, Pidgin is for you.
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Read More..>>Monitor your home with your webcam using HomeCamera
Posted on May 21, 2008 - Filed Under Software Reviews | 4 Comments
Are you looking for home monitoring security systems? Maybe you want to setup a remote home monitor where you can watch what’s going on inside your home across the Internet at your office? Commercial home monitoring systems can be quite expensive and fairly hard to setup.
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could buy a wireless webcam from your local Best Buy and setup your own Internet-enabled home monitoring system? Well you can! And till August of 2008, you can do it for free!
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Read More..>>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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