Posted in Open Source, Productivity, Reviews on July 30th, 2007 by Ben Jim Comments Off
How to Catalogue your CDs/DVDs
I lots of files in my hard drive and i burn out gigabytes of data every month to keep my already overcapacitied hard disk from blowing. This translates into hundreds of CDs/DVDs. One thing I’ve noticed is that there is only so much space on the disk label to write down [...]
Posted in Fun, Gadgets, Guides on July 27th, 2007 by ck 1 Comment »
TrackIDâ„¢ is a feature available in most of the newer range of mobile phones from Sony Ericsson. It’s a feature that allows you to record a few seconds of a song using your mobile, and get track, artist and album information sent to you in seconds. While it’s a handy tool to help you [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Productivity on July 24th, 2007 by Benny Chew Comments Off
With media these days being produced and released in widescreen formats, it’s not surprising that most people would choose a widescreen LCD over a normal aspect ratio LCD (notice the fat black bands at the top and bottom of your screen?). This switch was further accelerated with widescreen LCD prices offered at relatively competitive prices [...]
This could be something already commonly known among experienced Windows Vista users, but there are still a fair amount of users who are unaware of it.
User Account Control (UAC) is a feature introduced in Windows Vista to improve the security of Windows by limiting applications to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase [...]
There are a couple of applications that may fail to start and complaint because its port is being used by a different application. This is a quick and dirty way of knowing which application is responsible for tying up a port on a Windows box.
Most people who own iPods would probably have iTunes installed to transfer/organise music on their iPod and most likely be coerced to use iTunes as their music player on their computer (it’s so tightly integrated that Apple labels it as iPod + iTunes, and apple.com/ipod goes to apple.com/itunes).
Unfortunately, I absolutely loathe iTunes (slow and clunky) [...]