January 14th, 2010
Amarok is an open source music player with a great intuitive user-interface that breathes new life into your music collection. Play lists are easily created through drag and drop – and the sound can be adjusted to suit you listening environment using the built-in 10 band equalizer. Amarok also lets you listen to internet radio (mp3 streaming) including music from last.fm.
Other features include automatic cover and lyrics download, dynamic playlists, visualizations and podcasting. An least but not last – Amarok will also synchronize your music to your iPod. For the more technical users a scripting interface allows you to extend the functionality of Amarok.
Audacity 1.3.5 Whether it’s multichannel recording, easy editing, effects or audio analysis – Audacity sums it all up in this free and cross-platform tool. Effects includes changing pitch, equalization, compression and many other. Audacity also features noise removal that is capable of removing different kinds of constant noise from you audio files. New effects and be written and added using the Nyquist programming language.
Banshee is a music player with many advanced features. One of the most important is iPod synchronization, which is now available simple and easy on Linux. On top of that Banshee does a great job as a music player – importing/ripping CDs, organizing music, creating and managing playlists – and of course it is able to burn selected tracks back to CDs for “offline” listening. Like many other music players on the market – Banshee also supports podcasting. And did I forget to mention that Banshee of course also is able to synchronize with other portable media players such as Creative Nomads, Dell DJs and more. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 3rd, 2010
Computers offer lots of possibilities to take notes. Some options include creating text documents, using online services or software programs. CintaNotes belongs to the latter group. The program is a portable note taking software for the Windows operating system that comes with a lot of clever ideas which might convince some users to give it a try.
Several options are available to take notes in the software. If the window of CintaNotes is active then pressing the INS key will create a new note. Text can be copied from other applications with the global shortcut Ctrl F12 and it is also possible to paste information from the clipboard into the software either with a right-click and the selection of paste or by pressing the shortcut CTRL V if the window of the note taking application is active.
All notes that are taken are by default untagged. CintaNotes uses tags to group notes so that it is easier to keep an overview. Tags are by default displayed in a left sidebar while the notes of the selected tab are displayed in the larger main area of the application.
Each note can be edited with a double-click. This opens an editor where the title and text of the note as well as the tags and link can be edited. Content that is pasted from websites automatically contains the link and the title of the website as well as the selected text.
The changes become immediately visible in the main window of the program. A search form is provided at the top which can be used to perform a global or filtered search.
The options of the program contain several interesting features. It is for instance possible to define a hotkey to spawn a new note window globally or enable silent clipping which will not bring the note taking window to the front as long as the option is active.
Backups of the notes are performed automatically by the program and an import and export option makes it possible to synchronize notes on multiple computer systems.
CintaNotes is a resource friendly application that uses less than 8 Megabytes of computer memory while running. It is compatible with most Microsoft operating systems including Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. The note taking software can be downloaded from the developer’s website where it is available as a portable version and an installer.
source : http://www.ghacks.net/2010/01/15/cintanotes-note-taking-software-windows/
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December 23rd, 2009
Alien Arena 2009 is a freeware online deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux!
The game runs on the CRX engine, and features modern effects such as real-time lighting and shadows, shaders, light bloom, reflective surfaces and much more, while still being able to run on even modest systems.
The game includes a built in, as well as external server browser and chat client. Players can look up their stats online, chat with other players, and become part of a growing community.
The Alien Arena experience is now a finely tuned, highly polished body of work.
Alien Arena has transformed into a lean, clean, fragging machine, with stunning visual effects that are usually reserved for commercial titles. This isn’t your daddy’s Alien Arena – it’s not even last year’s model, with a host of new and improved maps, sounds and music. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 22nd, 2009
Directing a movie about fighter pilots and having Namco’s Project Aces team make the game of it is sort of like making an action flick and getting Infinity Ward on board, or a fantasy adventure movie with Square Enix handling the console translation. No developer on Earth has Namco’s pedigree when it comes to sky-high arcade combat, with eight Ace Combat games under their belt, but it’s the first time they’ve lent their expertise to a despicable movie license.
The movie is an animated flick from the director of Ghost in the Shell about a team of never-aging, genetically engineered parallel universe pilots engaged in a war staged for entertainment by two corporations in an otherwise peaceful world. Yep.
Cutting straight through that nonsense, the plot becomes a wafer-thin premise upon which to bring Ace Combat to the Wii, for that’s exactly what Namco have done. Aside from a few new tricks and tweaks, and minus the ultra-modern planes seen in the recent Ace Combat titles on other consoles, Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces is as Ace Combat as they come. It feels like an AC game, has disgustingly dense menus like an AC game, lifts the same mission structure from recent AC games and even borrows a bunch of sound effects from the most recent console Ace Combat. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 2nd, 2009
There are now well over 100,000 apps available for iPhone and iPod touch, and, surprisingly, many of the best are free.
The following list showcases our ten favourites, and includes iPhone applications for social networking, travel, news, photography, productivity and more.
If your favourites aren’t covered, tell us all about them in the comments.
1. Facebook
Once an ugly duckling, but now – as of version 3 – a social-network-aware swan, Facebook is a triumph. The revised grid-based ‘home screens’ provide speedy access to regularly visited sections (news feed, notifications, and so on) and pages, and the experience is such that it in many ways beats the browser version.
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September 26th, 2009
Dell Studio 1557 is the specific appellation of the, until now, current version of the fancy multimedia specialist from Dell. On offer is/was a notebook with a Pentium Dual-Core, Core 2 Duo or respectively the high-performance Core i7 chips from Intel. A certain systematic application of performance was chosen to your whim or respectively as far as your pennies went. The entry-level configuration was around 479 Euro (plus delivery), equipped with an Intel T4300 CPU (2.1 GHz) and integrated Intel GMA 4500M HD graphics chip.
A pre-sample of the new Studio 1558 underlies the following review, equipped with a combination of the brand-new Intel Core i5 520M CPU and the just-as-new CPU-integrated Intel GMA HD graphics solution. Therefore the laptop appears in the entry-level range of the series and shouldn’t cost much more than its predecessor of a comparable configuration. As seen in the Core i7 architecture, you can count on an enormous performance leap in the Core i5 dual-core CPUs, and a whole range of new features are carried over, which only recently catapulted the i7 chips onto the tops of the CPU charts.
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September 2nd, 2009
Unused and bad sections appear in the registry with time. It leads to errors and poorer system performance.
Defrag will allow you to improve the Windows performance and stability due to registry defragmentation. The program is designed in the form of a convenient wizard so even inexperienced users can speed up their computers. Defrag allows you to defragment all registry sections on all popular systems including new Windows 7 and 64-bit platforms.
The dynamic defragmentation map is used to evaluate the condition of the registry. Defragmentation results are displayed in the form of a convenient and visual report. The program is now more stable because the defragmentation procedure is now started at the operating system startup. Read the rest of this entry »
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August 14th, 2009
GigaBythe the motherboard’s company from taiwan had launched a new motherboard AMD socket am3. The version is a MA785GT-UD3H. In this computer and hardware’s article I am going to explain and review this product, Are the hardware is for you? Let see it! And I hope you can choose the best motherboard.
MA785GT-UD3H included video card slot as much as a two PCIe X16 slot, and it already use Crossfire or Hybrid Crosfire with added one or two discrete graphic. Meanwhile, for the memory, this Motherboard AMD Socket AM3 already can using DDR3 with maximum performa, In the 1800 MHz with overlock way and 1600MHz in Maximum standard speed. Read the rest of this entry »
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August 12th, 2009
OK so you’ve just reinstalled Windows for whatever reason (update, clean slate etc). Now you have to sit there for about an hour just downloading all your favourite programs again and installing them. Well not any more.
Ninite is a revolutionary new way of installing the software you want. Instead of having to download and install each program individually Ninite will do it all for you. Simply go to the Ninite website, choose the programs you want, download the installer and run it. That’s it. That simple. You can now go off and do something less boring whilst Ninite downloads and installs the programs for you.
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July 18th, 2009
A few years before Bill Gates retired from Microsoft, he was convinced that tablet or pen-based computers would be the next computing paradigm. If you count the iPhone as a tablet computer, then he was right.
But he wasn’t talking about the iPhone. He was talking about the 9-inch (and larger) real pen-based tablet machine that was kind of like a Wacom tablet with a screen on it.
To date these things have been clunkers, plain and simple. And none of their fancy features have actually worked that well. The supposed handwriting recognition has barely worked and navigation has been less tough to use. That’s not to say that tablets weren’t good for things like filling out forms or sketching. But they’ve always been heavy, clumsy, and easily breakable.
But now Apple is going to try and change the image by rolling out something new. Unfortunately Apple took an early and premature shot at this market with the ill-fated Newton. It was a Waterloo moment for the company and it could happen again unless a lot of things about this new shot are different. Read the rest of this entry »
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