The diminutive personal digital assistants, or PDAs, are considered a niche product, favored by mobile workers who prefer not to carry full-size laptops on the road.
Originally intended as personal information managers (PIM), PDAs of late became more versatile as faster processors, bigger memory and other capabilities like WiFi and Bluetooth were added. There are many […]
Microsoft Popfly is based on their Silverlight software (their version of flash).
The alpha release has a drag-and-drop mashup creator that is really amazing. Elements of the mashups are called ‘blocks’, and you can drag blocks onto the desktop and connect them. Information items are selected from drop-down menus - no programming language required. One of […]
iSquint is a popular video conversion software for Mac.
It offers users ways of converting their videos to various formats and completing tasks such as auto cropping and fitting 18 hours of video onto one DVD, (although I am yet to figure how someone would use that) in addition to converting wrong format videos for iPod […]
ChucK is an open source audio programming language.
Chuck’s developers claim it is “strongly timed”. This means that everything can be controlled in real time and code may be modified on the fly, while the program is running. Chuck fully supports MIDI, OSC, HID devices and multi channel audio and works under Windows, Linux and Mac/OS. […]
Novel writers know that standard word processors, such as WordPerfect or MS Word, aren’t always the best tool to use in crafting their masterpieces.
Those programs just aren’t made to keep track of the data that goes into writing a novel, and are feature-overkill for what writers need. Commercial software for writing novel exists, but is […]
While working with computers for the purpose of writing reports and sometime surfing Internet, I have been frequently using certain key commands or key combination that I found very useful and I wanted to share them here. Hoepfully they will be helpful to general users in daily applications, writing notes or reports or surfing Internet.
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