Archive for June, 2009

IM+ IPhone App Review

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

This is a nifty little app for the iPhone. This works just like a normal messenger service and you can have a number of accounts on this, including Facebook (but only for the premium version).

You get a choice of status’ as well (Online, Away, Invisible and Offline). The UI is pretty straight forward and intuitive. […]

Does WebEx Meeting Work

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Recently, I have been working with a company that makes extensive use of WebEx meeting. (A Cisco product) This is is a virtual meeting place site.

The company/host establishes a virtual meeting room. Payment is based on number of attendees and length of time. We have kept a meeting room open for over 4 hours, but […]

Use Your PC As An Alarm Clock

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

You can use your computer to wake yourself (or your neighbors!) each morning. This is done by using the windows Task Scheduler in conjunction with an MP3 playback application.

In this case, we use Winamp and Windows Media Player. Here’s how you go about creating the loudest and most effective clock in your house. First create […]

MediaCoder Batch Converter

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Recently I had to transcode a batch of music from one format to another. A friend of mine recommended MediaCoder, a free media conversion utility for Windows XP and up.

At first boot the interface looks daunting, but newer versions have apparently made the transcoding process much easier. When MediaCoder starts, it opens a web form […]

Sharing Files Online

Monday, June 15th, 2009

RapidShare is a very simple and easy to use website for uploading files.

Any types of files can be uploaded and transferred to any person in the world. Just upload your file, and a link will be generated for the uploaded file. Along with the link, it contains 3 “recipient” email address fields. The downloadable link […]

Daemon Tools Lite

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

How many times have you downloaded an ISO image files (typically huge installation files) for software and looking for a CD/DVD for burning them so that you can use them for installation.

This is the issue which Daemon Tools solves for you. Daemon Tools is one of the best optical media emulation software applications for Microsoft […]