Empathy is an out of the box application that came along with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). It is an application that allows you to integrate all of your chat accounts into user interface. Let’s say you have a yahoo account, a gmail account, and a facebook account, wouldn’t it …

As a Computer Science student in university some 4 years ago, I tried my hand at Adobe Photoshop and failed miserably. Not that I’m a slow learner or anything, just that those Adobe products were just too complex —“ both in terms of their use interfaces and the design …

At home I use BT Broadband Option 1 which puts a 5GB monthly cap on my usage, which is enough for one person but there is more than one person in my house using it, so we have to monitor our usage.
To do this I use a program called …

We are living in a digital world now a days. Some decades back, people read news in newspaper, read books, go to markets for shopping, propose someone by letters; but now, people read news on internet, read e-books instead of books, shop online and propose someone on Facebook or …

I love Windows Media Center and I use it to organize my videos, music and pictures. Windows Media Center was included with my computer and I believe that it’s great. It gives me the ability to organize all of my media items in one place without having …

GAIM began as instant messenger for Linux/Unix fans and has, in the last two years, become a viable mainstream client for Windows Operating System users, as well. GAIM offers up the same network connections as familiar multi-messenger clients, giving users the ability to chat on Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, …

When it comes to secure my PC from viruses, and worms, spywares, and lots of dangerous stuffs like these, I only trust on Norton antivirus, and I am using this antivirus software for many years, like about six years, and in the previous year I bought “Norton antivirus 2008″, …

Zapgrab is a very cool software that I recently discovered. MY husband downloaded it is some free download sites and saved a copy in my laptop. I was reluctant at first, I don’t know what I need it for. Anyways, it is just 30KB so there’s not much to …

Have you ever been in a public setting and browsing the Internet next to some nosy person who can’t stop trying to look at what you’re doing? If so, and if you like to have your privacy, then TabRenamizer is for you. TabRenamizer is a Mozilla Firefox addon which …

I was looking for a free alternative to the Documents to Go word processing app. Besides cost, my other requirement was that this program had to allow me to edit and create documents on my smartphone. After spending several minutes browsing through potential applications on the Android …

Six months are gone since I use a nice tool from my browser. Its name is “The Buzz” and it’s a small 10 kb. software called toolbar that installs into browsers. A toolbar is simply a line (similar to a small banner) that you can see on top of …

Music is just apart of my family. There isn’t anything really that I can do to change it. I find that sometimes it takes over our lives. We own so much music equipment and software that I told my husband that we need to consider selling some of it. …

After buying my Apple iPhone 4 and owning it for a couple of months, the time came again for me to get another App from the iTunes Store and this would be only the second App I buy after having vowed only to buy useful Apps that enhance my …

This software is very nice and I strongly recommend Blackberry users to have this; the other media players like Xenozu or Player for Youtube doesn’t work without a Wifi connection and a data plan, but this works just fine with only having a Wifi connection! This has it’s pros …

The only reason why I know anything about Wordpress Blogging Software is because my wife has taken the time to create her own blog. She should be what it was like to use Wordpress and ever since then I was hooked. Wordpress is what I would like to call a …

I have just read a book how to build a website for an amateur. It’s written that the basic software that I may need was Microsoft FrontPage similar like Microsoft words but in separate CD from Microsoft Company.
At first, I didn’t get the idea how to …

Limewire is so far, the fastest P2P file-sharing applications in the internet today. I had a Basic version of it yet I’m satisfied with its performance. I can download songs, videos, games, documents (.doc, .txt, etc.) and even pictures. This is my best internet-connected software. As a student, I …

Trend Micro AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware (2010) is not an anti-virus or anti-spyware program that I found to be efficient. Whenever I would run pretty much any type of scan, regardless of the parameters I set, the scan would take a rather long time to complete. This is about the …

Aol instant messenger otherwise known as AIM. I have been using it for years now to talk to people. I talk to my best friend who had to move to Florida once in a while. I like it a lot better than any other instant messenger. They are always …

Peterson Multimedia Guides - North American Birds
This review is about a software program for birdwatchers.
This software is amazing! It has comprehensive coverage of almost 1,000 species of birds, over 1400 photos and videos and bird calls.
You can type in the common name of the bird or the …

I had a hard time finding a tool I needed for my work and I have to admit at the time I almost had no chance and give up, I was directed to Lokad website; luckily they offer a free tool for computing workforce requirements with their free excel …

One of the most amazing SEO tools and freewares I have ever downloaded on the Internet is the SEO toolbar. You can find it on www.seobook.com and you can download it there.
If you are into SEO and you are looking for ways to improve your site’s traffic and page …

I listened to my husband thinking he knew what he was talking about. He told me that there was no way I was going to get a virus on my computer. I had a Mac at the time that I had just bought. The rumor was that Macs didn’t …

As many of you already know, Microsoft has made its newest computer operating system, Windows 7, available for trial since its beta stages. That means there have been millions of people like me who have been enjoying a free top-of-the-line OS for the past few months, as the trial …

CrazyTalk is quite a unique software. As far as I know, there isn’t any other software like this, or at least nothing as good at what CrazyTalk does.
CrazyTalk is basically a software that can animate still photos, in other words, in can make your photos talk. It does a …

Once I got into electronic books publishing, I required a more professional way of creating publications like electronic books and reports than simply creating them in the editable Microsoft Windows Office Word format, so I decided that I need a format which is widely used by consumers and is …

Twitter has really taken off recently; millions of people are now using the micro blogging service, even celebrities such as Stephen Fry and Chris Moyle’s! The simple service has really got people talking about it and following their friends and family, even the celebrities.
Twitter basically asks the question, what are …

I installed Windows Vista onto my computer for a short period of time and it caused so many issues that I decided to have the software uninstalled. Windows Vista caused my computer to freeze up and it also caused it to shut off by itself for no reason …

A little after the peer-to-peer software Bearshare changed its appearance and I noticed that whenever I searched I did not get as much results anymore, so I changed to another similar software called Limewire. At first, when I downloaded and began to use Limewire I thought it worked a …

I write up a lot of documents that I later want to create a PDF file with, but I hate using Adobe itself because it’s a complicated program, and I hadn’t at the time found a software that would convert a word document to a PDF file, so that …

I have a computer with Windows 7 installed and I’m always looking to change a setting or fix something so I use the control panel a lot. Of course the control panel comes already installed if you choose to buy Windows 7 or if like with my computer …

I had previously had this anti-virus on my computer, and had later taken it off for another. After having to do a recovery, and losing my other anti-virus I decided that the Free AVG anit-virus would work. After installing and deciding everything was working ok I shut …

I had been using Adobe Photoshop 6.0 for quite some time. Although I did not use it everyday, I still like the way it works. Most of the time, I used Photoshop to design and edit my layout in my personal blog. I could play around with a lot …

I bought Iolo’s System Mechanic Professional (ISMP) after one of my laptops began to give me more grief than usual. I went down to my local Office Depot and looked at what they had on the shelf. The features in ISMP were better than the other offerings …

This software makes it easy to keep track of what you are eating. With the design of a program like this, the most difficult thing is to accomplish is to make it quick and simple enough to use so that one is not spending a lot of time entering …

As a software programmer, I would like to introduce you to a great code editor. Notepad++ is a free program that can help you write and edit your application’s source code easily.
I have used Notepad++ and find it to be a pleasant experience. I think that this software is …

I use Adobe ImageReady software to create animations of images that I’ve made in Adobe Photoshop. I like that I can access ImageReady from the tools pallette in Photoshop, because you have to start with a layered image made in Photshop. I also love how easy ImageReady is to …

This was the very first app I downloaded for my iPhone 4, against all resistance inside of me as I decided that my iPhone 4 is going to be used mostly for productivity and business related tasks, so I chose Bento as the first app over others like games …

StyleWriter is simply the coolest writing software available. Oops… wait! That’s wrong! It’s not a writing software, it is a style and usage checker - a plain English editor. Do not confuse it with a grammar checker! While it does find grammatical errors, this is not its main purpose. …

I used the Avira AntiVir Personal Free Anti virus Software after I had a major disaster with my previous anti-virus software. I was really skeptical with the Free AntiVir because the last software which I installed was also free and it was horrible, it ruined my computer so with …

Part of my job is to delegate instructions that should be made online. There are lots of business endeavors that I have online and sometimes navigating the internet can be so catchy. Like what I do with my job and other undertakings, you can better delegate instructions if you …

Since Windows Millenium Edition every Windows release have had a built-in ZIP file manager named “compressed folders” and while that’s an included feature most users prefer having a third party tool to compress and decompress ZIP files. There are lots of applications to choose from. I personally choose 7zip …

My husband and I had our computer hacked via a keylogger virus, so we had no idea how much information was compromised. With identity theft being big nowadays, we just did not want to risk somebody getting and misusing our personal financial information.
I had seen the commercial for LifeLock …

If you do alot of online surveys you might find this product invaluble,basicly you give the software standard info about you ie your name address date of bith and it remembers it and fills in any online forms you request it to with the relevent information.Its ideal for anyone …

LimeWire is this awesome software for downloading free music and videos, images, programs, and documents. It’s mostly known for another way to get free music other than just buying songs for a dollar each on iTunes which eventually can get expensive. First off, the only bad thing about it …

This is one of those anti-virus software packs I would liken to the soccer position of a holding central midfielder, in that it is very industrious in a quiet sort of way but extremely effective at the same time.
Graphical User Interface elements
With my three-month long use of KIS 2012, …

I’m a transcriptionist, and I use this software for transcribing audio files to give my fingers a break when I get tired of typing. The software is easy to install, and is easy to train. You have to train the program to recognize how you speak for …

I’m going to sit back and admit something to my audience. I want them to know that this software was cheap s heck but it was one of the best cheap recording software’s I’ve veer used outside of Audacity. If you thought that I was excited
about Audacity then you aren’t …

In the Internet world there are lots of medium to communicate with others. Technology is changing everyday and new applications are coming to get in touch with your loved ones. Phone seems too expensive to communicate with all so people are sending emails, using web cams and chat on …

I downloaded this application from Blackberry Application World and it had a high rating of 4 out of 5 stars. When it comes to ratings a 4 out of 5 is very high as a perfect 5 out of 5 rating is rarely in effect so the others …