For a while now I’ve been trying to learn how to write documents using LaTeX, a document preparation system wich is really a document markup language (one can think of it almost like a programming language). I tried several tools and editors in both Windows and Linux environments but …

I’ve been a big fan of Google Chrome since the first beta was released. It became my default browser since the first time I surf the web with it and I really had try every browser that I have found. Since those first days when I replaced Internet Explorer …

I’ve always been a huge fan of paying someone else to do my taxes. I’ve always received good returns that way, and haven’t had to put too much thought into all the bills and paperwork that I’ve let gather up over the course of the tax year. I work …

My Photoshop journey began with Adobe Photoshop 5.5, 6, 7, CS, CS2 however the CS2 was the longest one, and now is Adobe Photoshop CS3 (when I wrote this I’ve known that the latest version is CS4 but I decided to stick to my CS3).
There are no …

This is my pledge at this time either for email or browsing, Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.7 aka 5.0 aka Gecko 20071128. SeaMonkey itself was started by Mozilla on 30 January 2006 with the release SeaMonkey 1.0 alpha version after the previous trial or released on 15 September 2005.
SeaMonkey is the …

Of all the anti virus software I have used in my lifetime, and I have used a whole lot, Avira has so far, proved to be the one I have used for the longest period of time to date.
So far, I have had nothing but the most pleasurable of …

This Blackberry software is very handy and it’s easily downloadable at Blackberry Application World, it’s free and it’s got a high rating and lots of reviews. I tried this and it was really satisfying as you’ll always need a dictionary wherever you go and there’s a dictionary, thesaurus, and …

I have used AVG Free Antivirus for well over a year and have had good luck with it for the most part. I did encounter one virus entering my computer which required me to reformat my computer to correct the problem, but I did not have my firewall …

I used to use Jeskola Buzz all the time. I wasn’t particularly good, but this software allows you great control in making all kinds of music. A talented person can do quite a lot with this software. I mostly just fooled around with it. Then …

In old days, when I first have interest in making a website, there is no other software that I used beside the Macromedia Dreamweaver. Although that software has made to be user friendly, but I still has some difficulties using that product. It is true that I can make …

One of the most important ways I can customize my computer is by adjusting the Date And Time Software in Windows. I like the fact that this software is so easy to use, and yet offers many useful options. Please let me share my experience of using this software …

Over the past year, Instagram has become one of the most popular smart phone apps worldwide and is one of the apps I continue to use and enjoy the most in my daily life. The concept of Instagram is to add different light filters and effects to …

HandyShopper is a little piece of software that makes my life very easy. As a woman, I have to do a lot of shopping. Using this little program on my palm top rather than the old-fashioned paper shopping lists makes all the difference. With HandyShopper I can create several …

This program actually does what it is supposed to. Actually, until I found this one, I was having a hard time looking for the right program to generate certain brainwaves, and with this program, I easily can now play sounds aimed at certain brainwaves like Beta, Alpha and Theta, …

Ares is, well, Ares. It’s nothing spectacular as far as a P2P program is concerned. It is good, gets you results and downloads. You can search for more than just audio, which is fairly standard these days. No ads or adware whatsoever, putting it ahead …

The browser is ultra fast especially when using the turbo mode because everything is being compressed and I am very amazed on how they put effort or work with this very unique feature. I first notice that the web browser is a bit buggy but anyone could expect for …

EditPlus is a text editor for Microsoft Windows with many features specially suited for programmers like syntax highlighting, code folding, find and replace with regular expressions support, auto indentation, auto completion, a tabbed interface, FTP integration (to upload files to a remote server), among others. A few days ago …

Released under the General Public License for usage, this is one of the most useful pieces of software I have on my many personal systems.
Mplayer movie player is about as easy as it gets in terms of playing of video files. I generally prefer it over some of my …

I have been using OneNote 2007 since just after it came out. It came packaged with Microsoft Office 2007, which I actually purchased specifically to use OneNote after reading a review on Life Hacker. I have not looked back since.
The software is a note-taking program which aims to keep …

I’m sure that everyone has had there say about Wordpress blog and website publishing software but I think I want to put my 2 cents in. I have used Wordpress for a long time and everything about it is great. Well, almost everything. I can’t say that I don’t have …

I got to end up with AVG being impressed by the free antivirus AVG released prior to its premium version; which provides such an excellent scanning and malware detection, that I find it difficult to get around. I really got the idea that the paid version would be having …

Microsoft has released yet another version of Windows. This version by far has gone above and beyond my expectations. I was ‘going in blind’ with my purchase of Windows 8 Pro, not knowing what to expect was kind of a bad feeling. The only information I …

Google Chrome is a new web browser I have been using for a few months now. I very much like it, however, it does have a few bugs attached to it. The interface and tabs are wonderful. Everything is easy to use, and simple drag and drop. Compared to …

Ad Aware SE Personal is a program that clears sypware and other harmful wares from your computer. It is produced by Lavasoft, a Swedish company. Ad Aware has been very useful for me, and it’s also free! It’s not shareware, so you are not expected to donate.
Upon first glance, …

Skype is an program which works very similar to a phone, except that if two people both have Skype online, they are able to talk on the microphone at any time both are online for absolutely free. Skype is a safe program to download without any spyware or adware. …

“Recuva” is a software which has saved my life about three times in one year. The first time I can remember was early last year when I had saved two very important documents on my MP3 player at school so that I could use them late when I went …

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX has to be one of the best web-editing programs on the market… Dreamweaver is one of the most widely sold programs that is used in the field of web page design. Dreamweaver makes editing and creating web pages a snap, which is why it\’s really worth …

I am not a frequent user from MegaUpload but I do download the MegaUpload Manager for some certain purposes. I do not download anything from MegaUpload since the slots for my country is always full. Of course there is some tricks in enabling downloads for my country but since …

As a quite common internet browser, I have found that Mozilla is the best browser out of all available in my opinion, the competition being mainly internet explorer.
Mozilla has many outstanding features that really set it apart from the internet explorer. Firstly, it just looks nicer. It has a …

VLC Media Player is a player for the computer that plays almost every media file. My favourite thing about VLC is how up to date it is and how well it plays all the files.
There are many features that VLC have, that others don’t.
For example, when playing a OGM …

I had heard some good things about this program and decided to give it a try. If you are constantly searching for some of the best videos on the net then you may want to give this application a consideration. The best part about this program is that it …

I am an avid user of Winrar 3.9. It is a zip utility tool which unzips or decompresses compressed files. It is a shareware which costs $35, and is like Zip Genius and other zip softwares which do the same thing.
But what I like about this software is …

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 …

Google Chrome is one of those internet browsers that I admire so much because of its minimalistic design and smooth user experience. However, there was something that made me opt for another browser instead.First off was security. Google Chrome did not have a feature that could automatically delete …

I have been using Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system occasionally in my work place. There are some things about it that I like and some that I dislike.
On the positive side, I think that Windows Vista is beautifully designed. For example, I like the background images that you put …

I bought this systems utilities fixer software hoping to clean up my computer a bit. Basically I have a lot of broken registries and shortcuts that don’t work anymore. I decided to use the Avanquest Fix It Utilities as they claim to speed up my PC and protect it …

This is a software that was actually a part of the Blog Power Pack package, which consisted of Blogging To The Bank and other books related to blog marketing by Rob Binwell. I have been using this program for a few months now and I have astounding results. It …

I’m pretty new to using my new Mac software. I’ve only been using Mac for a little over a year now, and I picked up my model during 2008, only a few months before iLife 09 came out. As such, I was stuck using iMovie 08, which, from what …

One month ago, I bought a Personal Computer, that came with the Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition pre-installed, designed for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
According to the suppliers, it comes pre-installed in entry-level computers, like Celeron, Celeron D, Celeron M, Duron, Geode, Sempron or similars, 300 MHz or higher, 64 …

Ares is a p2p software for downloading songs, videos, documents, or pictures from internet. I recently downloaded its latest vista version. Unlike the previous versions o Ares, I have to register this one in order to use it.
Ares works very simply, and effectively. If you want o search for …

Internet Explorer, popularly known as IE, is the most popular web browser of the world. It comes preloaded with al the versions of Windows, and that is pone of the reasons for its popularity, as most of the people around the world uses Windows as their operating system in …

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 …

Don’t you ever dare try this Eset Nod 32 Antivirus 4 (30 day trial home edition) if you don’t want to encounter the same problem as I had before! I actually was not having any problem with my personal computer in our office. I had only …

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution like Debian, Knoppix, SuSe or Red Hat. Ubuntu is an operating system like windows or MacOS and on top of that it is free! That’s because the Ubuntu community is based on the ideas of the Ubuntu manifesto: Software must be free, in the …

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 …

BBmonitor a speed test meter and monitor that will make you test your bandwidth so easy and very efficient, you can record your bandwidth test result in a database and that you can make a charts. BBmonitor help you to monitor your bandwidth so you can improve your bandwidth …

Choosing good anti-virus software is really tough these days, because there are so many good anti-virus software. Few days back I purchased “Mcaffe 2009 anti-virus” from an online shop, and I have to say that it is a pretty good anti-virus software.
It is giving me ultimate protection to …

Nowadays, watching videos have become an instant form of escapism. With just a slight twitch of a button, we can conveniently watch videos at our disposal. Youtube had exceptionally changed the way I utilize the internet for information. Now it’s also a form of entertainment. …

A part of iLife for a good while now, iDVD is a very interesting program with an extremely simple interface that allows you to put your movies and music onto a DVD that will actually work on your standard DVD player! It’s a pretty nice thing, but it has …

One of my home computers got into trouble some few days back. It suddenly got fake security warnings that kept popping up every single minute. That computer does not have anti-virus expect for Spybot Search and Destroy which has guarded it so well for more than a year. But …