I have been using Yahoo Mail for years already. I thought I will never have problem with this email since they are updating their system and software all the time. But my young brother said that I should be careful when using Yahoo mail since there are so many …

The Facebook application for my itouch is one of my most used apps on my iPod. One issue I do have with it is that I can not upload photos from my itouch to my facebook. I would like to be able to block applications from my Live Feed …

Let me be the one to tell you that when I first started my project, I wasn’t expecting to have to deal with so much drama. I searched online for a few months for a script that would be perfect for what I was trying to do. I mean …

Im in a band that does covers but we also have to do alot of original material. One of the programs I use to learn the original songs is Guitar Pro 5. Its a program that has tabs for every instrument and musical notation. People all over the internet …

One of the best software creations is this decade is OpenOffice, otherwise known as OO, currently in version 3. OpenOffice is the free open source version of Microsoft Word, and can be downloaded free from openoffice.org licensed completely free to use. The software fully mimics Microsoft …

Since I have been working as a freelance writer for many years, I decided that it would benefit me greatly by upgrading my word processing software to Microsoft Word, even though I didn’t really want to spend the money because it was so expensive. But, after I started to …

I have been venturing out into the Internets online money making opportunities, for which I have created hundreds of id and passwords. It was crazy for me to keep up with all the sites until I came across a wonderful software tool called Roboform. It is an …

Google Talk or is a program that allows people to communicate with each other in a messenger system. You can add people as you like and it is a lot of fun. Since it is owned by Google, it also has some cool features and is generally very functional …

Windows Live Messenger is a messenger service that I’ve used for many years and it allows me to communicate with all my friends and business contacts easily and safely. It is constantly updated and has a wide array of functions.
I especially love the smileys, they are so varied and …

As we know a computer that often connected to the Internet is vulnerable to malware, spyware and viruses so that any data or files very easily stolen by a third party. Therefore, I use software besides anti-virus to remove and eliminate traces of personal files in my computer. The …

Virtualization gives us the possibility of using more than one operating system simultaneously on the same computer, without any need of having to get more hardware. There are many virtualization solutions, one of them is VirtualBox, wich is a powerful virtualization software that can be used for both professional …

I have used a few video conferencing systems and for a PC the best one available (from the ones I’ve tried) is the Polycom PVX application. At work we have a lot of video conferences and have two main systems, a Polyxom QDX 6000 and a Polycom ViewStation, we …

While browsing for free picture editing software, I happened to come across Picasa 3 Photo editing software provided by Google. Ever since finding it about 2 or 3 years ago, I have not even browsed other free photo editing software on the net.
The best thing about this program …

Today after using it every day I am convinced that is the best search engine on the market. It’s structure is simple and quick to use and although I guess you all know I have to highlight it’s main advantages:
In the main page you find straight out the space …

Having to occasionally (and for vacations, intentionally) make a long distance, interstate drive always requires a good map. But the problem with the old Rand-McNally and similar road maps is simply that they aren’t always up to date, they can’t find a good hotel, campground, or National Park …

The Storm music software (made by Arturia) costs $149.00 srp complete with manuals in box. This music application has been around for awhile, a few years, and is very easy to learn. I found it quite easy to learn just for basic music making, but it has a lot …

As a student of web design, Adobe Dreamweaver has made my job and school work a breeze. It can be used by anyone; from experts to people who don’t even know how to hand code. You can make web pages in two different ways: you can hand code …

For website building, there isn’t a better application. Joomla is by far the best out there. It stands high above Dreamweaver or Frontpage, and miles above Wordpress. The features in Joomla are nearly endless. I have built a dozen website with the new version, and …

Brasero is the default application to burn CD and DVDs on the Gnome Desktop. It is a simple application that can burn audio CD and data CD or DVD. On its 2.26.1 version it also includes the option for creating video DVD and SVCD but I haven’t tried it …

Kids, be they 14 or 40 years of age, grow attached to older computer games, and this particular niche in the PC entertainment genre is growing at a steady rate—especially with the Mac and Linux crowds. The majorities of computer end-users aren’t programmers (you should have a basic …

The upgrade to Real Player Plus (music software) for $39 isn’t really worth it (www.real.com). While I do like Real player, the free version does everything you need. The Pro / Plus version does have a lot of good features. You can rip music and …

Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker makes it easy to design and create your own CD and DVD labels. The user interface is very intuitive. It comes with an included gallery with lots of artwork ready to be used as background for the disc label. There’s also an option to import …

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP is a suite of applications, developed by Microsoft to add or extend the Windows XP functionalities. There are many PowerToys available for download, there is one named color control that helps users manage color settings, one to view RAW image files, one to create …

Back on 2003 I had a dual boot configuration and had installed both Windows and Linux on my computer. One day, trying to install one version of Ututo-E Linux I somehow lost my Linux partition and with it all my data and files stored there. Those were stressful days. …

For programming PIC microcontrollers Microchip offers its great and free IDE MPLAB. That’s the best IDE available for programming microcontrollers, it can be used to write code, compile it, test it using simulation and debugging tools and even programming the actual microcontroller. MPLAB runs on Windows only, that’s bad …

The latest competitor to the iPhone’s Mobile Operating System is known as Android. Essentially, it was built by Google to install on cell phones from various manufacturers. Overall, Android is an excellent operating system and is well thought-out and designed. I have found it to be incredibly easy to …

Dreamweaver MX is a web-building program owned by Adobe and is a popular program among web designers and programmers who code and build websites and various scripts. I own this program and think it is a good web-building software which may look a little hard to use, but is …

Pretty May features three products, all skype-certified for small businesses who have a need for a budget-friendly system to handle calls. They have a Skype Call Recorder, a Skype Call Center, and a Skype PBX Gateway.
Our company had purchased both the Skype Call Recorder and the Skype Call Center …

Eagle Layout Editor is a schematic and printed circuit board designer. That means it can be used to both laying out a schematic design of an electric and electronic circuit and for designing it’s printed circuit board (PCB). Eagle Layout Editor is a strong and reliable solution and it’s …

Electronics Workbench, in its version 5.12, is the simplest electronic circuits simulator I have used. It does have some limitations and can not be compared to Isis Proteus or Multisim (wich came to replace Electronics Workbench), but at the same time those can’t be compared to EWB (Electronics Workbench). …

Real Player 10 is developed by Real Networks and can be downloaded from its developer website. I used this program to play various media files, and think it is a good program for a job well done. I like it and have no major complaints about it as far …

Over the last few years, there has been a huge shuffling of internet browsers. While many have come into creation, there seems to have been just as many that were popular at first, only to be acquired/absorbed, or completely abandoned by the digital masses. Of all the browsers that …

I got this software when I decided that I needed to have a bit of help with spells, recipes and rituals. This wonderful CD ROM comes with amazing full books on runes, witchcraft and all types of occult knowledge one would need. You can find numerous spells for everything …

I’m sure most systems administrators that works with Windows have at least one Linux Live CD with a few recovery tools on their toolbox. chntpw is a Linux utility that helps users and sys admins recover and reset Windows NT and up (Windows XP, Windows Vista and so on) …

VideoLAN player, VLC, is just the best media player available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It doesn’t have the best user interface (it’s too much simple and a little bit ugly) but it supports most audio and video formats without the need of installing any kind of …

With Security Essentials, Microsoft offers a security solution for all it’s clients. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free antivirus available for download to every Windows user (that has a legitimate copy of Windows of course). I’ve been using it since december of last year at work and haven’t had …

If there’s a lightweight media player for Windows that’s Media Player Classic. It has a small size (installer of version 6.4.9.1 weights around 1.9MB) and a very low RAM consumption. It has a retro looking interface, just like it’s name indicates, and that’s because the interface resembles the one …

There are many CD and DVD burners available for the Windows enviroment. Some are commercial and expensive (like Nero or Alcohol 120), some are free (like ImgBurn) but there’s one that it’s both free and open source: InfraRecorder. Altough it seems to be in a very early development stage …

For years CuteFTP has been one of the best FTP clients available for Windows. I’ve been using it since 1999 and have always been happy with it. Now GlobalSCAPE has released three different versions of CuteFTP: Lite, Home and Pro. CuteFTP Home is very easy to use and lets …

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 experience with the Safari web browser by Apple hasn’t been so great. I’ve been using it on a Windows XP operating system with a moderately slow, not too fast computer for a couple of months now, and lemme just tell you, it does not match up to Google …

On Linux my text editor of choice is gedit. It comes with the Gnome desktop and comes with a few set of features that make working with it a charm. It’s default feature set is really reduced, they are just a few but they may be the most used …

Whenever I need to burn a CD or DVD while using Windows, ImgBurn is the choice for sure. It’s a free CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray burning application that supports many drives (all the latest are supported) and a wide range of image file formats: the standard ISO image file and a bunch …

SPB mobile shell is in my opinion the best windows mobile UI you can buy. It incorporates all the features you need to access on your device into a simple, good looking and easy to use space. It has essentially the same style as android; 3 or 5 pages …

CyberLink PowerDirector is one of the best powerful video editing software,it is easy to use.The software takes advantage of technology and has so many professional grade tools, but it’s easy enough that you can actually use it. I started using it just a Month back, so that I can …

My least favorite software is Linux CAD. This software has the worst features for drawing on the computer. There are other software packages that will blow this lame software away. I don’t like the toolbars or the links. The action items are terrible and they …

IrfanView, commonly called Iview, is an amazingly compact combination image viewer, editor, and converter that also allows users to play certain image and music file extensions. Iview is available for all Windows user formats from Windows 9x through Windows 7.
Iview is a very small file download, which makes it …

I edit videos a lot. And if it’s a video required for a subject at school, there are a lot of instances wherein I need resources online, mostly videos which I can incorporate in my own video. Not every video that I download can be read by my editing …

Oh boy there are things that I like to do in my spare time and that is make music and organize them to the point where I have to put them on my Mp3 player. Well I have gotten into the habit of organizing my photos and my videos. After …

Part of my want to say that this software is really stupid and part of me want to say that it’s actually a great software to have. Honestly I don’t know how I feel about it. I had some mixed feelings involved with this software. Funny thing is, every …