Archive for January, 2008

Why Use YouTube When There Are Better Ways to Watch & Download Videos Online?

Jan 28, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

Well I don’t mean ditch YouTube, just use another way of viewing what’s on YouTube. iDesktop.tv was designed around the idea of providing users an easy way to watch, search, and even save YouTube videos from their browser. iDesktop is like a Picasa for videos online, it even has the zoom slider, one of my [...]

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9 Online Photo Editors You Can Use

Jan 27, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

So you don’t want to spend the big bucks to buy a suite like Photoshop to edit pictures, are you’re sick of Microsoft Paint and other basic photo editors? What if I told you the next time you edit a picture will be online and for free? Don’t believe me? Well run a search on [...]

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6 Ways to Improve Your Windows Vista Experience

Jan 27, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

I’ve been using Vista for some time now and through time I’ve found that several annoyances can easily be fixed by several short tutorials found on the internet. I have a compiled a list of these tips that have certainly improved my Vista experience, hope it does the same for you. If you have any [...]

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How to Add A Second Axis to Your Charts in Excel

Jan 24, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

When using Excel and working with two data sets that differ greatly in range it can be difficult to chart those values due to the larger range of one of your data sets. A classic example of this would be your monthly data and your YTD values for each month. When you put these together [...]

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11 Obscure Google Tricks You Didn’t Know Existed

Jan 21, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

Many articles have been written on hacks, tips, etc over the number of ways and things that can be found using Google’s search platform. Just today I ran into an excellent post on lifehacker listing the Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks. The user response was immense and also full of [...]

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Make Your BlackBerry Look Like an iPhone

Jan 14, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

I absolutely love my BlackBerry, but I can’t help and love the eye candy whenever I see someone with an iPhone, the GUI is absolutely gorgeous. How would you like your BlackBerry to look like an iPhone? It can! It’s possible through the creation of a BlackBerry theme by Mathew Rogers. You have two options [...]

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How to Burn DVD Photo Slideshows Using Vista

Jan 10, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

Vista may have many issues, but we cannot take away the fact that this operating system is bundled with a lot of useful software. Among the number of programs available is Windows DVD Maker, which does exactly what the name implies, it makes DVD’s. The neat thing about this program is the ability to creates [...]

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How to Watch HDTV Channels for Free

Jan 08, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

How would you like to be able to watch Digital channels on your new HDTV without having to pay for Cable or Satellite? Well if you have one of your old UHF/VHF antenna’s still attached to the outside of your home or inside your garage, you might want to pull it out and plug it [...]

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Automatically Download Lyrics While Listening to Your Favorite Music

Jan 06, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

I was stumbling the net this morning and found an extremely useful plug-in for WinAmp and Windows Media Player. I know most of us use iTunes to manage our music, but for those of you who primarily use Windows Media Player for all of your music listening needs, this is the plug-in for you. It [...]

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7 Free BlackBerry Programs You Cannot Live Without

Jan 03, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

I received my first BlackBerry about a month ago and have since then praised it for its simplicity and usability. I was very excited when I discovered that there is a slew of free programs for my BlackBerry. Since most of us don’t have the time to roam the internet in search of free software [...]

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