Most people don’t see Presidents Day as an actual holiday, but rather a day off from school or work. Google see’s this long weekend off as a reason to learn something new. Why not actually learn something about the presidents on Presidents Day? Google’s recently released Showcase for U.S. Presidents will not only give you…Continue Reading
The latest version of Google Earth allows users to get a Bing-like experience when dropping the Pegman to a location with Street View imagery. You will also notice that he sits on the right hand side of the screen above the zoom slider ready for a trip. When viewing imagery in street view you can…Continue Reading
As an avid virtual globe-trotter I was very happy to hear about Google’s addition of the 360Cities.net to Google Earth’s layers. 360Cities.net is a community of photographers that submit high resolution 360 degree panoramic images of locations throughout the world. The images are denoted by 360 in a red circle. When you click on one…Continue Reading
One of the neatest features Picasa sports is the ability to Geotag your pictures using Google Earth. When you geotag a picture you are essentially adding GPS coordinates to the EXIF data contained in your picture (more on EXIF here). When you geotag your pictures you can view them on a map in Google Earth…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
