Now You Can Use Dropbox to Share Big Files

20GB of iDisk space is available for users of the MobileMe family pack account, but it’s difficult to turn a blind eye to some of the excellent alternatives offered completely free of charge.  Now there is a wonderful alternative for consumers who wish to share big files. The majority of email services limit the size… Continue reading Now You Can Use Dropbox to Share Big Files

5 Great Games Available From Game Center

An application called Game Center was added to the iOS 4.1 that allows people to play games against either friends or randomly placed people. Although I am not a true gamer, someone who is will tell you it’s best when played with or against real humans. I can relax to a couple of games on… Continue reading 5 Great Games Available From Game Center

VLC is the Best for Divx Playback

The majority of people TiVo or otherwise record their favorite television shows in order to view them at a later time, one more convenient to them, and some may even have an entire computer equipped with television tuners that handle all these type of recordings.  Shows are then saved to specific hard drives, and then… Continue reading VLC is the Best for Divx Playback

Smart Measure is Inaccurate but Fun

Smart Measure is an application that will assist you in estimating the height and distance of a thing.  It makes use of the camera on your phone and an accelerometer in order to triangulate the height and distance, using very basic geometric calculations.  Although the developer of this app deserves an honorable mention for innovation… Continue reading Smart Measure is Inaccurate but Fun

Corel WordPerfect Office X5 Is the Only Real Alternative

Corel WordPerfect Office X5 is the only application suite, PC-based, for the office that does not attempt to copy Microsoft Office. It is a true alternative to the latter, not a diluted caricature, and this is the reason it continues to survive in our Microsoft dominated world. OpenOffice.org, available for free, is an example of… Continue reading Corel WordPerfect Office X5 Is the Only Real Alternative

Quickplay Primetime is Where We Hope Mobile TV Will Go

Mobile TV has been the talk of the town for the last couple of years, and, though it has been adopted widely throughout the region of the Asia Pacific, in America it is still starting up.  Although a number of niche services exist, carrier branded offerings and a couple of services that are at broadcast… Continue reading Quickplay Primetime is Where We Hope Mobile TV Will Go

Access to Over 9 Million Songs with the Rhapsody 2.0 Application

iPhone’s Rhapsody 2.0 allows users unlimited access to 9 million songs for just $9.99 monthly, a deal iTunes definitely does not provide.  This massive catalog of music, and the ability of offline playback make this application a wonderful addition to either the iPhone itself, or the iPod Touch.  It isn’t free, and, like the rest… Continue reading Access to Over 9 Million Songs with the Rhapsody 2.0 Application

Negatives Outweigh the Positives with Readiris Corporate 12

Readiris Corporate 12, retailing at $399, is an application that changes documents containing scanned images into standard file formats, with the least hassle, and the least options, of any Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, program.  In situations where you don’t have the time you need to correct text within your OCR software, and just want… Continue reading Negatives Outweigh the Positives with Readiris Corporate 12

Making Movies with Pinnacle Studio 14 Ultimate

Pinnacle Studio 14 Ultimate, retailing at $99.99, is the most recent version of the company owned by Avid’s considerable line of software for content creation for video and audio PC partisans.  Pinnacle has always been steadfastly devoted to entry level consumers, and excludes the advanced mechanic editing characteristics of the luxury directed computer hardware optimizations… Continue reading Making Movies with Pinnacle Studio 14 Ultimate