Social Media for ESL Students: Anything Lost in Translation?

Although a powerful online tool, social media is only really best understood by native English speakers. When it comes to individuals that have learned English as a second language, helping them comprehend everything surrounding social media may be surprisingly difficult- due to cultural differences as well as language/slang differences. Media psychology is one of the… Continue reading Social Media for ESL Students: Anything Lost in Translation?

O2 and Virgin Media the Big Winners at Broadband Awards

O2 and Virgin Media took two awards each of the seven on offer in the first Broadbandgenie.co.uk Home Broadband Awards, announced in February. O2 was awarded Best Broadband Provider 2011, as well as the Best Broadband Support Award. Both awards used independent data provided by OnePoll, which surveyed more than 3,000 customers across all of… Continue reading O2 and Virgin Media the Big Winners at Broadband Awards

Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive

At the rate new network-attached storage devices, or NAS, are being released in the market, it would come as no surprise if consumers are not able to easily determine which one offers the best bang for the buck. Most recent offerings would seem like minor departures from previous versions, something that is never popular with… Continue reading Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive

HP Media Vault mv2120

Priced at a cent below 300 dollars, the HP Media Vault mv2120 is an all-around solution to NAS needs, with its versatile storage, backup functionality and file-sharing capabilities for a PC network. It looks like its stable mate the HP MediaSmart Server, only smaller, and priced lower with a Linux OS as opposed to the… Continue reading HP Media Vault mv2120

HP MediaSmart Server EX495

Networks looking for a more practical way of storing user data can turn to NAS devices to ease up the loads of their oft overworked hard drives. Home networks in particular can use these gadgets for an all-in-one storage solution that is to set up and manage. Current releases in the market even provide added… Continue reading HP MediaSmart Server EX495

HelloTXT’s Effort to Streamline Social Media Posting

HelloTXT may sound quite new to many. It is an app that updates all your social networks from one application. It is quite mind blowing how this would work, but, it is a worldwide app that cuts across all iOS tools. They are over fifty social networks at HelloTXT. This includes the popularly known facebook… Continue reading HelloTXT’s Effort to Streamline Social Media Posting

DIY Personal Media Center

Are you dreaming of a media center that is all in one? Wake up as your dream is now a reality with your very own self built Media center, you can check weather, look at photos, watch movies or hear music with just your computer and a couple of programs. Wait you haven’t gotten all… Continue reading DIY Personal Media Center

GetGlue: Social Networking and Media Addicts

When you stample into GetGlue the first thing that would come into many peoples mind would be; is this yet another social network? Many people are not remotely keen on engaging themselves in another social network app from their iphones. Surprisingly enough, many have discovered that GetGlue has so much more to offer. They have… Continue reading GetGlue: Social Networking and Media Addicts

Pocket PC 2003

This version of the Pocket PC is just an upgrade from the previous version more or less, what made the real difference are some minor changes. In the early 2000’s Microsoft no longer used the name Pocket PC, though its predecessors awaited this update. With Pocket PC 2003, Microsoft just provided little real changes very… Continue reading Pocket PC 2003

Top 5 Media Players for Android

Android has always been lacking in the multimedia department at the beginning, but with time, things have changed and everything has become much better. Nowadays, users have access to dozens of great multimedia player for all their music and videos, and almost every single file format out there can be played back with ease on… Continue reading Top 5 Media Players for Android