Archive for July, 2009

Multi Platform Media Collection Manager for Linux, Windows and Mac

When anyone becomes a collector of any sort  it soon becomes clear that as your library increases so does the headache of maintaining a catalog. Movies are no different, usually no ones cares much about keeping a catalog that is, until they buy the same movie twice. Its then that it becomes clear that an [...]

Get Notified When a Website Goes Down

For someone like me who runs tens of blogs really have to monitor  their uptime at any cost. Having your favorite site go down is a really annoying experience , you keep checking back continuously to see if its back up and if the site owners haven’t given any notification of the down time then [...]

An Elegant Little Word Processor Exclusively for the Mac

When writing posts for my blogs I take maximum information from at least 3 or 4 well known resources and of course the official website or a press release.  When it comes to editing my text on Wordpad I feel like Mac users have all the luck, Because while I’m using Word processor interface on [...]

Translate Your Website Into Over 40 languages

Our sister blog have discovered a new tool called ConveyThis, that combines online translators from Google and Babelfish into one button.  After answering a few questions, code is created that allows you to translate your website into over 40 languages:

After registering you will also have access to stats showing how many times your website was [...]

Ultimate Guide To Windows 7 Media Center Codecs

My mate Everton has published a very comprehensive guide to setting up codecs for Windows 7, which covers how to play mkv, flac, h.264 and other files easily on Windows 7, without needing a quad core PC.  The guide will work on any PC that has been built in the last 4-5 years.

Windows 7 is [...]

Folx Free File Downloader for Mac for Maximum Download Speed

Mac users rejoice! Now you too can enjoy multi mega/gigabyte fun thanks to a free file downloader. Folx is a feature rich file downloader that supports auto-resuming (in case you get disconnected from the net) and guarantees the maximum download speed possible thanks to the apps ability to create multi-thread download tasks.
Its many options also [...]

Expand the Function of Drag and Drop with QuickDrag

Dragging and dropping a file onto an IM chat window or into a folder is about the most common and natural thing to do with your mouse. However you have to wonder why no one built upon that knowledge. If it’s like second nature why is it ignored apart from the 2 functions mentioned above.
Quickdrag [...]

How to play Flv format files in Windows Media Player

In this day and age, the most common software found on any Windows PC will most probably be doing double duties by playing host to a myriad of plugins. However this is one area where Microsoft’s Windows Media Player sorely lacks, which is surprising since its one of the most widely used media player software [...]

Use NetDrive To Map FTP Servers To Windows Drives

Although there are some great FTP clients out there, they can still be a bit fiddly to use.  If you are uncomfortable using FTP then maybe NetDrive is for you.  This free client (for home use) allows you to map FTP servers to Windows drives, so you don’t have to login everytime to your FTP [...]

Find Missing Codecs With CodecInstaller

Playing video content on Windows still isn’t as easy as it should be, particularly if you’ve downloaded videos from bittorrent or usenet.   Trying to find the correct codec to play video files can be difficult, because most users typically don’t know where to start, and they end up downloading the wrong files.  This can [...]