Most of you are already aware that Apple is naming their operating systems after places throughout California of late. It started with mavericks–a popular big wave surfing destination–and is now heading back on land to...
If you are positioned in front of your Mac machine and wish to make a call hands free via your iPhone on the Mac, you can now do that. It works by sending the sound through the Mac speakers, like your Bluetooth setup in the car us...
Many people who have the extra spare cash choose to splurge on a Mac because they are reportedly better. Whether or not you believe Mac is winning the battle against PC or not, Apple are nice enough to include an option that let&#...
If you are using one of the latest smartphones from Google, or indeed one of the other OEM flagships in recent times, you might be aware of the new Android 5.1 update that’s the successor to the original 5.0 Lollipop. Androi...
For those people using UNIX-styled operating systems such as OS X, there’s a special ‘root’ user account which people can access to perform on certain, incredibly fragile root tasks. because of the importance of ...
If you rotated a camera whilst filming, you can rotate the video to match the angle you filmed it at. VLC media player includes geometry options with which you can rotate videos with. If you don’t already have the software, ...
Have you ever thought of using your Android smartphone or tablet as a wireless keyboard and computer mouse? Yes, that’s right. You can use it instead of your standard mouse and trackpad. As a matter of fact, it’s not that difficul...
If you’ve found a video with a great background soundtrack, you can extract that into a separate audio file with a few software packages. Among them is the freeware video editor Avidemux. With that you can save video audio a...
OpenOffice is a freeware office software suite. Among its software packages are a word processor, spreadsheet, database and presentation application. The suite’s presentation application is Presentation, and that’s the...
One of the ways web browsers make money is by selling their default search engine spot (aka the search engine a web browser is configured to use out-of-the-box) to the highest bidder. For the longest time, that highest bidder was ...
You can set up video clip presentations for your photos with a variety of software packages. They are similar to slideshows, except that you can play back the videos with media players. The freeware Google Picasa 3.9, compatible w...
Website pages include lots of things that you could add to your desktop as widgets. For example, their search boxes would be great addition to any desktop. With the Snippage Adobe AIR desktop app you can add portions of a website ...
Polaroids are instant cameras that capture photos with borders around them. To add a polaroid effect to your photos, add Poladriod to Windows or Mac OS X. That’s a software package that converts your photos to polaroid pictu...
To add background themes to text documents, you’ll need a text editor that has theme options. Forget about MS Word, and almost any other alternative package, and add Qute to your desktop or laptop. Qute is a freeware word pr...
Have you ever noticed your computer running a little slower than usual? Or perhaps you have been looking through your files or programs and noticed some objects that you can’t remember downloading or using. You wonder whether th...
