OpenOffice applications have a variety of options. Its Drawing toolbar includes options that you can add shapes to documents with. In addition, you can also add 3D effects to those shapes. Open a OpenOffice application such as Wri...
VLC Media Player is one that VideoLAN has recently updated with version 2.2, which you can add to Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms from here. Version 2.2. is a notable enhancement that includes new resume playback video optio...
If you’ve read the previous post, then you’re already aware that Facebook has officially released a web version of its Messenger app for mobile devices. The thing is you need to go to the official Messenger link just so you could ...
Opera Mail was once a part of the Opera browser, but has been removed from it. Now Opera Mail is available as a desktop email client that you can add to Windows, Linux or Mac OS. With Opera Mail you can open your email from Gmail,...
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...
