Software

Make your own posters with ProPoster software

We reviewed the PostersPrinting service a while back which will turn your photos into posters.  Here’s a take on that idea: DIY software, ProPoster, that lets you print the poster components yourself, glue not included! Before you jump on the ProPoster idea thinking it’s cheaper, keep in mind that this is more suited for when [...]

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App Inventor for Android lets you build apps without programming

Here is where a little Google magic may make Apple’s iPhone/iPad division worry a bit, if not a lot. Google Labs is rolling out a new tool called App Inventor, which is an Android app development tool that does not require any coding. Let me say that again – you can build applicaitons for your [...]

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AmpliTube iRig for iPhone is a full Guitar Amp & Effects Rig

Computers have been helping musicians for decades now, particularly as once very expensive studio equipment have been turned into software for convenient and easy home use. If you’ve been playing guitar for a while, you might remember the myriad of effects boxes you needed to tune your guitar sound. Well, software (like AmpliTube) has helped [...]

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DVD-Ranger Backs Up Your DVDs, Convert to BluRay & More

Now that you’ve got all of your VHS tapes either copied to your computer or onto DVD, it’s time to back all of those DVDs up. DVD Ranger copies your DVDs to your computer; your mobile device, be it iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune and more; or over to Blu-Ray disc. You can opt to squeeze [...]

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Kindle’s latest software update adds Twitter, sharper fonts, more

Amazon recently updated Kindle‘s software to version 2.5. It adds a number of features such as: Social networking sharing of book passages via Facebook or Twitter Pan and zoom of PDF docs Organization of your books into ‘collections’ New larger and sharper fonts You can get the update from Amazon. via Wired

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A Cool Data Visualization Tool

I was searching for stats on web browser market share and came across this very cool visualization of the data created by Axiis, which is an open source data visualization framework. Unfortunately, the data is only current up to Aug 2009, but you should still hit the link and mouseover to see how it works [...]

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Laplink’s PCmover migrates your Windows data & settings from 1 PC to another

PCmover by Laplink is a software migration utility that helps you move your programs, files and settings from your old PC to your new PC, and your old PC can be a WinXP box and your new PC can be a Windows 7 machine. By now if you’re in the market for a new Windows [...]

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Sleep Cycle iPhone app tracks your sleep patterns

Remember the Sleeptracker which tracks your sleep patterns based on your movement through the night? Well, they’ve got some competition in the form on an iPhone app called Sleep Cycle. It uses the iPhone’s built-in gryoscope in a similar manner to the Sleeptracker. However, we’re doubtful of its accuracy as compared to the Sleeptracker because [...]

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7 Free Software Apps to Protect your Laptop

One of our great readers sent in this set of 7 pieces of free software that you can, and in most cases should, use to protect your PC laptop. Most of these also apply to your desktop as well. I happen to use most of these and recommend them as well. At a minimum, you [...]

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FOTOBOX Plus automagically creates slideshows from your digital photos

Plug your SD memory card with digital photographs into Honestech’s FOTOBOX, plug the FOTOBOX in your PC and the FOTOBOX application runs you through a quick wizard and quickly creates a slideshow complete with effects. You can transfer the finished product to DVD, YouTube, your iPod or save on your computer. That’s it! Honestech makes [...]

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