Monthly archive for June 2008

Zune accessories - CNET Reviews

Saturday, den 28. June 2008

 

Living in a non-iPod world isn’t easy. Sure, there’s a lot to love about Microsoft’s line of Zune MP3 players, but when it comes to shopping for accessories, you start feeling like the only vegetarian at the steakhouse. Don’t fret, brave Zune-ster, there are plenty of worthy accessories made for the Zune. In fact, [...]

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Dashwire 2.0 improves phone-management software | SO COOL…….. Try it NOW

Wednesday, den 25. June 2008

 

Dashwire (review), a dashboard for synchronizing and managing the contents of your mobile phone online, has let loose with Dashwire 2.0 for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. Tuesday’s release enriches the syncing client application with photos and with Facebook and Twitter updates.

Sharing media and status messages makes Dashwire way more fun.
The previous version of the [...]

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bigBrains is Twittering

Monday, den 23. June 2008

Follow me and I will follow you.  Read a tweet, and download a Twitteroo. 
If you dont know what I am talking about, your not alone.  Twitter is a free social networking site.  It is what they are calling “micro-blogging”.  This service allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) [...]

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Creative Docs .NET – A Free Alternative to Adobe Illustrator!

Wednesday, den 18. June 2008

 
If you’ve ever needed to create vector graphics, but your pocketbook came up a little short on the cash needed to purchase Adobe Illustrator, you now have another alternative: Creative Docs .NET. This completely free tool (for personal use) offers a lot of features that will help you make professional documents like manuals, [...]

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Dia - GNOME Live! – a Free Visio Competitor

Monday, den 16. June 2008

Windows/Linux only: Open-source application Dia is a robust flowchart and diagram tool. Like a free version of Microsoft Visio, Dia provides you with all the tools you need to create anything from a simple flowchart to a powerful and complex diagram, and files can be saved in many formats, including a [...]

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SideShow for Windows Mobile Beta

Monday, den 16. June 2008

 
Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Developers Preview is software that runs on your Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device that lets you use your phone as a Bluetooth SideShow-compatible device. With SideShow, you can access info on your PC and control some of your computer’s functions. You can check your email or calendar, run a [...]

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Free Zune Video Converter 1.0 – Not only free, but one of the best

Wednesday, den 11. June 2008

I have tried about a dozen different converters for Zune, some free, some hack, and some commercial products. Free Zune Video Converter is simple and it works.  You end up with a perfectly formatted little video for the Zune, with the minimum number of steps. Some of the Codec geeks out there may like [...]

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Bach: Zune+Phone=Nope [But ZuneTouch=Yes!]

Wednesday, den 11. June 2008

 
Today, Robbie Bach, Microsoft’s president for entertainment and devices, renewed the news that Microsoft will not be making a ZunePhone.  "“We don’t make phones ourselves. We don’t have any plans to make phones ourselves.” He said.  This really isn’t something we haven’t heard before.
Further, Bach continued the discussion and confirmed rumors that Zune will be [...]

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Print to PDF for free with doPDF

Sunday, den 8. June 2008

 
doPDF is a fairly simple program. Even though it’s utterly bereft of features beyond its main function–to let users create PDF documents from within any program using the native Print option–it’s still worthwhile because it does the basics very well.

Along with whatever printer you’ve got hooked up that shows up in the Print dialog [...]

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Live-streaming service Qik comes to Windows Mobile

Friday, den 6. June 2008

 
Qik, the mobile phone-based video-streaming service favored by blogger Robert Scoble, is coming to the Windows Mobile platform.
Previously only available for Nokia phones like the horrendously overpriced N95 ($500 unlocked), the service will soon roll out for the millions of Windows smartphones now on the market, like the Samsung Blackjack (free with activation) according [...]

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Keyboard Shortcuts: Open a Command Prompt Anywhere with Vista

Wednesday, den 4. June 2008

 
open-command-window-here.pngThe How-To Geek technology weblog highlights an incredibly handy Windows Vista feature that opens a command prompt in any system path through a simple shortcut: Shift-Right-click. Let’s say, for example, that you’re browsing a folder deep in the bowels of your hard drive, and you want to work with files in that folder from [...]

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Get Your Hands on the New Live Writer

Wednesday, den 4. June 2008

 

Windows Live Writer has got to be, hands down, one of the most popular tools out of the whole Windows Live lineup. I know many a blogger (myself included) who can’t live without it. That’s why the recent release of the Windows Live Writer Tech Preview has everyone talking. The Windows Live Writer Tech Preview [...]

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Put Your Start Menu On Steroids with "Vista’s Start Menu"

Tuesday, den 3. June 2008

Vista Start Menu changes the look and enhances the usefulness of Vista’s main menu.
Power Downloader spends a lot of his time looking at ways to improve Windows Vista. He still doesn’t use it for his primary computer, but there are some cases where it’s clearly better than Windows XP. One of them, however, is not [...]

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ZuneTV | Load up the Zune

Monday, den 2. June 2008

 
Zune fansite ZuneBoards has recently launched a YouTube-like site for converting and sharing Zune clips with the community. The site is called ZuneTV. Here, users can upload videos, which are automatically converted into the Zune-compatible .wmv format. Those clips are then made available for download by any member. Like any social video sharing site, there [...]

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