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Screencast software lets you record what you do on the computer visually so you can play it back later. It can be used for making tutorials and other instructional material, either for yourself, or someone else (your family, a class, etc). TechSmith, the makers of SnagIt (the screen capture utility) have a special on their …
Last week I received a press release from my contact at Paragon Software (the makers of Hard Disk Manager). They have released a new product, NTFS for Mac OS X: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS breaks the border between Windows and Mac OS, solving an important communication problem in their file systems From now on …
I got a press release the other day about Automatic Photo Sorter 1.0, software from Styopkin Software that scans for photos and uses the EXIF information to store the pictures in directories based on the date they were taken. Automatic Photo Sorter 1.0 will benefit most any digital photo enthusiast, who takes lots of photos …
This is a neat little tool I found recently that allows you to capture a screenshot (of a region, the desktop, or a window) and then use OCR (optical character recognition) to “extract” the text. JOCR enables you to capture the image on the screen and convert the captured image to text. It is useful …
I haven’t tried this myself, but I recently heard about System Information for Windows. It is software that will take an inventory of the hardware and software on your computer, along with a lot of other useful information. The site describes it this way: SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers …
One of the big things in the IT industry these days is virtualization. In general terms, this is using an existing computer to run multiple operating systems at the same time. On my computer I can install special software, and then run Windows, Linux, and sometimes even MacOS in a “window”. This “window” let’s you …
Internet Explorer and Firefox both come with integrated RSS feed readers. These are both pretty basic, but give you quick access to your feeds. I think I’ve mentioned in the past that I use BlogBridge. This allows you to have a profile of feeds that can be loaded on any computer that has BlogBridge installed. …
Back in the day, Windows came with a file manager that seemed to have more features than the current Windows Explorer. You can view 2 different drives or folders at a time, making it very easy to copy files between locations. There are many 3rd party file managers out there, and one I heard of …
Regular subscriber Pat send me in a link to Nexus Radio and said: Cool free internet radio program, can also record songs to play on your mp3 player! The software is rated highly at Download.com. The software is by Egisca, and their site describes it this way: Nexus Radio is a free full featured radio …
I haven’t tried this myself, but Microsoft has a web site that lets you “test” Windows Vista: The Windows Vista Test Drive allows you to try (or “test drive”) this latest operating system from Microsoft without having to install it on your PC. By simply logging onto our test drive environment using your web browser, …