Archive for December, 2007
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Earlier today it became official - the Canadian iTunes Store will now sell TV shows. What seemed to get missed in this announcement was another 'upgrade' for Canadians - DRM free iTunes Plus tracks are finally available as well.
Totally unrelated note, you might have noticed the decrease in number ...
Posted in iPod/iPhone | Comments Off
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Boing Boing has a great article that every Canadian needs to read. It's brief, to the point, and provides some very easy steps for us to stop some truly awful legislation.
Posted in Links, Other | No Comments »
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
You can open, edit and save Office 2007 files using an older version of Office (2K/XP/2003) if you download and install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. So if you've been sent a file created with Word, Excel, or PowerPoint 2007 - and you don't have MS Office 2007, you'll still ...
Posted in Office, Windows | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
From their product home page -
TinyAlarm is a tiny alarm clock for your menu bar. It will play your chosen sound at some time in the near future. All of the configuration is done using the status menu item. Clicking around should reveal just about everything there is to ...
Posted in Mac | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
This tutorial could also be called "how to use your iPhone or iPod Touch to control your Mac" - because the featured (open source) software actually allows you to do both. Continue reading to be taken step by step through installing, setting up and accessing iPhone Remote on your Mac. ...
Posted in Mac, iPod/iPhone | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Using ThumbsUp you can easily drag-and-drop batches of images to create thumbnails. It supports any and all image formats supported by Mac OS X and QuickTime (including PDF documents).
Posted in Mac, Web Design & Dev | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Yesterday one of my roommates (Chris) finally got to meet one of his shero's - Tori Amos. The pictures turned out great, but one of them came with the dreaded "red-eye". This tutorial will walk you through the steps to remove red eye from your digital photos using the GIMP ...
Posted in Other | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
This brief tutorial will walk you through the steps required to access (and control) uTorrent from your mobile device (phone, PDA, wi-fi mp3 player etc).
Posted in Bittorrent, Windows Mobile, Wireless | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Using CoolMon 2 you can create a 'window' or series of windows on your desktop that will display system stats such as CPU, RAM and page file usage, hard drive usage, MotherBoard Monitor temperatures, fan speeds, various network stats and much, much more. This overview will introduce you to CoolMon ...
Posted in Windows | 6 Comments »
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to install and set up the iPhone (and iPod Touch) Web UI for uTorrent. This version of the uTorrent Web UI was created specifically for the iPhone/iPod Touch and allows you to access your uTorrent client remotely to pause or add ...
Posted in Bittorrent, iPod/iPhone | 2 Comments »
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
This tutorial will guide you through setting up uTorrents Web UI (User Interface). The Web UI allows you to remotely connect to the computer running uTorrent, through a web browser, and control all of your torrents.
Posted in Bittorrent, Windows | 3 Comments »
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
This tutorial will walk you through each of the steps in setting up and using uTorrent to download files using bittorrent. uTorrent is a free (and very feature-rich) bittorrent client for Windows 98/ME, NT/2000, XP, 2003, and Vista.
Posted in Bittorrent, Windows | 7 Comments »
Saturday, December 1st, 2007
This tutorial will guide you through the steps to converting an existing video file to a .wmv (Windows Media Video) to play on your Windows Mobile device.
Posted in Windows, Windows Mobile | 8 Comments »