When planning and setting up a new website, find a reliable web hosting provider is one of the areas that takes most of the time. Taking the time to find the right hosting provider is vital as it can make the difference between website’s success or failure. One of the most common results in selecting [read more...]

The latest version, version 3.2, of the “free and open productivity suite”, OpenOffice has been released. A slew of enhancements, optimisations, and new features have made it into this latest release of OpenOffice including the following key features. Quicker startup time (the site is saying Calc and Writer start up 46% faster than version 3.0) [read more...]

The aim of Freecorder is simply to allow you to download, record and convert audio from Internet sources – but it can also pretty much handle any sound you can hear through your PC and can also handle web videos, saving the audio it records into MP3 format. Freecorder, currently up to version 4, is [read more...]

Do you study the dictionary night and day just to prove to all your fellow geeks that you are indeed their fearless leader? Do you have a need to drastically improve your vocabulary? Are you in search of a more adult cousin to the childhood favourite where you got to hang someone if you did [read more...]

To say social websites, such as Twitter and Friendfeed, were popular at the moment would be something of an understatement. If, like me, you have accounts on a number of different services you may find maintaining them tricky. Some people also manage to have more than one account with Twitter, which can make things even [read more...]

Technology is a funny thing. Take the computer desktop for example. Most people have got their desktop set up exactly as they want it to be. They know where everything is as well. But this is no good if you are on the road and you have your laptop with you. Leaving something you really [read more...]

Being able to create detailed graphics, on a budget, on your computer is not always easy; whilst many graphics programs are available and many are easy to use, they can often lack functionality or other essential capabilities. Some designers need to be able to create as freely on their computer screen as they could with [read more...]

I have been looking for a utility recently that would let me check my ever increasing collection of USB flash drives. Managing flash devices is a job in itself with small collections of data on these devices replacing the floppy disks and CD-R of old. The speed of Flash drives can vary greatly so it [read more...]