Archive for November, 2008

Crystal Disk Info is a hard drive utility for Windows that displays a variety of information about a hard disk drive. “Hard Drive Diagnostic Tool Crystal Disk Info” by Martin of gHacks.net shows you the various bits you can check out in order to assess the health of your disk. The hard drive diagnostic tool can [...]

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“Sync multiple iTunes music libraries with one iPhone” by mrmobius of Mac OS X Hints discusses the steps necessary to synchronize songs from multiple iTunes libraries to one iPhone. Tip author mrmobius describes how he puts files from two different libraries on his iPhone. He keeps his MP3 library separate from his collection of high quality [...]

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Wired reports that Apple has caved to Hollywood and added restrictive copy protection to MacBooks. The DRM scheme prevents MacBook owners from watching copyrighted content when the computer is connected to a display that is not “authorized”. Movie studios are scared stiff of allowing anyone to watch video on a device that could used to make [...]

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If you buy used digital photography gear or are dealing with certain eBay sellers, you should be on the lookout for fake merchandise. “Compact Flash Memory cards – is yours a fake?” by Camera Dojo goes into great detail as to how you can determine whether a card is genuine. The first fake CF card I [...]

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FotoTimer is an iPhone application that adds a self-timer to the iPhone’s built-in camera. Like the self-timer on your digital camera, FotoTimer gives your iPhone the ability to set a timer to delay your photo from being taken until you are ready (2, 5, 10 or 20 seconds). Countdown sounds alert you to when the photo [...]

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I have been using the Bose around-ear headphones for close to a year, and have been with both their sound quality and comfort. Anyone in the market for speakers or headphones usually comes across the Bose® line, so if you are considering a purchase such as this read on for Of Zen and Computing’s impressions [...]

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Facebook Video is a Mozilla Firefox add-on that allows Facebook members to download videos posted by their friends. The social networking site Facebook allows members to post videos but does not provide a method to download them — the Facebook Video add-on adds that capability. To download videos with Facebook Video, install the add-on and restart [...]

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“How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations” covers preparing your video-enhanced presentation for a few different scenarios: Streaming YouTube videos in your PowerPoint presentation when an Internet connection is available. Embedding YouTube videos in a PowerPoint presentation without an Internet connection. Streaming YouTube videos in your presentation over an Internet connect is very simple — the YouTube [...]

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Trixie is an add-on for Microsoft Internet Explorer that lets you run (some) Greasemonkey scripts with IE. The official site says: Trixie is to Internet Explorer as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. It lets you remix the Web via scripts. You may do this to either make it more readable, fix bugs or to even [...]

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“How to turn your Nokia N95 into a pedometer” is a step-by-step tutorial for installing, configuring, and using the N95 Accelerometer Plugin. Getting going with the N95 Step Counter requires you install and configure some simple software on your phone. Once you have the Step Counter plug-in installed, you can configure it to run “in the [...]

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