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Cranky Geeks is a technology-related Internet show produced by Ziff Davis Media centered on discussion of technology topics of the week. It is hosted by industry pundit John C. Dvorak. Editor of GigaOM Sebastian Rupley is introduced as “co-crank”, and serves as both a weekly panelist and editor selecting the week’s topics. Each week two guest panelists, usually selected from a pool of technology journalists and entrepreneurs, join Dvorak and Rupley. Read the rest of this entry »

But there’s good news

But unlike people you can actually turn back the aging process and bring your beloved PC back to life. All it takes is a couple of easy to follow tips to ignite your PC’s performance to full speed again.

Just follow these easy to follow steps: Read the rest of this entry »

Xara Web Designer is unlike any Web page editor that you will have seen before; an easy to use template based Web page creation tool that gives you total page design freedom, absolutely no HTML or Javascript skills required. Simply choose one of the professionally designed page templates, customize it as required with easy drag and drop editing (text, graphics, photos, widgets, animations) and one-click theme color change, and upload to your site.

Flash Video Studio is an easy and powerful tool to convert most video files into Macromedia Flash SWF and FLV. It supports the following video formats: AVI, DIVX, MPG, WMV, ASF, and Quicktime MOV. Support the new AVC/H264 Video format. Flash 8 alpha is also supported. You can add watermarks using text, static image, animated GIF, or transparent image (PNG). Trim video, apply effects (emboss, sepia, motion blur), mix a secondary audio (WAV, MP3, WMA), adjust compression setting, frame rate, video size, video quality. You can customize the navigation control by turning on/off a specific button or changing its color settings to suit your style. Add chapter list from various part of your video. Add multilingual subtitle. Publish multiple video file into one control with a playlist. Add event to synchronize animation with your video. Flash Video Studio can show the estimated bandwidth and file size in real time which enables you to adjust the quality settings easily. Supports batch processing and also automatic FTP upload. Crop, rotate video, and save JPEG thumbnail from any frame within video file.Version 3.0 adds support for all flash video formats and AVC/H264/MPEG4 video format

Easily create DVDs and CDs. Quick-erase or fully erase any type of RW disc. After writing, you can verify the disc to ensure data integrity. Protect your investment by making backup copies of CDs and DVDs. Copy video DVDs and data DVDs and audio or data CDs using a simple wizard interface. Create DVDs and CDs using any type of media, including mini-DVDs and business card CDs. There are no restrictions. Make industry-standard ISO image files. Use image files to create exact duplicates of the disc later. You can also burn downloaded images to disc. Advanced hyperthreading technology lets you continue to work on other tasks while your DVD is burned in the background.

MONyog MySQL Monitor and Advisor is a MySQL DBA in a box that helps MySQL DBAs manage more MySQL servers, tune their current MySQL servers and find and fix problems with their MySQL database applications before they can become serious problems or costly outages. MONyog proactively monitors enterprise database environments and provides expert advice on how to tighten security, optimize performance and reduce downtime.

EZ Backup Windows Mail Premium makes it easy to backup your Windows Mail contacts and mail to any local or network drive and even to CD/DVD. The scheduling feature can provide a completely automated backup solution and 128 bit encryption is available to secure the backup archive.

Why Vista is not the hell you have heard about.
If you read some forums or blogs these days, you’d think that Vista crashes every 5 minutes, will eat your programs and your files, and when the evil Microsoft monster is all done with that, it will end its spree of destruction by quite possibly eating your children.

Just so we are all clear here, Vista does NOT suck. Not even close. What you usually see online are mostly a bunch of undereducated Mac and Linux fanboys who are going to whine about anything Microsoft does. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s easy to be intimidated by all the laptop models on the market today. There are literally dozens and dozens in every price range.
The key to finding the right one for you is to step back and consider exactly how you plan to use your laptop. When you define what you need before you go shopping, buying the right machine becomes much easier. Read the rest of this entry »