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Stream all your music to wherever you are…

Disappointed at the 8Gb storage on your iPhone. Left that killer track on your home computer when it would be perfect for this moment? Simplify Media lets you stream audio from one computer to another… Earbud image by Williamli1983

Guitar-related shenanigans

We take a look at some guitar tools: two ways to get music to play, and a handy toolkit on the iPhone.

Blogging on the move :: Wordpress for iPhone

The Wordpress application for iPhone is out, promising to make mobile blogging that much easier. We take a brief look at the application to see whether it does what it says on the tin.

Creating mindmaps with Mindnode

We take a look at Mindnode in our final post on mindmapping. This post also contains the conclusion of the mindmapping series.

Creating mindmaps with Freemind

Chris takes a look at the first of two pieces of software designed to make mindmapping easy: Freemind.

No Internet after Update?

Last evening I lost internet connectivity on my work computer and I just put it down to a local problem, thinking it would probably be sorted out in the morning.
My desktop PC at home did a Windows update before closing down. This morning, lo and behold, no internet connection. I realised that it must be [...]

Take your software with you: Portable Apps

What do you do if you want to use an application while you’re away from home, and find that the PC you’ve borrowed doesn’t have what you want? Portable applications!!

Firefox Add-ons 3

The add-ons for Firefox make the whole experience of browsing the web so much easier. Here are three more of my essential add-ons - which all work with Firefox 3:
Dictionary - One of the first add-ons you need, although I’ve not previously mentioned it, is a dictionary to check your spelling. Here is the link [...]

Share Your Desktop

Following a Twitter conversation with Thomas (headphonaught) we decided to show our desktops to the world! Here’s my current desktop on my home PC. You will also see icons of some of my favourite programs. There are a number of PortableApps - I have a 4GB partition on my hard drive reserved for PortableApps which [...]

Rasterbating can send you blind

I hate paying for posters… and I can never get the image I want. It would be much better to be able to print my own, but my little A4 printer isn’t quite up to the job!
…until now! Enter, stage left, Rasterbator!
Rasterbator takes any image, from the web or uploaded from your computer, and converts [...]