Archive for the ‘Computer Gadgets’ Category
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 |
Windows 7 is the latest operating system from Microsoft, but many of you still use Windows Vista and in this article we are going to present a few gadgets you can use with your operating system to make the hours you spend in front of the computer more fun.
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The first Vista gadget we are going to present has a lot of great reviews online and is called – Gadget MSN Video. This application display videos from Soapbox and also MSN Video. You have the possibility to display the videos you are watching by bookmarks, rates and also by category. You can choose from BBC, music, car, MTV, movies and lot more categories. The gadget is available across 30 countries, so before you download it make you that your country is in the list.
If you are an online games fun, you can download the next cool
Vista gadget – Too Games Gadget. The name of the application say’s it all, because the gadget gives you the possibility to play 600 free games and you can access them directly from your windows sidebar. This is a useful gadget if you ever get bored when you work, at home or at the office.
The Weather Show is another great Vista gadget – it displays the weather forecast from many cities all over the world. You will see the weather forecast for four days and the application can also display a fly-out extra forecast for several cities.
The Media Player, as the name implies is a media player application that can be used to play radio, music or movies. The gadget comes with 4 skins and it is very easy to use, because it has all the usual functions of a media player.
Messenger Gadget is a small application that allows you to interact with the contact and friends you have on Windows Live Messenger. You can customize the application, because you can change different settings like colors, fonts etc. You can see change your status, you can see the status of your friends and the most important thing is that you can start chat sessions.
The Mini Outlook Inbox allows you to see and read the e-mails you receive from your desktop sidebar. You don’t need to have the Outlook open for this application to work and you can also create e-mails, delete them, reply or forward e-mails.
If you have a Gmail account you can use the Gmail Counter gadget to see the number of new e-mails you have on your e-mail account. This gadget doesn’t display the content of the e-mail, so you have to sign in into your e-mail account to read them.
TopProcess is a simple Vista application that shows you the processes on your personal computer that are consuming most of your CPU. A useful gadget if you want to see why your computer is running slower than it used to run.
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 |
Transform XP into Vista gadget helps you transform the graphical interface of your XP operating system to Windows Vista. This application is very easy to use and to install and the best part is the fact that it is free to download. The gadget contains a desktop which has the look of Vista and other Yahoo widgets and application you will find on Windows Vista Star Menu.
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The Yahoo widgets are a great and useful collection of desktop assistants. For example, you will find mini games and also more serious applications like PC temperature.
Desktop Calendar XP is the next cool
gadget for your Windows
XP. This application gives you the possibility to customize the boring calendar you have on your desktop. The interface of the application is very easy to use and it covers 200 hundred years. Other features of this
XP gadget include: alarm, date calculator, time changer, system date, wallpaper manager, MP3 player and real-time desktop clock.
And this is not all because this application has a lot more to offer. The calendar comes with 12 beautiful images and the application automatically changes the images. You can also download other images from the application’s website. The alarm of the gadget is customizable and it also comes with a talking buddy.
Windows 7 Easy Transfer is a great and useful gadget for Windows XP. If you are using Windows XP on an old computer and you want to install the new Windows 7 on the brand new computer, you will need a tool that will help you transfer all the data from Windows XP to Windows 7 and this is the moment when Windows 7 Easy Transfer comes in handy. This is a step-by-step wizard that will help you move all the videos, music files, photos and other documents on your new computer.
The application is very easy to install and to use, all you have to do is to follow the instructions on the screen. The application also gives you the possibility to password the most important files for extra security and gives you three choices on the transfer method. The first one is by using an USB flash or an external hard drive, the second one is by using the network connection and the third one is through cable. The application can be downloaded for free.
TvAnts is a free application that gives you the possibility to watch TV channels from around the world on your personal computer. The installation of this application is very simple, all you have to do is to click Next and OK a few times and that is all. The application will display the channels in a simple window and if you want to see more channels all you have to do is to click Renew.
You will find many Japanese channels in the list, but also private and public channels. The image quality is not perfect, but it is good and you can choose from hundreds of channels including music channels, new, fashion and movie channels. This gadget works with Vista and XP, but is doesn’t work with Windows 7 and it is free to download.
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Friday, March 19th, 2010 |
The most popular operating system in the world, which is used by millions of people is the Windows, produced by the company Microsoft. It has many versions such as the Windows 98, Windows Millenium, Windows XP, Windows Vista and the newest of all: the Windows 7. With each of these versions Microsoft had improved the operating system, bringing new features and technologies. One of the innovations brought by Windows Vista compared to the Windows XP was the “Windows sidebar gadgets” application.
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This is a cool software that offers a sidebar on your desktop in which you can place all sorts of gadgets. These gadgets are simple applications that usually have just a single purpose and which can let you see all sorts of things – such as the time, the calendar, the CPU usage, the weather and so on. So today we’ll discuss about some of these gadgets
And if you are not happy with the default sidebar that you have in your Windows Vista, you can download the software called “Vista sidebar 3.1.0”. This application is using 50% less RAM memory from your computer compared to the original version, so it works much faster. It is also compatible with both Windows Vista and XP. It has all sorts of cool gadgets for you, and here are some of the key features of this software:
· Installer
· Gadget saves settings
· RSS Gadget
· Torrent search Gadget
· Google search Gadget
· Progress Dialogs
· More sidebar skins
· System Uptime Gadget
· Windows Media Player Gadget
· Clock Gadgets
· Clock adjustable skins Wi Fi internet status Gadget
· Recycle bin Gadget
· Picture slider Gadget
· Update features
· Hard disk Status reader Gadget
· CPU and RAM reader Gadget
· Internet Traffic status Gadget
· Calendar Gadget
· Weather Gadget
And now let’s discuss about some other gadgets that you can add to your desktop. One of them is the “App launcher” which adds a toolbar similar to the “Quick launch” of any Windows. So in case you have so many icons on your quick launch bar and you need another one, you can use this application. But this one has a feature that the “quick launch” doesn’t have and this is the fact that you can add Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox favorites, and when clicking one of these icons a fly-out list appears, and you can go to your favorite webpage directly from your desktop.
Another gadget that you can use it the “Ask Windows Live”. You can ask about any question you want (such as “Which is the capital of Nebraska?”, “Who is Amy Winehouse?”, What is a hypotenuse?” and so on) and the application will try to give you the correct answer. It will search for your answer on sources such as Live QnA MSDN, Windows Live and Wikipedia and it will find it most of the times.
Another application is the “Callwave Visual Voicemail” which brings you full voicemail notification for when receiving text messages and calls on your phone. So even though you don’t have your phone at you, or you turned it off, you can see the number of the person who called you, the date, and the time of the conversation.
If you want you can download, install and use the “Gmail reader mini outlook inbox”, which is a cool gadget that allows you to read your emails without even having to enter your email address from an internet browser. So you will immediately know when you got a new mail or you can read the ones that you already have. The Gmail Reader shows the 20 newest messages from your Gmail account. If you move the cursor over a mail you will see a short preview of it, and if you click it you can read the entire mail. And of course you can also reply to emails, thanks to the Mini Outlook Inbox feature.
If you are just preparing to go somewhere with your car and you want to know how the traffic is, you can use the Live Search Maps – powered Traffic gadget. This will show you the real time traffic conditions, a dynamic map on which you can zoom in or out, information about traffic lights and driving directions and other useful things. It’s not available for any city of the world, and only for major metropolitan areas.
So here were just a few examples of cool gadgets that you can use on your desktop, but of course there are many more others. So if you know some that are really good, please share them with us. Have a nice day!
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010 |
The computers and the internet had really evolved in the last decades, and today they had become a part of our lives. And since they are used in so many domains and activities we can even say that computers and the internet had taken over our lives. The internet is accessed by billions of people each day, and you can do all sorts of things online. You can do things related to your job, or you can search for any kind of information you want, or you can chat with friends and meet new people from any country of the world, or you can download all sorts of things such as: music, videos or pictures.
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If you really like watching videos, but you don’t want to download them and fill up the space on your hard drive, there is a solution for you. And this solution is made out of all the websites that are allowing you to watch movies, without having to download them. You just choose the video you want to see, click on it and see it directly from your internet browser. There are many sites of this kind and youtube.com is the most famous of all. It has billions of videos and billions of viewers every day, and it has videos with anything you might think of, from any country of the world.
Today we’ll discuss about a specific video, one with a chameleon. We all know that chameleons are famous for their ability to change colors according to the environment, and this video is just about this topic. We first searched for this video on youtube, by entering keywords such as “cool chameleon” or
“the coolest chameleon ever video”. But we found just some videos with just a few hundreds views. And we thought that this is not possible, since this video is really famous all over the world. And then we found out that the real name of the video is “Super chameleon”, and it has more than 1,800,000 views. It also has 4,700 ratings and 3,576 comments, and this proves what we said before – that is a really famous video.
So now let’s discuss about this really interesting video. The video begins with a big green chameleon sitting on a table. After a few seconds someone puts a pair of purple sunglasses on the table, near the chameleon. And now the magic begins to happen, and once the chameleon touches the sun glasses, it begins to color himself in purple. And after just 2-3 seconds, he is all covered in purple. Then the person takes the purple sunglasses away, and puts a pair of blue sunglasses on the table. And just in a few moments after touching them, the chameleon begins to turn blue. Its color is changing beginning from the leg which he touches the glasses with, and then through his whole body. After this the hand puts a new pair of sunglasses, this time some red ones. And of course, the chameleon will turn red. The next pair will be a black one, and the chameleon will again change its color. And the video ends “triumphal” with the chameleon sitting on three pairs of sun glasses (blue, purple and black), and with its body colored in three different colors – the head is blue, the beginning of the torso is purple, and the rest of the torso and tail are black. So after all it is a cool video, that is showing the ability of the chameleon to change its color. But from our perspective, this video is a fake, because none chameleon can change its color so fast (in just a few seconds). If you read some of the comments you will notice that there are 2 type of users: the ones who consider this video a fake, and the ones who believe that it is real. So after all it is up to you to decide which of these 2 parts you join.
Another famous video with a chameleon is the one called “Go shorty”. This video also has more than 1 million views and thousands of ratings and comments. In this video you can see a chameleon that is crossing the street, and which seems to dance. In the background you can hear the famous song of 50 cent – In da club, and the chameleon seems to move according to this song. This video is entirely true, and of course the chameleon was not dancing, but someone thought to put some music in the background and to make it look like he is dancing. And this was quite a good idea, that made the video really funny and really popular.
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010 |
The computers and the internet had really evolved in the last years and today they had become a part of our lives. They are used in so many domains, so we can’t even imagine how the life in 2010 would have been without computers and internet. There are all sorts of things that you can do on the internet, for example: search for all kind of information in any domain, download music, videos or pictures, play video games or socialize with other people from all over the world. You can first meet them on a socializing site such as : MySpace, Facebook or Hi5 and then discuss more with them on socializing software such as: Yahoo Messenger, Hotmail MSN, Skype or others.
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One of the most famous social networking sites in the world, used by millions of people from all over the world is MySpace.com. The company who has this site has the headquarters in California, United States and has around 1.000 employees. Myspace was launched in 2003 and in 2006 it had become the most popular social networking site in the United States. Internationally it is overtaken just by Facebook, which is its main competitor. In 2006 Myspace had the 100 millionth account but of course since then there were many other millions of accounts made.
Myspace offers a lot of cool features for its users such as: allowing them to share pictures with themselves, videos and even personal music that they have made. It is a must for any big singer or DJ to have a Myspace page, that is visited by all of his / her fans. Through Myspace you can also send comments and messages to others and it is a really fun site, perfect for making new friends.
If you are not pleased with the classic design and features offered by the site, you can also add many other gadgets to your personal page. So now we’ll present some Myspace gadgets, but these ones can also be used on other sites such as: Blogger, Facebook or Wordpress. The most simplest but effective one is the “time and date” gadget, which of course is showing the time and date and which can be fully customized. There are many gadgets that are allowing your visitors to play some video games on your page, and among the famous games that you can add there are: Super Mario Bros. 3, Counter Strike, Ice racer, Mega Man and many more.
If you are a business man or a broker, or if you simply like the stock exchange, you can add the “Forbes.com stock watch list” gadget to your myspace page which allows you to follow the prices of an unlimited number of stocks from many exchange markets of the world.
You can even add quiz gadgets to your page, and one of them is the “New optical illusion quiz” that is really fun to play. There are also gadgets with announcements, and one of them is “cheap travel” which has over 1 millions cars for sale and also information about traffic and car tax. Another gadget is called “tricks and tips” and it offers you and your visitors all sorts of useful tips and tricks regarding computer and mobile phones. You can even add an online version of a dictionary or encyclopedia if you want. Since Easter is coming, you can choose to add the “Easter clock” gadget and this will put a clock with a funny rabbit on your page.
Among the many games gadgets that you can add there are many with jigsaw puzzle games, which can be quite useful for when you are bored. Another cool gadget that you can use is the location finder, that allows you to find the location on someone on the map, just by typing his IP address. There are also many of them showing you news from all over the world, the weather, and any other kind of information that you want.
So here were just some examples of cool gadgets that you can add to your Myspace page, but there are so many more others. Just search for them on the internet, and if you find some others that are really cool and worth using, tell us all about them. Have a nice day!
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