Coolest Websites

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 |

There are many cool websites on the web, a lot more then we can write about. This is not a top of the best sites, but a gratitude for those websites that helped us when we most needed, for our exams, for our essays or for our entertainment.
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Wikipedia is the well-known free encyclopedia. Here you can find anything about everything, it is free to access and you can edit and update the information in it. The information you find on the website is very accurate and we know it helped you a few times with your school essays or homework. It is available in many languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Deutsch, German, Romanian and a lot more.

Another cool website is YouTube. When you need to view a video from your favorite pop or rock star you will always find it on YouTube and you can see it as many times you want or you can download it. If you need something to make you laugh, you can always view a lot of funny cat movies, funny dog movies or a lot of human tricks movies. You have a project in PhotoShop but you don’t know anything about this program you can always find a few tutorials on YouTube and all this for free. And if you want everyone to see your funny moments you can upload them on this website, all you need to do is make an account.

Everyone has a Twitter account. This is a cool site that helps you stay in touch with your friends, change impressions, ideas and communicate, make new friends and upload photos. Twitter’s community is very large, so if you need to find new virtual friends you can look for them on Twitter.

If you need to find something on the Internet the first place you should look is Amazon. This is the website where you can find almost every product sold online. You will find here: books, music, games, DVDs, electronics, toys, computers, clothes, watches, shoes, products for your health and beauty, software programs, kitchen products, garden products and many more at a very good price. This is a website for everyone, so no matter if you are from Canada, United States of America, Europe or Asia you can buy online whatever you want.

When you are a student you have a very full life, full of parties, trips and mall shopping. We know you try to find some spear time to go at courses but you just can’t find the right moment. Well, thanks to Academic Earth you can view your courses online. This cool website offers you the possibility to access a lot of academic lectures and video courses, for example: Introduction to Literary Theory, Introduction to Life Sciences or JavaScript. You can find a lot of video courses from the next subject: history, literature, media studies, mathematics, anthropology, biology, computer science, architecture, chemistry, medicine, psychology, political science and many more.

To communicate with the ones you love while they are million miles away by mobile phone doesn’t seems such a good idea because you will get a very big phone bill. The answer is Skype, the cool website that uses voice over Internet protocol to help you communicate with other people. All you have to do is you join Skype and tell the people you want to talk to do the same and Skype will turn your and their internet connection into a videophone. It is free to download and you can make as many calls as you want wherever you want for free.

Hulu is a website financed by Fox and NBC that gives its users free movies and TV in a high quality. This is a free online service and you can here many TV shows including: Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Family Gay, America’s Most Wanted, Cops, The Office and many more. You don’t need to wait for your favorite TV shows to be on TV when you can search for it on Hulu.

Google is a rearch engine and an e-mail provider. It is always there when you need to search for something on the Internet, you can type a word, a phrase and it finds very quickly what you are looking for. And you can always reach for images by size or type.

OpenTable is a cool website that helps you make a reservation to your favorite restaurant. You can even say what kind of food you want to have when you go at the restaurant and where you want to have your table. It easy to use, it really works and saves you a lot of time.

There are thousand of things happening in the world every day and if you want to know them all you can visit Popurls. This is the website where you will find the headlines from the most popular and biggest news. You can also find some comments and opinions about the news.

Etsy is the child of eBay and Amazon. You can find here a lot of products if you are looking for furniture handmade, fashion handmade, toys handmade and housewares. This site feels very intimate and specially designed for you, because it sells products handmade by people for the people all over the world.

California Coastline is the website that shows you everything you want to see from the best surf place to celebrities Malibu backyard. It is made from about 10.000 up-close shots, therefore the quality of the pictures and places you see is very high. This cool website shows helps you find everything you want on the California Costline.

These are some cool websites on the web that you can explore whenever you need to.

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CPU Temp Gadget

Monday, December 14th, 2009 |

You can find a lot of CPU temperature gadgets online to keep a closer look at what is going on with your CPU. Many of them can be found free to download and here are some examples:

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Core Temp 0.99.5 will help you know the temperature of your microprocessor even it is an Intel or AMD. It is import to have this type of gadget on your computer because if your components temperature is high you can loose the components due to overheating and even if you don’t lose them your computer will have low performance.

Core Temp application helps you to control the microprocessor temperature, the applications gives you the possibility to know more information about the chip and it can worn you if your CPU reaches a certain temperature.

Cpu Clock Utility is another CPU temperature gadget. This is the application that will allow you to take control of your Cpu and to know what’s going on in there. CPU Clock Utility gives its users the possibility to control in real-time the CPU load level, throttle and its frequency. The users are able to monitor the 3 features above and adjust their Cpu performance.

The application supports the next CPU models: AMD K8, Intel Pentium 4 & Xeon, AMD K7, Intel Core 2, Intel Pentium M/Centrino, and Intel Core Solo/Core Duo/Centrino Duo.

The application detects and shows to its users any form of their CPU clock throttling, charge level, discharge/charge rate, displays in real time the battery life time and the CPU core temperature.

This is a complex CPU temperature gadget with an easy to use interface.

CPU-Z 1.51 is a free application that will detect and show all the data from the processor and from the hardware of your computer. It is easy to use, just run the tool and you will see on screen: the supported power supply, the model and the name of the processor, over clock detection, out and in clock and many more.

This application is very useful is you want to know if the processor has the speed modified or you have in your computer the type of hardware you paid for.

If you need a gadget that can show more than your CPU performance, Rainmeter is the application for you. It will show you the hardware use, upload/download speed and CPU use. If you want more you can set up a feature for weather forecast, technology news and computer news. You can customize it by downloading new skins from the web and by deciding what type of application you want to see on screen.

Real temp 3.40 is another CPU temperature application that you can find it free to download, but it will only work if you have an Intel single Core, Quad Core and Dual Core, it doesn’t support Pentium 4. These processors have a DTS (this is a digital thermal sensor) which reports data of the temperature to TjMax (is the optimal temperature for CPU).

The main features for this application are:

-         read the temperature information
-         has test sensor that are able to check the DTS for signs of problems
-         it has a high temperature alarm, and if this happens has a shutdown feature to protect your computer
-         shows max/minimum temperatures
-         it is very accurate and quick

PC Wizard is a tool for hardware detection but it can do so much more. It is able to analyze many types of hardware, for example Cache performance, CPU performance, Hard Disk performance, RAM performance, Flash Media performance, CD-ROM or DVD-ROM performance. This is a free application to download.

CoolMon 2 Buid is a tool for monitoring the vital systems of you computer. The application can display status form a remote personal computer and if you want can publish the information on a webpage. The main features for this application:

-         Ram and page file usage
-         CPU performance
-         Hard drive usage
-         MotherBoard monitor temperatures
-         Processor usage
-         Number of Threads
-         Number of Processes
-         Computer name
-         Computer Uptime
-         All IP addresses
-         Total Bytes received and send
-         Processor type
-         Date and time

This is a very complex application and if you need it you can download it for free.

The next application is also a free, a simple gadget that allows its users to monitor the CPU performance right from their desktop. It indicates in real-time the current usage and a graph of your computer’s CPU. It can be customized: you can change the colors; it can be set to alpha-blending or transparency. The application comes with a tool provides the next features: supports multiple CPUs and displays detailed CPU information.

Hardware Sensor Monitor is a program that shows you all the information you want to know about your computer. It is easy to use, all you have to do is click the icon and you will see real-time data for the components you want.

The application is able to restrict heat production and CPU performance when it gets to hot thanks to a feature called CPU Thorttling. Displays drive temperature and hardware monitoring data. The monitoring information can be viewed remotely via WMI, SMP or PerfMon.

SpeedFan it control temperature and fans on it users system. It displays the temperature of the HD, the micro, charge of the CPU and fan speed. SpeenFan offers you the possibility to control the fan speed so now you are able to speed it up for your computer to cool down faster. It is able to detect automatically the information, so it is easy to use.

These are some CPU temperature computer gadgets and, as you can see, you have a lot to choose from.

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Coolest Webcams

Saturday, December 12th, 2009 |

A webcam is an essential accessory if you want to stay connected with the loved ones, to see them while you are communicating with them or just to talk to your friends on Skype.
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Many computers, especially laptops, have nowadays built-in webcams but they don’t do such a great job, sometimes they freeze on an image or they don’t send images at all.

HP GX607AA 12MP Elite Webcam may be the webcam for you. This webcam offers you a high definition video quality and is able to keep the image always focused and sharp thanks to the 3 megapixel sensor which has Autofocus. In a still image the HP webcam can go up to 12 megapixel of capture. You can use it for videoconferencing or to talk with your friends on Windows Live, Skype, AIM and Yahoo Messenger. It is very easy to attach it to the monitor thanks to a flexible clip. To the press of the button on the camera you can open your favorite instant messaging program and also your webcams controls. It has a stereo microphone, therefore you will not only see your friends but you can talk to them as well The software that comes with this webcam can help you edit, capture or share short videos and also edit images.. The software you need for these applications comes with the webcam as well as the HP easy clip and a quick set –up guide.

Another cool webcam is the Lenovo USB webcam; it has 2 microphones and excellent sound and video quality. The microphones have noise reduction this means that they are able to pick up only your voice and not the whole surrounding sound. A 1.3 megapixel sensor allows its users to capture pictures and videos of a high quality. The webcam can be positioned on the desk, on a CRT, flat panel monitor or your notebook. A ball-joint pivot allows the webcam to the rotated at 360 degree. This feature allows you to have a better contact with the ones you talk; you can show them your room, your latest computer gadget or the new T-shirt from the mall.

Creative Labs Live! Cam Optia Pro 2L Webcam from Creative Labs in another cool webcam. It is a USB webcam that can record up to 30 frames per second at a recording resolution of 800×600. The webcam software comes with a smart Face Tracking program that allows the webcam to have a 4X digital zoom, so now the people you talk to can see you better. The 1.3 sensor gives you high quality even if you have a lot of light in your room or you have a darker room. It is easy to install, just Plug and Play and it has a built-in microphone with noise reduction so friends can hear you better and without the background noise.

Mister Robot-o Webcam from Imogen Studio in another great webcam. It has the ability to motorized Auto Tracking at 140 degree vertical and 204 degree horizontal that means the webcam is able to follow automatically your movement. If you have an iPhone you can control it and view it from it if you install the Seedonk iPhone application (comes with the webcam). It has a standard resolution at 640×480 at 30 frames per second but it can go up to 1280×1024 at 8 frames per second. The Mister Robot-o Webcam work with Yahoo, AOL, Skype and Windows Live Messanger and you can buy it at a price of $49.99.

Apple iSight Video Conferencing Webcam with Autofocus can be bought at $359.99, but this webcam is not ordinary. The wbcam is able to capture high quality photos even if you have a low light in your room due to the autofocusing autoexposure F/2.8 lens. The webcam also has a dual-element microphone. It is very lightweight (it has only 63.8 grams so it is easy to carry) and durable thanks to the strong aluminum alloy exterior that protects the electronics. Due to the tilt and swivel mechanism and 3 stands iSight is able to capture photos or video at the best angle. The microphone has noise reduction and thanks to algorithm that filters unessential noise the people you are communicating with can hear you better.

iSight comes with on board processor that can adjust the sharpness, the focus, the color, the exposure and the white balance. The Webcam’s lenses can autofocus at 50 mm so even if you are very close to the webcam you will have a clear image.

If you want to surprise the people you are talking to, you can close the lens cover, this operation closes the video transmission but it doesn’t disconnect the conversation. You have also the possibility to mute the audio, if you want, and still continuing to transmit video.

If you like to communicate a lat at night but you don’t want to keep the lights on the next camera is what you need. Small and flexible is a USB Webcam with infrared night vision from Q-Cam. The camera has built-in seven led lights Microphone and a Snap Shot button. It has also built in 2 infrared LED so even in your room is dark you can still have a conversation with someone and that someone will be able to see you. The webcam has 24-bit color image processing, it is easy to install just Plug and Play. You have the possibility to adjust the image control: contrast, white balance, hue, gamma correction, saturation, sharpness, exposure and color (R/G/gB).

These are a few cool webcams for you to choose from and you can find a lot more on the market. Everyone needs a webcam so it is essential for the communication with the ones far away from us.

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Computer Gadgets

Saturday, December 12th, 2009 |

Computers are now a part of our lives; we may have a desktop, a notebook or a laptop but everyone has a computer.

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Computer gadgets can be found everywhere on the market and in the next lines we will present you some of them.

5 in 1 Multi Functional Speaker is a computer USB gadget. 5 in 1 means that this gadget is: a speaker, a microphone, a USB port hub, a webcam and a SD card reader. It can be connected to your computer or to an mp3 player and it work with AIM, Skype, iChat, MSN and more. The webcam has a maximum resolution of 1280×1024 and up to 30 frames per second at 640×480. You can control the following options for a better image: contrast, color saturation, gamma and edge improved. The card reader functions are: support MMC card/SD and USB 2.0.

The next computer gadget is USB 2.0 Designer HUB; it is able to transfer the data up to 480Mbps and it is easy to install – just Plug and Play. Is not only an USB, it is also an indoor thermometer able to display the temperature in Fahrenheit and in Celsius. The gadget has also a clock with a 5-music snooze alarm and it can display the calendar. You can find it in 3 colors: blue, green and orange, therefore you can choose the one that goes best with your computer.

Another clock gadget for your computer is Cup Warmer and USB Hub with Clock. This gadget is USB powered and it has a 4-port USB, a cup warmer and a clock with date. This is good at the office because it always keeps your coffee warm so you won’t have to go and buy a new one because the one you have got cold. The cup warmer has an insulation material for safety and red light tells you when the plate is active. The plate heats at about 50 degree Celsius and stays at this temperature to always have your tea or coffee warm.

The USB is the best way to transport information, it has a lot of memory space and it is very small. The problem with it is that the USB doesn’t offer protection for the information stored. If you lose it everyone can have access to the information. Now this problem in gone because you can have a USB Fingerprint Security Dongle. This USB has a sensor sensitivity of 508 DPI and you can encrypt the files with your fingerprint. You can use it also to encrypt drivers, or fingerprint authority is you want to visit web sites or to log on to your operating system.

When you work on your computer you use a lot your keyboard and sometimes it is getting dirty. Is takes a lot of time and nerves to clean it and at the end you realized that you didn’t do a great job. The next computer gadget is a Washable Flexible Silicone Rubber PC Keyboard, as the name says it, the keyboard is a washable one made of flexible silicon rubber that makes it easier to wash and clean. It is water and mildew resistant, doesn’t need installation just plug it into an USB port and it will work.

Optimus Maximus Keyboard is a standard keyboard with buttons that have a little screen.

The keyboard gives you the possibility to set a graphic on each button for any applications. It is a lot of graphics to set because the keyboard has 117 buttons and each one comes with a screen. This may be fun for the kids to play with, but we don’t find the purpose for that many screens.

The next gadget is also a keyboard, a virtual one. The display of the keyboard can put on any surface and it is able to detect the fingers movement as they touch the virtual keys. You are able to control the sensitivity and the intensity of the infrared keyboard and works with a laptop, PDA or mobile phone.

The next computer gadget is the computer itself – the case of the computer. It is produced by Thermaltake with the name Level 10. The case has a matte blank finish and it provides to every computer component its own ventilation. It comes with a locking mechanism so the only person who can open it is you. To have this 21 century case you will need to have 700 dollars because that is the price for it.

We talk about the computer’s case, the USB port, the keyboard but we haven’t talked about the mouse. The next computer gadget is a mouse, but not just any mouse – an 18 buttons mouse. The gadget is from OpenOffice and they ware able to put 18 buttons on a mouse. All of these buttons can be programmed; therefore you can put any functions you want. It you program all of them you will find yourself in a situation when you don’t know which button does what. And the buttons are very small, so you can always press 5 instead of 7 and every time you want to press a button you have to look at the mouse, now that not why the mouse is made – is made to control things from it while you are looking at your computer display not at the mouse.

Elecom gives us the next computer gadget. It is a magnetic Memory Card Reader; this means you can put it anywhere on the computer’s case or other metal objects.

These are some of the coolest computer gadgets we found. Enjoy!

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Coolest Programs For Vista

Thursday, December 10th, 2009 |

If you have Windows Vista as an operating system on your computer, we found the coolest programs for Vista just for you.
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You rely on your computer to keep the information you have in a secure place, but what if your hardware fails? There is nothing more to do and all the information could be lost. BurnInTest Standard is a cool program for Vista that is able to run exercises to your computer hardware to see if there are hidden or intermittent problems. It is able to exercise all major components of your computer simultaneously. The program runs test for reliability and for endurance. You have the possibility to select what type of hardware components you would like to test and the result of each test comes in a separate window along with any errors that the program detected. For example you can test in the same time, computer components like: CDs, DVDs, graphics and sound drives, ports and network connections, RAM, CPUs and even Blu-Ray drives. The program gives you the possibility to print the result, to export it as a graphical image or to save to disk. BurnItTest has also other features like: a test for max CPU temperature, periodic logging and also timed test runs. The program gives you access to many detailed system information, for example: CPU features, L2 cache size, amount of CPU cores, virtual and physical memory, physical CPUs.

InControl is a start up manager that can help you edit the settings of your programs at start up or you can add new programs. If you don’t want to be bothered by a specific program at startup you can add it to the Black List. If you want to undo a process and get back to the previous state you can do that because the application is able to remember all the changes you have made.

Another cool program for Vista is TM Google Site Analyzer; this program allows its users to analyze their web site. You can get outgoing and incoming links for each page and also you can get Google PageRank. The program is able to show you: the internal rank of each page of your web site, the external and internal links, backlinks and size. The program gives you 2 tabsheets if you double click on the link address in the program. The first tabsheet gives you document information, for example: content-type, server type, date and transfer-encoding and you can also see the HTML code on the tabsheet. The second tabsheet gives you the possibility to see the page like in a web browser by loading it.

If you have an account on Trillian and you forgot the password the next program will help you get it back. Trillian is an instant messenger for Windows and you can sign in it with many accounts like: Yahoo, IRC, MSN, ICQ and AIM. Doesn’t matter if the password is long or not, the program will recover it; it is very easy to use and it has a user friendly interface.

RegistryCure is a program that allows it users to fix computer registry problems. You have the possibility to clean the registry automatically or manually. You can put the program to a schedule scan, you can see the progress of the scan on your monitor and it is able to clean and manage startup programs.  The program analyzes all the paths, the corrupt files and the registry, than it repairs them automatically so that your computers functions better. The program is able to find and delete the missing programs in the start up; it allows you choose what type of programs you want to have when your computer starts.

Obvek 1.53b is another cool program for Vista. The program is a 3D graphic system that allows it users to solve computer with the help of the 3D environment. The program has many tasks like: playback music files, show time, control computer functions, edit text files, run programs, organize and store links to your favorite files (for example music, text, photo and video), show pictures and calculate with the help of a 3D calculator.

Orbit Downloader gives you the possibility to download from web sites like YouTube, Pandora and other music or video websites. The program is available in many languages like: French, Italian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Spanish, German, Dutch, English and many more. It is east to use and it uses less than 3% of CPU when it is downloading, that means that your computer will not slow down when you are downloading with Orbit Downloader.

A Great Grabber is a program that can help you find what you want on Internet, because it scans and grabs the information you need. All you have to do is input a start webpage and the extension of the file you want and than the program does all the work. If there are images or movies in the files, the imagines will be shown in the view window and the video files will be shown in the video window. The program allows you to download all file types, for example: .mp3, .avi, .gif, .pdf, .wav and many more.

If you have some trouble with a W32/Saturn Trojan virus in your computer and you can’t delete it, the next program might help you. cleansaturn.exe is a tool that can detect and remove the computer virus from your PC. All you have to do it install the tool, follow the instruction and the computer virus will be completely remove from your computer.

If you like to create website, the next program is for you. Website Layout Maker can help you create a lot websites; the sites created are div-tag-bases so is very easy for you to edit them. You have a lot of themes to choose from, the layout stage gives you the possibility to set, copy and resize the layout. In the element stage you many options for your website, for example shading background. It is easy to use and the interface is user-friendly.

Portello is a program that can help you update easier your website. The program puts your webpage into an editable mode. You are able to create links, to paste, to cut, to add new picture or to rescale the old ones. It is very easy to use and the program tells you everything you need to know for good and fast website update.

These are a few cool programs you can find for Vista, but there are many others waiting to be discovered.

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