Archive for the ‘Soft Gadgets’ Category
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 |
A blog is all about you because you can say anything you want or nothing. You can post pictures with your favorite places in the world or you can write about the things that matter most to you, about the places where you like to visit or the music you listen to.
You can download many gadgets to make your blog look better organized and the first one you should have is the IP and Google Map Location gadget.
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The name of the gadget is self explanatory, which means that this gadget is able to show your blog visitors the IP address and the location on Google maps. If you want to have this gadget on your blog, you should place it in a wide section because it will need a lot of space to display your location on the map.
The next cool
gadget you can add on your
blog is the Sign Language gadget. This is a useful gadget because it can help you and your visitors to learn the sign language. The application comes with animated hands that display the alphabet. This gadget also gives your visitors the possibility to click on a letter and to see the sign of that letter.
The wide blog gadget needs a lot of space for display, because it is a wide gadget – this is the Windows Live Messenger. This is a good application if you want your visitors and you to be able to sing in into Windows Live directly from your page. You have the possibility to check your e-mail and to chat with your friends.
If you like to drink coffee in the morning and you like to share this with all your blog visitors, you can add to your blog the next cool gadget – the Coffee Daily. This is a cool application that shows random coffee facts, which means that you can learn cool and interesting information about the beverage you like the most. This is a great application for coffee addicts and all coffee drinkers. For example, did you know that coffee beans were a primary ration to the soldiers during the Civil War in United States of America?
The Universal Converter is cool blog gadget that needs ample space for display. This gadget will is able to convert any unit you want into other unit, but they have to be from the same domain. For example, you can convert meters in miles or centimeters in feet etc.
Daily Horoscopes could be another cool blog gadget for you. This application offers you and your visitors access to read daily horoscopes. All you have to do is to click on your astrological sign and you can read the information.
Covert to PDF is a useful gadget that you and your visitors can use to convert web pages and documents into PDF format. This is a great gadget that works very well.
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 |
The computers are getting more and more advanced with a lot of advanced technologies included. The monitors are getting thinner and also wider, the processor, RAM and all of the other internal components are getting stronger, the keyboard and mice are getting smaller and wireless, the speakers are getting smaller but more powerful and it is the same with all of the hardware components. But not just the hardware is evolving, but the software too. First of all there are the operating systems that are getting better and better each year. The most famous operating system used by billions of people every day is Windows, and it has many versions that were improved each time. The latest of all is Windows 7, that has a lot of cool features and gadgets for the user.
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But it is not necessary to have the Windows 7 to have cool gadgets, because you can find so many of them on the internet. Some are free, while others need to be bought first, but you can find anything you want. There are gadgets to indicate you the clock, the weather, the latest news, the calendar, a countdown, a timer and so on. You can use some of them on your desktop, while others are made to be placed on your website or blog.
So today we’ll discuss about just some type of gadgets and we’ll choose some
countdown gadgets. One of them that is made specially for Windows Vista can be found on this site:
http://www.gadgetsforvista.net/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,109/Itemid,27/ . You just have to enter the date for the event, and the message that you want to see at that time, and the soft will count down for you. It can count in days, hours, minutes and seconds. You can use a gadget like this to see how much time there is left until your birthday, or until you get out of work, or until your favorite show begins, or for any kind of event that you are just waiting for. You have a download link there on the site, and since this software has been downloaded 52.361 times, it means that is really good.
Now let’s discuss about some other countdown gadgets that can be used for your webpage. One of them is the “Birthday reminder”. So this one will remind you of your birthday, but we guess you always know when your birthday is, so you can use it to remind yourself about the birthdays of other persons. You can set the birthday for your girlfriend or wife, or for your family or friends and you can even keep a gift list to your contacts. Another cool gadget is the “Countdown to Christmas” and as you might already figured it out, this one shows how many days are left until this cool holiday – the Christmas.
If you are a fan of the “Lost” TV show, you can put the “Lost Countdown” on your site, and it will countdown the time left until the next episode of your favorite show. Since there is a countdown gadget for Christmas there had to be one for New Year’s Eve, and this is the “Conto all rovescia – Countdown timer until next year”. There is another one that shows the time left until the World Cup 2010 in South Africa, and you can use this if you are a fan of soccer. It will look really good especially if you have a website or a blog that is related to sport and soccer. The movie is already out, but there was a countdown gadget that was showing the time left until the release if the movie Harry Potter and the Half blood prince. If you are a fan of the Ubuntu operating system you can choose the gadget that shows the time left until the launch of Ubuntu 7.10. There probably is a countdown software for any kind of holiday, so there is one for Easter too. And this is the “T-Minus Easter countdown clock”. If you are a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles American Football Team, then you can place the “Eagles countdown” on your site, and see the time left until their next game.
There are many other interesting countdown gadgets and here are just some examples: Halloween countdown, Heroes Countdown, Countdown to Dexter Season 4, 2012 winter solstice, Countdown until Twilight New Moon movie is out, countdown until Nascar next race, until the Olympic games and many more others.
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
Lacuna Launcher is a soft gadget that gives you the possibility to launch many programs from a single shortcut. If you are a business person or a colleague student you need to launch multiple programs and you need them to do your work. If you don’t want to search from the programs you want in the star menu every time you need them, you can try this application.
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Lacuna Launcher allows you to make a text file, you can make it in Work, Notepad other text editor program, where you have to list the programs you want to start from the single shortcut. You have to type them one per line and the first one you typed is the fist one that is going to be launched. Then you have to create a shortcut of the Lacuna Launcher application and rename it as the text file you created. After you did this, all your programs will launch from a single shortcut, but you need to know that launching many programs for computer will slow down.
Lacuna Launcher gives you the possibility to make a waiting period between the programs which means that the software will wait for a number of seconds before launching the next program. The application is free and it works with Microsoft Windows XP and Vista.
The next soft gadget is the PDFCreator – this program can make and print a PDF from any windows program. This is a free PDF creation program and it works with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. This application is very easy to use; all you have to do is to select it as a printer in a Windows program that gives you the possibility to print and when you select the print option your document will be automatically converted to a PDF file.
You also have the possibility to save the PDF file anywhere you want on your hard drive. This great application has the following features: you can also protect and encrypt for PDF files from being printed, copied or opened. You can also digitally sign the PDF files and you can also create EPS, PS, PCX, BMP, JPG and PNG files.
Crawler Parental Control is a free application for the parents to control their children’s computer use. This is a great application for parents who want to prevent their kids to access inappropriate sites. This is a powerful and solid parental control application, but is not easy to use because you have to make a lot of configuration options. This soft gadget allows parents to: limit what type from the installed software the kids can launch, limit the access to folders and files, control the websites the kids can access, deny the installation of you software from the Internet.
The parents can also choose when their kids can access the Internet or other programs, so they cannot surf the web when they need to do their homework. As a parent you can also hide the folders and other data that you don’t want your kids to see. This application runs on Windows XP operating system.
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