Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Friday, April 16th, 2010 |
Making a band in our days is like making a sandwich: it takes so much time to prepare it, and you almost never get to enjoy ir because it finishes so quick. Hilariously, still, there are plenty of youngsters across the globe who seek for world fame and trying to make a hit with their garage bands, even though, in the bottom of their harts, they know they will never get to have fans, play on stadium or have groupies. Still, we are not here to discourage you! Maybe you’ll make a good band one day with your friends and be the next Beatles.
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Anyway, making a band requires a lot of time. First, it’s the gender you want to play a big issue: you might want to play rock ballades or pop-rock gigs, but still you write lyrics for more soft songs or whatsoever, so subscribing to a single gender you want to approach can be very difficult, time consuming and in the end, not so efficient as you would want also. Another pain is finding the write name for the band. Many names might sound right but maybe not right enough for what you want. Still, if you are looking for some band names which my sound cool, never forget that many others have already thought of it and made online generators for names that you could never ever come up with, but which might sound pretty cool after all. In order to get the idea and never forget that Juliet herself didn’t get the importance of a good name:
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.”
–From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)”
Meanwhile, the list of unused band names becomes shorter, as the number of aspiring rock stars sprout about. If you are still looking for a cool name that will sound good for your band, you might want to check some random band name generator sites, like the following:
- leonsrandomgenerator.com provides you besides band name generators other cool things like random generators for song lyrics, chord progressions or other amusing nonsense that you will probably never use.
-bandnamemaker.com allows you also to insert an optional word for your favourite combo. You might not find the most appealing results, but it’s a very fun way to start your international star career. Nevertheless, some band names that seem just a row of non-sense words put together are still having success and enjoy a slice of the big showbiz pie; really, how cool really sound names like “Smashing pumpkins”, “Death cab for cutie” or others? There are so many weird band names that I can’t even think of, but who knows, maybe in your one moment madnass, you will find that band name that is appealing to both ears and public and maybe you can be the next “New kinds on the block” or Maroon 5.
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010 |
It is true that most of the Windows program users have switched to Vista or the newest version, Windows 7, but there are still people using XP versions (Home and Professional) and so, gadgets are available for them also. Gadgets are mini program that offer you certain information and also give you a glance about the frequently used tools. Also, the Windows sidebar helps you in organizing your gadgets and devices.
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The Windows Sidebar is a pane that usually appears on the right side of your Microsoft desktop (or screen) used in order to keep your gadgets and gizmos well organized and daily available. Also, if the right side doesn’t suit you best, you can always customize the Sidebar and put it on your preferred location, such as always on op feature or sitting below maximized windows. The gadgets ones uses can have a wide angle of possible uses, so that they can connect to the Internet in order to deliver business data, weather information, the newest updates or traffic zone mapes, provide you with the best radio stream and much more. They can also interact with other programs in order to provide you streamlined entertainment. As already people can see with the clear eye from the Internet, the most gadgets available online and for free support the Vista operational system or the newly released Windows 7. As some users might be a little more traditionalist (or have rather old desktops). not everybody uses the vista version or the windows 7, but features can be found available for all windows users, no matter the year or the version they are running.
As stated before, the Windows Sidebar and Gadgets featured with Windows Vista looks much alike the widgets introduced for the Mac OS 10 or the desktop bar included with Google Desktop Search or the Yahoo! now deskbar.
This gadgets feature calendars, sticky notes, clock, weather news available, music players or even a running slideshow of some of your favorite photos and loads more.
As the sleek Windows Vista Sidebar is part of the Vista feature and does not run as a separate product, sites like thoosje.com have released a similar sidebar for the
Windows XP OS that looks and works alike its sister’s Vista Sidebar, all free of charge of course.
Some of the most used free gadgets for windows XP are integrated in a set called Crystal Gadgets for Windows XP and Vista, and it includes the following:
-Gadget Watch
-Gadget Calendar
-Gadget Calculator
-Search engine and busola
Also,the newly released 2010 version, the Windows XP Gadgets for this year include:
-Glassy TimeTime
-Date
-Calculator
-Weather
-Music
-Player
-Info System and many more and is available for download at http://rapidshare.com/files/341263289/30_Windows_XP_Gadgets_2010.rar address.
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 |
The coolest must have applications for the new iPhone 3GS are, of course, the free ones, because they provide great features and functions without any cost. Let’s take Trapster, for example, this is a cool application that will notify you when you have a speed camera or a red light camera around you.
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The application follows your current GPS location in real time and displays on your iPhone 3GS touch screen the radar alert zone, so you can slow down if you are driving fast. The software comes with Twitter and Facebook integration, so you can post your favorite trips on your Twitter or Facebook account.
The application is easy to use – the Map display options allow you to select the items you want to see on the map and if you want to see the speed traps you have to select the “Report Enforcement Point” option.
Joost is another c
ool free
must have application for your
new iPhone 3G
S that allows you to watch movies, TV shows and listen to music for free. The application gives you the possibility to choose from thousands of videos, TV shows, celebrity news and more. You can browse them by category, you can view the most popular videos or you can search for a specific video.
This is a cool on-the-go video entertainment and you can download it for free from iTunes. For more information about Joost, visit the www.joost.com website.
Free Photo Filter, as the name implies, is a free photo filer application that allows you to make your photos better then ever. The application includes the following filters: lomography filter, polarizing filter, black and white filter and retro effect filter. The filters are simple and the application is very easy to use and the best thing about it is that it saves the images at their full resolution, so no image size limit for this software.
Skype is another
must have application for the
new iPhone 3G
S, because it allows you to make free Internet calls, so you can communicate with your loved ones for free.
Files Lite is an application that allows you to take your documents anywhere with you. You can view them and then transfer them to any compatible PC or Mac. You can connect your iPhone with the computer via WiFi and then all you have to do is drag and drop the files from your smarphone to the computer.
The free version has a storage limit of 200 MB, but if you want to have unlimited storage limit you can purchase a full version of Files Lite. The application supports most Microsoft Office documents and also Apple iWork documents.
Backgrounds is nice application that allows you to choose from over 10.000 unique backgrounds for your iPhone 3GS or iPhone 3G. You can choose from 30 categories like: Flowers, Technology, Cities, Hight, Fantasy, Animals, Funny, Cars, Water, Sunset and more.
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010 |
Not everyone is a fun of sidebar gadgets, but if you are one of those persons who find them very useful, in the next lines we are going to present a few Windows Vista sidebar gadgets that can make your work on the computer easier.
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The first sidebar gadget for Windows Vista is zCalendar. This small application is a great replacement for the original Vista calendar because it provides more functionally than the original one. The appearance of this gadget is similar to the Vista calendar, but the features are not the same.
With zCalenadar you can make notes regarding your important events and appointments and when you have an appointment the calendar will alert you with a sound of your choosing. The gadgets highlights the days when you have an event, so you can see them better. You can download this gadget for free from Windows Live Gallery.
The Digital World Clock is a useful sidebar gadget if you work with persons from different parts of the country or the world, because you are able to see the time in their zones. The gadget gives you the possibility to name the clocks you add and you can add as many clocks as you want. You can download it for free from Windows Live Gallery.
ProWeather Gadget for
Windows Vista is a cool
sidebar gadget that shows you a lot of information is a small space. If you want to know only the location and the temperature, the gadget displays this information is a very small space, but when you click the arrow at the bottom, the widgets slides out a lot more information like: chance of rain, sunset time and sunrise time, visibility, pressure, wind speed, wind direction, air humidity and more.
When the gadget slides out you also get a full 10-day forecast and you have the possibility to set two cities and you switch between them. The gadget supports international weather stations, so it can be used by everyone all over the world.
Another useful
sidebar gadget is the ZipGadget that allows you to find the zip code you are looking for in US. The gadget will display the zip code for any US mailing address; all you have to do is to type the address and to click the “Get Zip” button. This small widget gives you the possibility to copy the zip code and to paste it into another application.
The Language Translator is a small and compact gadget that uses the Google translator to help you find meaning to the words you don’t know. All you have to do is to type a phrase into the top box of the gadget and than select the language. It is easy to use and it is very useful. You can download it for free from Windows Live Gallery.
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010 |
Windows Live Gallery is the place where you will find the coolest and the most useful free Windows gadgets. Here you find everything from security and safety gadgets to games gadgets.
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The WeatherCenter is a free Windows gadget that checks current forecast and weather anywhere in the world. The updates of the forecast are made automatically by the gadget and the information is provided by seven different sources: NOAA (for USA only), WeatherBug, The WeatherNetwork, MSN, Weather Underground, AccuWeather and The Weather Channel. The WeatherCenter has also the following built-in languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Japanese, Hebrew, German and English.
System Monitor is a free Windows gadget created by BuildAGadget.com. This is a small customizable tool that displays your system’s internal readings. The gadget includes the following information: time monitors, WiFi connections, Battery, IP, RAM and, of course, CPU. The gadget works great with Windows 7 and it also supports quad core and dual core.
Vista Calculator is a free gadget for the Windows Vista operating system and it is a simple and small calculator that can be transformed into a scientific calculator. The scientific calculator has the following features: pi number, cos, sin, tan, power of 2, power of 3, factorial, log and ln. This small gadget also allows you to change between radians and degrees using the settings from the menu.
Traffic by Bing Maps is a free Windows gadget created by Microsoft. This gadget is very useful if you don’t want to find yourself stuck in traffic and miss that important appointment or meting. The gadget uses real-time traffic conditions from your area and includes cities across US and Canada. The gadget works very well and you will find it on Windows Live Gallery.
CTcontrol is a time and date gadget with the following features: shows the date (day of the week, month and year), displays the quarter of the year and displays digital time and internet Beat Time. It also includes: countdown till next year, timer function and alarm clock for 24 h. CTcontrol supports the following languages: Norwegian, French, Dutch, German and English.
FreeHD is a free Windows gadget that allows you to watch WebTV and to listen to WebRadios on your sidebar. The full screen option is also available and you can also add and play your own media. You can also create your own playlists and you can schedule the gadget for recordings. The gadget is very easy to install and it works only on Windows Vista.
AutoShutdown is a cool and small gadget that allows you to quickly log off, restart or shutdown your computer. You can set the time you want for this actions and you can choose from different interface styles. The gadget works very well and it easy to use. You will find it on Windows Live Gallery and it is free to download.
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