Archive for March, 2006

Yahoo! Mail Beta Update

Yahoo! Mail is slowly rolling out a new Beta interface to users. The new interface touts Ajax support for a “rich client” feel, as well as some of the latest design patterns like tabbed browsing, and autocomplete. What does that mean to you?

Fetch iTunes artwork with Clutter

Album artwork comes with every purchase from the iTunes Music Store. If you don’t purchase directly from the iTunes Music Store, but still import your CD’s into iTunes, you’ll need a “quick” way to insert the album artwork, for each song.

It’s too cumbersome to scan in artwork from the actual liner notes, or even to get the artwork from Amazon.com, every time you import a new CD.

Clutter takes care of all of this, for us.

Tech on the Cheap

A technology enthusiast always has more products and services to buy than he or she can possibly afford.

This article is designed to give you some tips and start a discussion around ways to buy “Tech on the Cheap.” A variety of methods will help you save money: discount, deal, and coupon websites, price comparisons, eBay, and rebates, but certainly visitors to this site have many more suggestions. Please leave a comment describing your most frequently used methods for saving money on technology.

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Convert QuickTime Videos to AVI for Free

After taking some short video clips with my Nikon Coolpix 4300 I wanted to splice them together into a small production. The problem was that my camera only records in QuickTime, and my editing software doesn’t accept that format. So the seemingly simple task of converting the .MOV files to a workable format (such as .AVI) began. I quickly learned that most conversion programs are not free, and the demos typically have a banner at the bottom of the converted file advertising their product.

Online storage solutions: Box.net

The internet has increasingly become a place to store and share files, without restriction to size limitations, computer operating system, or proximity. Many services have jumped in front, to try an offer a solution for sharing files of any size, on any computer, and anywhere in the world.

Part 2: 10 Ways to Manage and Synchronize Bookmarks

In Part 1 of 10 Ways to Manage and Synchronize Bookmarks, I examined a number of web services and applications to store, manage, and synchronize bookmarks. This article will cover even more options, so that you can choose one that works best for you without going through the trouble of installing each application on your own machine. As you read about these different services, think about what is most important to you when it comes to bookmarking. At a high level, it is probably features or speed.