10 Mac applications that promise to improve your productivity

Featuring some of the most useful applications that will definitely help you improve your productivity on Mac. These utilities are available totally free of charge and can be downloaded right away. SketchBox SketchBox is a multifunctional sticky notes manager for your Mac Desktop. Unlike other Sticky notes it doesn’t limit itself to just writing text but you can even draw and set individual reminders for each sticky to use them as visual alarm clock. SketchBox Sticky notes consists of three... Read More

Access Google Analytics from your Desktop

I started blogging in December 2007 and soon realized that there was something I was missing. I started making a few bucks with Adsense, but there was just one thing that kept bothering me: “Where the hell my traffic is coming from and how can I track my visitors down?” Then I stumbled upon Google Analytics, which turns out to be one of the best ways to learn which online marketing initiatives are cost effective and see how visitors actually interact with your site. It comes totally free... Read More

24 Useful Applications for any New PC

When I was working at the call center a year back I use to setup lots of computers there. It has always been a pain to download individual programs for each system according to the users requirement. To avoid wasting time I had a few useful software always saved in my USB stick. Recently I’ve come across something that is way more useful than I thought it would be. A free 24-in-one installer pack that allows you to install almost all the necessary applicatons a new PC should have. Smart Installer... Read More

Despite Poor Economy, Google Shows Financial Growth in Q1

Google released its Q1 2009 results last week and (as usual) everyone was paying attention. Investors, analysts, SEMs, etc.; there are few tech companies that draw this much attention when it’s time to report their earnings. Considering the many questions looming about the state of the economy and what may lie ahead, all eyes were fixed on Google as it did what it has always done. Google beat analyst estimates and reported a net income of $1.42bn last quarter, up from the same period last year... Read More

The Success & Failure of GTA Chinatown Wars on Nintendo DS

Over at Take-Two, the strategists have a conundrum to figure out. They have produced the best-reviewed game of all time for the Nintendo DS. And no one is buying it. Obviously, there is a notable disparity going on. Take-Two released “Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the newest game in the series about a month ago for Nintendo DS. The game has sold fewer than 90,000 units per the recent sales stats. For people unfamiliar with the gradation of game sales numbers, I will simplify: the game bombed... Read More

All-in-one Nettops reviving desktop market

Nettops did not exist a year ago, but are now the hottest group in the desktop market after several Atom-powered PC’s debuted at CES in January. Sharp looking units packing less power than traditional Windows desktops are now dominating the market formerly ruled by Apple’s $1,200 iMac, but at a significantly lower price. They’re part of the new generation of computers called Nettops, an offshoot of Netbooks. Nettops are usually powered by Atom processors that run either Windows... Read More

The Problem with Frame-Wrapping URL Shorteners

A new URL shortener from Digg wraps your website in a Digg frame instead of taking users directly to your website. This results in a number of obstacles for the website owner. Digg is not alone in utilizing this process. A platform allowing companies to manage Twitter profiles, HootSuite, uses ow.ly to shorten URL’s in much the same method. StumbleUpon will soon release su.pr which may also make use of the same frame-wrapping tactics. The Digg Toolbar Let’s go through some of the obstacles... Read More

The Next Wave of Computing: One Device to Rule them All?

With the help of ‘smartclients,’ gaming may be the leader into computing’s future. The tech world is currently dislocated. The gaming market is fragmented and the PC concept seems to have no clear direction or leader. Developers and users want a return back to a simpler time where one device could be used for multiple functions instead of a collection of new, complicated devices that are incompatible with everything else. One possible solution to gaming’s problems, Onlive,... Read More

The Controversy of Six Days in Fallujah

Imagine if they had video games back in the early 1940s. Now imagine if they released Medal of Honor or similar World War II video game back then. Ask yourself how weird it would be to playing a game where soldiers are killing Nazis when the real thing is actually happening overseas, probably at that moment. Not that little kids weren’t playing a World War II version of cowboys and Indians while their fathers were fighting the war in Europe and Asia. I suppose there is an instinct of game-making... Read More

Technology Stress and How to Overcome it

Do I even need to ask how many have experienced frustration and anguish that have occurred because of the supposed easy-to-use plug-and-play application that didn’t work? How about when you print a document, only to find out that the hard copy that comes out of the printer looks nothing like the document on your computer screen? Just today, I was printing out my tax returns and other pertinent information for insurance reasons, and I could not get my wireless printer to churn out my vital... Read More

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