What a great idea. This little app, base on the time of day, adjusts the brightness of your display and even adds a tint to ease your eyes
Now all they have to do is integrate power-management and energy-saving with this and surely they deserve a Nobel peace prize?
Google are famous for their secrecy, and ability to drop huge bombshells on their competition.
It has long been rumoured, and denied, that Google were working on their own OS for PC.
With the launch of Android for mobiles, people were distracted, perhaps Google had decided to leave the desktop alone and focus on mobile devices?
Never underestimate Google.
Android has now been compiled to run on a Netbook.
Next stop your desktop PC.
It was his birthday yesterday, the team celebrated on the Friday show with a special version of Take That’s The Greatest Day, reworded by Comedy Dave as The Greatest DJ…
A nice parody I think you’d agree, but better still, Gary Barlow re-recorded the track with the new words, and then recorded a special video as well.
This is quite awesome, at the time of posting 20,629 people have seen this.
It’s also in HQ, so hit that HQ button in the bottom right corner for crystal clear audio!
Like Diskeeper but not keen on the price?
IOBit Smart Defrag is here to save the day. Defragging your hard-disk in the background whilst you work.
A simple idea executed brilliantly.
HTC have officially unveiled the second Android-based phone at the MWC in Barcelona.
The plan for Google world domination proceeds according to schedule… oh, and it looks really good…
Finally after all these years, the mobile phone manufacturers have agreed to standardise on a single charger for all new phones.
Mark the date in your diaries, by January 2012 “most” (I love that word) mobile phones will use the Micro-USB interface currently a favourite for Windows Mobile and some Nokia handsets.
Why wait or upgrade? Get the look and feel of Windows 7 now, on your XP installation.
The Seven Remix XP will load all the Windows 7 icons, animations and fonts into your XP installation.
However, I don’t think Apple will be quaking in their boots after seeing this at the Mobile World Congress today.
Mark Thomas, Britain's premier commentator on social hypocrisy is back, this time focusing his attention on the banking crisis.
http://www.markthomasinfo.com/section_audiovideo/
He starts off by interviewing a former trader Sargon Nissan, and its amazing hearing some of the revelations and hidden truths.
http://www.markthomasinfo.com/section_audiovideo/mp3s/sargonnissan.mp3
You can also subscribe to it via iTunes Podcasts.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=303089356
For instance, do you remember during the US election the Republicans blamed the subprime crisis on Democratic president Clinton removing regulations on the banks. Well its interesting to hear just what that regulation was, and the real reason for it being lifted. The fact it was lifted wasn't the problem, it was the banks unexpected immoral behaviour without that regulation.
Or how Citigroup faced going bust, was bailed out with billions from the US government, and a few weeks later ordered a bunch of Learjets for its board and then spent $400m sponsoring the New York Mets new baseball field. http://www.marktalk.com/blog/archives/2371
You’ve gotta feel bad for the banks, well you wouldn’t want to feel good for them would you?
Came across this at the weekend. Excellent online money manager that is currently in beta but developing fast.
Think of it like Egg’s Money Manager with a bit of intelligence. Rather than just giving you access to your accounts, it performs analysis on your transactions giving you a picture of where your money is going.
They have very good security, but are still in beta, and still adding support for all the banks, so don’t be surprised if your bank isn’t on there. But if it isn’t just drop them an email and they’ll get onto it.
Guys and gals...
I'm starting up a petition to see if we can get TiVo to bring a version of their brilliant Australian DTT PVR to the UK.
Though obviously with a better looking fascia on the box.
To put it simply, it's like Sky+ for Freeview but with more bells and whistles and easier to use.
You can register your opinion at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/TiVo4UK
Thanks in advance for your help!
-Bix
DIGSBY – I bang on about this to people all the time, it is the standard for all IMs to achieve. It integrates all the popular IM networks, pulls in POP3 email, Facebook and now Twitter.
Tucking all this away in the corner of the screen, rather than having multiple browser windows open, you can quickly check the fast facts of your online existence.
The developers are also constantly refining and expanding it – updates download and install on startup. Report a problem and you get a response usually within the same hour.
One of the excellent Windows extensions offered by Extensoft - find the files which are tying up all your precious disk space!
The long-awaited new Sky+ HD EPG changes are on their way soon according to Digital Spy.
Whilst this is excellent news for Sky+ HD owners, what about us “bog standard” Sky+ users? At the very least can they eradicate the bugs we currently live with?
Once again, I’m left wishing for a twin-tuner Freeview return to the UK for TIVO.
News in that BSkyB have hung on to their main live Premiership matches, 4 out of the 6 packages – so no surprise there. Really does anyone else in UK broadcasting have the money (or balls) to take them on?
The two remaining packages which Setanta currently holds are still up for grabs. Setanta are in the bid and rumour has it ESPN may be having a look. More worrying for Setanta though is that BSkyB can still buy one of these, which would severly damage Setanta’s current offering.
BBC have hung onto highlights, so Match of the Day is safe.
Personally speaking, I love the music of Joe Cocker, and I’m a big Heroes fan. So this tickles my sensabilities…
And while you’re here
BatteryBar puts a handy battery power indicator in your Windows taskbar. Hover over it and get some nice detailed info.
Free version gives you basic info, Pro version lets you have alerts and notifications.
You know what its like when someone invents a solution to a problem you didn’t even realise you had?
And now all you can think about is how much you want it.
Admit it – you want one…
Crikey, how small can they get? I’ve had KVM switches bigger than this!
NVIDIA’s Ion reference platform has been revealed, and boy is it small!
They’ve tested it on video playback and it can handle 1080p smoothly with only 20% CPU usage, and of course comes HDMI equipped.
Aw bless her…
Scarlett Johansson on life’s mysteries.
She’s also like to know where the Sun goes at night, and where babies come from…
