October 31, 2006

Weather Watcher

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Weather Watcher from Singer’s Creations is an elegant, ad-free program to monitor weather by zip code. You can minimize it to the system tray where it displays the current temperature of your area. Hovering over the tray icon gives a summary of the current weather, while double clicking the icon opens the program [...]

October 20, 2006

Dump Real Player: Real Alternative

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Do you ever get tired to entering your registration info for Real Player every time you install it? Then you get the email “Thanks for installing real player… etc. etc.” Might I recommend Real Alternative? This no nags, ad free program includes Media Player Classic which works in conjunction with the codecs [...]

October 15, 2006

Free Online Nintendo Emulator: vNES

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Looking to waste a few minutes hours? vNES is a nice emulator written in Java. Currently there are 270+ games available. Super Mario is definitely my favorite.

Happy gaming!

October 6, 2006

Video Podcasts to Go (on a Pocket PC)

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I was looking to transfer a video podcast (specifically The Daily Eagle) to my Axim x50v. Here’s what I needed to make it happen.
1) The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP): plays a large variety of video and audio content including DivX, MPG4, AVI, MP3. Sure beats Windows Media Player!
2) FFMPEG plugin: to decode [...]

October 2, 2006

Life on a Flash Drive

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As a college student I do a lot of work in computer labs between classes. It’s handy to have preferences from applications saved so I don’t have to adjust settings everytime I want to use a particular program. With a 2GB flash drive (you can get one for around $30 after rebates from [...]