Microsoft has released another alternative to synchronizing mobile phone data to your computer.
The Microsoft Phone Data Manager is an improvement over the old Windows Mobile Device Manager or ActiveSync in that you can use it on non-Windows Mobile phones. Additionally, it also allows you to sync with Windows Live Services. This means your data can be made accessible from any web browser.
You can give the Windows Phone Data Manager a try by downloading it at this link.
Tags: Microsof, Phone Data Manager
Categories: Applications
One of the most popular freeware image editors now has a new version.
Gimp has recently released version 2.5.4, which fixes a number of items while also adding a new feature.
First up are the fixes. The new version has fixed some user interface bugs. The fixes include the ability to recover docks and toolboxes if the window menu is accidentally closed. Users can also lock the tabs to the dock in order to prevent it from being accidentally dragged out. Additionally, the presets can be saved at the color tools. The application’s help system has also been improved and there is now online browsing support. A good addition to the application is a blank placeholder window where files that are being edited can be dragged and dropped for easy access.
You can download Gimp 2.5.4 at this link.
Tags: Gimp
Categories: Applications
As far legally downloadable apps and utilities go, Google has been providing some of the best in the last few years.
Another cool addition to their expanding line of applications is Google Chrome, the search engine giant’s first web browser. The new browser is a good example of simplicity. There are no excessive buttons or toolbars, what you get is a clean interface that maximizes the available space.
As a logical extension of its design aesthetic, Chrome introduces the omnibar. What it basically did is to transform the address bar into a multifunction tool where you not only type in the website address you want to visit, it also serves as a search bar. One cool thing is that when you use the built-in search function of a website, the omnibar will remember it and the next time you can do that in-site search through the bar itself.
The best thing about Chrome is that it is open source so expect a lot of development going on from third parties.
Tags: browser, Google Chrome
Categories: Applications
The RIAA is conducting its investigations on illegal music downloads just like the Salem witch trials. Paranoia and a McCarthyist attitude are being propagated by the organization. It has come to a point that college networks are relentlessly monitored by the RIAA in order to choose which unsuspecting college students to victimize next.
It’s a little known fact that colleges are getting involved in this operation without them wanting to. They also expend resources and manpower just to make sure that the subjects of the lawsuits are truly the ones guilty.
But they’ve had enough.
More and more colleges are now refusing to help the RIAA for a job that they are not compensated on. The common consensus is that their energies are better spent on actually taking care of their students rather than helping a dinosaur organization.
Tags: RIAA, US colleges
Categories: Downloading Legally, Random Thoughts
