I’m a fan of free and open source software. Free software is great nowadays and I think that its possible to do almost everything by using free and open source software. The main question is “which software I have to use to replace a commercial product?”. The answer is simple: “just go to AlternativeTo.net “. The site AlternativeTo [...]

After a quite big period using Dropbox and checking similar services  on the  web I’m coming  back with a new review: There is already a  review for this service which describes the features but if you want an animated guide go to http://www.dropbox.com/tour and watch the animated presentation. Dropbox rocks! Really! Its the most complete file backup and synch [...]

My favorite media player software is Winamp… and this seems to be so typical. I’m addicted to use lot of free Winamp plug-ins and get new features on this awesome player. Ten years ago I experienced for the first time the great graphics of a special visualization plug-in for Winamp called “Geiss”. This great piece [...]

The site SumoPaint offers a great online application. Sumo Paint is a close to complete web based image editor. You can open it in seconds you an load images from your computer edit them and save them back to computer. The interface offers a complete set of tools such brush, line tool, crop tool, magic wand and many many [...]

I just downloaded the latest trial software available from Nero site. To be honest ? never look to system requirements berofe I install a program to my system. So I decided to install this package and check the latest additions. The first steps was quite fast and the interface is new and I though that [...]

We must face it. A bunch versions of windows OS appeared and still some things are simpler, or can be done only in command mode. Windows apparently cannot get rid of the “DOS mode”. We still have to get network diagnostics (Ping, Ipconfig, Arp, etc) using the black command window. This is not always bad, [...]

The site http://www.getdropbox.com comes with a really impressive service. The Dropbox (cross platform) service can synchronize, update and store the files between two or more computers ever between MAC, PC or LINUX based computers. The service can even check the files or the folders for changes and keep a history (with a restore previous version [...]

It may sound common but when you face it is really scary! Yesterday I powered up one of my extrernal HDD’s (the one with the videos) and the following message appeared : or As I mentioned above the HDD was full of videos and pictures and it was NTFS formatted. “WTF happent”, I said, but [...]