Yahoo! Go beta
Submitted on April 28th, 2006 by admin
Filed under Reviews and Audio and Video and Windows
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Yahoo has finally come out with their own all in oneDVR/media software for your PC. I’ve tinkered around a little bit and it’s pretty slick. Very cool and eye appealing user interface but uses quite a bit of your computers resources. Overall this Yahoo Go program can act as your DVR, music player, photo and video player. What I didn’t like was the menu system. It only has a “Back” button which becomes tedious to use once your going through a huge list of folders. They need to actually put a “Home” or a “Menu” button on every page so that it can take your right back to the main menu. Also I tried editing the album art cause it was displaying the wrong one and I couldn’t. By default it will use the image it sees in the directory/root closest to the music track. I didn’t have a tv tuner card to actually check out the DVR functionality of the program. If anyone can give me a heads up on it I’d much appreciate it. Once again go check it out yourself at yahooGo beta.
Parazz Mini Viewer
Submitted on April 20th, 2006 by admin
Filed under Storage and Reviews and The Mac Side and Windows
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I know, I KNOW!!! I’ve been talking about photo online services over and over again. But I am a photographer/graphics designer and I’m always constantly looking for places to store my photos. I’ve been using Parazz for awhile because they upgraded my account for free since I was a beta-tester. They’ve got lots of work to do but overall great service/concept.
They’ve recently rolled out a new feature called the “Parazz Mini Viewer”. It’s actually a small Flash driven photo album that you can post on your own website. I’ve posted mine on my blog. You can go check it out by clicking here. They’ve still got some bugs to work out, such as: none of the photos actually link out to the actual image. This service is a work in progress. Much to improve here but they are heading in a good direction. Check them out at www.parazz.com or stop by my album at www.parazz.com/albums/j5uh.
Zooomr
Submitted on April 19th, 2006 by admin
Filed under Storage and Reviews and Services
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Zooomr - I just started using this new online photo service about a month ago. Found it on Techcrunch blog. I like it but once again loads kinda slow!!! Tagging feature is awesome, I’d say it’s better than Flickr and Parazz. But I wish they had an uploading program for your desktop so you can just drag & drop photos into the uploader like Flickr and Parazz does. Also Zooomr offers you 50mbs monthly bandwidth. Thats 30 more mbs than Flickr. Check them out.
Hardware Review: VBox Cat’s Eye 150 HDTV tuner
Submitted on April 17th, 2006 by admin
Filed under Reviews and Hardware
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HDTV is becoming more and more mainstream these days. There are HDTV TV sets, antennas, pc cards, and your cable/satelite company should offer HDTV channels in a package. The difference between HDTV through your cable/satelite box and just a HDTV reciever is, HDTV through your cable/satelite company requires their box and cost extra on top of your digital cable/satelite package, and just using a HDTV reciever or PC add-on card makes the HDTV channels free since it’s OTA (over the air). Today we have the VBox Cat’s Eye 150 HDTV tuner to review. HDTV is great since you can watch all the local network channels in HD format and record them for later usage. HDTV is one of those things that we’d all love to have in our homes. Problem is HD hardware is too expensive for the average person.
Hardware Review: XTracpads Hybrid
Submitted on April 2nd, 2006 by admin
Filed under Reviews and Hardware
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Mouse pads are a piece of hardware that we need. Most people have moved to optical mice and feel that there is no need for a mouse pad. However there are many aftermarket mouse pads available on the market today designed for gamers, and designers alike. XTracpads is a well known maker of mouse pads. For those of you who don’t know who they are, you should try out one of their products. Today XTracpads sent us the Hybrid XTracpad for us to review. The Hybrid is unlike the rest of their lineup as it mixes the hard surface pads with the cloth ones. It’s like having the best of both worlds.
Hardware Review: NZXT Lexa Case
Submitted on March 1st, 2006 by admin
Filed under Reviews and Hardware
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NZXT is a smaller case company, with big ideas. These are the makers of the Nemesis Elite case that everyone liked. Now we are reviewing the Lexa case, which seems to be a case suited for everyone. There are a lot of cases on the market these days, so choosing one for yourself might be a hassle. Most people would like a case with a ton of features, lightweight, and excelent design. The Lexa fits into the Classic Series of NZXT’s cases. NZXT defined the Lexa as “perfect symmetry”, and I believe they got that right.
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Yahoo Widgets
Submitted on February 13th, 2006 by admin
Filed under Reviews and Productivity and Software and Windows
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Well I know Konfabulators been out forever but I never really looked into until yesterday night. As I was a Mac user for a short while, I really loved the “widgets” the OSX offered. When I sold my precious Powerbook away, I really missed that feature!!! So I took, yahoo owned now, konfabulator for a spin. I actually like!!! It does exactly what the widgets feature did on OSX but for PC. There are TONS of widgets out there if you check yahoo/widgets page. The program is very simple to install and get it running. It took me awhile to figure out how to have the widgets appear and disappear with just a push of a button.
1. Right click a widget and click Widget Properties.
2. Click Window tab and in the drop down selection “Level of Window”, select “Show Only In Heads Up Display”. You have to do this to ALL the widgets in order for it to hide and appear when you press the hot key. Next time you press “F8″ or any other hotkey you assign, the widgets will show up and hide.
A first look at Windows Mail Live
Submitted on January 23rd, 2006 by admin
Filed under Reviews and Email and Services
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So Microsoft is revamping Hotmail. They are changing the name to Windows Live Mail and going to a whole new interface. Luckily, I was fortunate enough to get invited to the beta so read on for a Tipmonkies’ first look at the new Windows Live Mail.
Yellowikis, the open business directory
Submitted on December 19th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Reviews and Resources and Services
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There have been a few different attempts at creating user-contributed business directories like the Yellow Pages on the web. One of my favorite examples is Judy’s Book which we covered a few months back. These services let people log in and add business in their areas along with letting members write reviews on those business so that others may find the information more easily. These services are great, but this type of information lends itself easily to a wiki, and it seems I’m not the only one who thinks so.
Yellowikis runs on the same software as sites like Wikipedia so those of you who are familiar with those sites, will feel right at home with Yellowikis. The wiki lets you find company profiles, contact numbers, location, and much more. It’s still relatively new so you may only find larger companies, but it’s still a very useful tool.
Review of multiuser blogging tools
Submitted on October 27th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Reviews and Resources and Software
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While most of you may keep blogs as personal diaries, I know at least a few of you have blogs which can be used as an important resource (I’ll count TipMonkies on the last category). If you have a multiuser blog, you may be looking for the best tool to manage your site. Blogsavvy has put together a review of multiuser blogging software which includes some of the more popular ones available. In case you’re wondering, WordPress MU got top honors. If you are looking for a good piece of blogging software, definitely check out their reviews.
