I recently had to transcribe a number of video interviews into text. This turned out to be much more of a labor intensive project than I thought, and it quickly dawned on me that the process can be vastly improved via a few technological tweaks. This posting aims to present a step by step tutorial →
How to Stream Videos From Your Home PC to your Android: an Odyssey
Do you have videos stored on your PC and want to view them on your tablet or other Android device without the hassle of copying and possibly converting them? Well look no further. I too wanted this and I set out to find out how to do it for no cost. What I found was →
How to access the US Google Play Android app market from outside the US
If you’ve ever found that an app you were interested in was only available in the US or some other countries but not your own, or if you’re disappointed with the tired ‘local’ apps that are forced on you every time you open Google Play, then read on; this post will show you how to →
Create a text adventure and publish as a desktop or mobile app for free, with Quest
Do you remember games like Zork, Beuracracy, Infidel, and all those other great text adventures? Remember choose your own adventure novels? Ever wished you could create awesome interactive stories like that, and better? If so, you should check out Quest, free software that can help you out in looking back on those games and looking →
How to insert live web sites inside PowerPoint presentations
This post is for all those people that give Powerpoint presentations that are forced to jump to a browser whenever they want to demonstrate a live web site. The fact of the matter is that it is possible to display live web sites from within PowerPoint, using a simple powerpoint add-on. We show you how →
Help! My email will no longer download on my Gmail Android app
I recently had a problem with my email no longer downloading on my Android Gmail app. Interestingly, only one of my two accounts stopped downloading email, while the other one was working. It was a very annoying problem, and after spending considerable time fiddling with the settings and searching the internet, I found the rather →
How to fix missing thumbnail previews for image files in Windows
This happened to me: I installed a new image-related freeware to test it, and all of my image thumbnail previews disappeared, to be replaced by icons. If this happens to you you know it can be quite frustrating, especially if you are unsure as to what might have caused it in the first place. The →
Make and share your very own ‘text + images’ screensaver, with MPQ Builder
Does the idea of building your very own screensaver using your very own text and visuals sound appealing to you? If so, then check out MPQ Builder, a program that will let you combine images and text and package them in a setup file as an installable screensaver for Windows. ‘MPQ Builder’ is free for →
How to send ebooks and documents to Kindle or Kindle mobile app WIRELESSLY
So you have some ebooks or documents on hard drive, but how to transfer these to your Kindle or your iPad Kindle app or other device? Typically, you would need to attach the device to the PC via a USB cable, but wouldn’t be easier to simply to send them wirelessly? This posting will show →
How to Change default Apps in Android
Want to change app defaults in Android? This post will discuss three ways to do it: manually via the system settings, using a free app that can manage all of the default actions from a single place, and using a free app whose sole purpose is to let you change the default launcher on demand.
How to create and share your own customized Chrome themes
Are you one of those folks that loves to customize the heck out of everything? From your custom cell phone cover to your airbrushed t-shirts and everything in between and beyond, there’s a way to customize just about anything these days. Browsers are no exception; Chrome, for instance, allows you to use any of a →
How to download videos from Hulu: a step by step guide (updated)
Here’s a step by step guide to downloading videos from Hulu using free software Freemake Video Downloader. This post updated Oct 23rd 2012. Note that while other tools were mentioned in previous versions of this article (e.g. Streamtransport), Hulu had changed their encryption since, and at the time of writing this article Freemake Video Downloader →
