DVDBlender is a sofware that allows you to sort your files and folders automatically into DVD sized, burnable folders. It will sort the files and folders efficiently to use the minimum amount of DVDs and maximise the space used on each DVD. The software then helps you quickly sort your files to suit burning to discs. DVDBlender is lightweight and requires the .NET framework. Download DVDBlender...

Are you having problems trying to keep multiple copies of folders on different computers updated? Drag and drop a folder onto the left box. Alternatively, click on the box and browse for the folder using the explorer. Drag another folder and drop it on the right box. Click on the Sync! button which appears! http://code.google.com/p/nsync/ nsync is a free, open source software that performs synchronization...

Excited about the release dates of your favorite software (Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator CS5)? Here’s a list of upcoming software release dates that us geeks would like to mark out on our calendars!   Visual Studio 2010 – 22nd March 2010 Current Status: RC (release candidate) http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx Microsoft...

Have you always pressed Ctrl+Alt+Delete to get the task manager? In Windows 7 or Vista you’re brought to a login screen like page offering you multiple options. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Escape gets you directly to the task manager instead. Here, you can close applications in the applications tab and processes in the processes tab, but be careful which processes you close. In general, Windows doesn’t...

In my opinion, a revolutionary set of ideas that if adopted and implemented well will change computing we know. Now we interact with the computer using the mouse and multitouch. This expands on multitouch! See the video after the break. 10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

Google has recently purchased 3 companies and expect to receive great new services from our friendly search giant soon! Picnik is an online image editor, DocVerse enables you to work on Google Docs(and have its collaboration functionality) from within Office and Aardvark provides ‘human’ answers to your questions. Here we take a look at these 3 services! Picnik Picnik makes your photos fabulous...

Ever needed a solution for putting some order to the huge amount of media files (pictures, videos and music) you have on your computer? Want to create reports? Want to record what you’ve loaned out? DataCrow is a multiplatform (Java based) software which helps you upkeep your media collection. http://www.datacrow.net/index.html Data Crow is the ultimate media cataloger and media organiser. Always...

Ever wanted to access files on your iPhone or iPod Touch like how you do on a USB flash drive? iPhone Explorer is a free software that just works. No need to sync with iTunes anymore, which can be troublesome sometimes. Just drag and drop files in to this software and it transfers them for you. It’s compatible with Mac OSX and Windows. Want to put your iPhone or iPod Touch in disk mode? Use an...

A while back, I saw a video of this cross-platform(Java) project from MIT called Sikuli that allowed you to automate anything by just taking screenshots and writing simple scripts. I was amazed by the idea and implementation. It’s powerful and useful to automate mundane tasks which involve GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) and also allows you to simply send Sikuli scripts to help your friends and...

Ever needed information on the different versions of Microsoft .NET that are installed on a machine. Both programmers and end users would find it useful to know what versions of the .NET framework is on their computers so they know which software can be run. Here’s a useful tool from ASoft to do so. .NET Version Detector 2010 Download: http://www.asoft.be/prod_netver.html [ASoft] ASoft .NET Version...