VLC is, without a shadow of doubt, one of the most popular media players available. Combining a sleek, simplistic interface with the ability to play seemingly any audio or video file, its underbelly of rich features have seen the application become an essential utility to the masses.
Aside from being a great music player, iTunes is an integral part of an iPhone, iPad and iPod user's digital life. This is all well and good if you're on iOS of course, allowing the most harmonious of synchronization; and as of iOS 5 - wirelessly so - providing your iDevice is Wi-Fi compatible.
Microsoft's Kinect was originally launched as a novel way of playing games which took the motion control gaming of the Nintendo Wii and made it truly controller-free. Using a camera and microphone, the Kinect changed the way we interact with our Xbox 360s, though whether much more than a novelty or a gimmick remains to be seen.
Dropbox is amongst the most popular file-hosting and file-syncing services and for good reason: it syncs files seamlessly, works on a bunch of platforms and, in addition to the free 2GB space, the company gives away free space to users every once in a while.
If you're a Firefox user then you now have a new version to download, with the popular browser being updated to version 10.
To coincide nicely with the impressive educational announcements made today in New York, Apple have also released iTunes 10.5.3 which adds synchronization support for the newly announced interactive books.
Whenever we sit at our desktops at the start of a new day, we usually open a bunch of the same applications – what we would call our staple diet in terms of computing.
There are some awesome web pages out there. Not wanting to be big headed or anything, but we like to think that we manage to come up with the odd pearler here every once in a while, too. But sometimes you just don't have time to read that long-form article. Sometimes you just need to actually do some work at, you know, work.
With 3G and 4G connections being what they are, many turn to their iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices for a little on-the-go backup internet. Unfortunately, despite many carriers offering unlimited web access, unauthorized internet tethering doesn’t come as part of the deal, and some – namely AT&T – have been swiftly altering consumers’ packages to include tethering for those caught surfing via third-party devices.
You just can't argue with cold, hard facts. One such fact is that the Apple keyboards in both their wired and wireless guises are absolutely gorgeous.
