YouTube these days can be considered as a massive repository of video of all kinds that can be imagined. However, it is a common scenario (at least for me) that I discover a nice video, and I click on the YouTube link only to discover that that specific video is restricted in my area (for example in a specific country). This is particularly true for many music videos that I wanted to see, and was disappointed to see that they are only available to the US audience. If you have ever been to this frustrating ...

We have already brought you some leaked insights on Windows 8, and now Win7China is reporting some new leaked screenshots of the highly anticipated Windows 8 OS. Furthermore, they have some nice info to share with us. First and foremost according to their info, Windows 8 will include a feature to restore the OS to it’s factory default setting in just 2 minutes, in case you messed up with something or just want to start with a neat clean system. Furthermore, even if you do decide to install Windows ...

Well the title say it all. This video is about an experimentation from a guy that started an upgrade path from the Windows 1 to Windows 7. In the path starting from Windows 1  > Windows 2 > Windows 3 > Windows 3.1 > Windows 95 > Windows 98 > Windows 98 SE > Windows 2000  > Windows XP SP2 > Windows Vista > Windows 7. So, it started from humble Windows 1 to 3D glory of Windows 7 covering all the intermediate operating systems. He used the Doom 2 and Monkey Island ...

With Windows Vista and 7 Microsoft has introduced and shiny new version of the Movie Maker (ships with Windows Live Tools) that has an improved GUI, simpler design. In other words it is easier to use for the new people. However, in the process Microsoft has stripped some critical features from the software in favor of simplicity. This is a move which many old users of Windows Movie Maker didn’t like. Some of the features that were removed include timeline and audio edits along with the ability ...

You know we love Android particularly the level of customizability it provides right from the word go even without doing any rooting stuff. Although, the hardware limitations or flaws that stem from the device manufacturers is another story. However, lately these Android phones are getting crazy powerful as there seems to be a real battle going-on currently to bring the most powerful Android phone on the market. But the question one may ask is that when you DO own such a powerful small little device ...

We all know and love Dropbox cloud storage service right? We have already covered Dropbox extensively here and in the past also mentioned many hacks, tips & tricks to make most of it. If you also happen to be the owner of an iOS device such as iPhone then don’t forget to download the Dropbox client for iPhone! This official client for Dropbox although nice does have some serious limitations. For example, it only allows to upload media files such as images and videos to your online Dropbox ...

We have already covered cool Handbrake application here at Inspired Geek. It is a video conversion software that supports most of the popular video formats in use today. One of the strength’s of the program is a straight-forward and clean GUI that is intuitive to use particularly for the new users. However, you can enhance it even further by using a free software called DropFolders that adds the automated video file conversions based on a set of watched folders.Actually, DropFolders is an ...

Have you ever experienced a slow or shuttering video performance of flash in Firefox ? If you are using latest Firefox 4.0 betas then it might not be a problem, but for some of the users that are on the older Firefox 3.x versions they might have experienced this problem. If you are one of those unlucky guys experiencing this shuttering or slow flash video performance, then we have a solution that might improve the situation or even completely eliminate the problem. Basically, when you are running ...

Voice Search is a Google Chrome extension that allows to perform search queries in Chrome browser by speech instead of traditional way using the keyboard to input the queries. This might be useful for some people that are feeling futuristic or not in so much mood to use their fingers too much. Extension shows a microphone icon in the extension area in the Chrome, but also for the search boxes in the HTML 5 based websites . To perform a search just click on the icon and speak the word or query you ...

A while ago, we ran a feature on top ten free antivirus software for windows 7. If you remember, Avast ranked in the middle on that list. However, things may be changing now with releases of official version of Avast 6 which has improved drastically. As in the previous beta release, Avast 6 features an interesting new feature called Sandbox. What that does is that if any content is suspicious, it will be run in sandbox, a protected environment, where no harm can be done to the OS or your precious ...