We have seen all kinds of Kinect hacks ranging from playing Street Fighter IV on the PC to the controlling navigation of 3D CT Scan images by Surgeons. But all of these were after all Kinect hacks strictly speaking as Microsoft neither officially supported these novel uses of their technology nor released any official software take advantage of Kinect hardware using Windows computers. But now it seems the tables has turned and Microsoft has just announced they will release an official Windows’s ...

Chrometa is a time tracking software that might be useful to you if you are interested to track the time spent in specific applications at your office, or as freelancer to charge money later on from the clients based on hourly rate for example. Or may be you are just curious to know the time that you spent(waste) on the computer browsing Internet, or perhaps on Skype or Facebook, gaming etc. This is a perfect tool for any of these tasks or many other tasks with the similar objectives. Real strength ...

WinX DVD Author is one of the popular shareware software available for Windows that allows to create/author DVDs from the video files in just few quick and easy steps. Authored DVDs are compatible with most of the standalone DVD players available. Good news is that this same software is now available free of charge from developers website! It is an easy way to assemble a home video DVD from video files, camcorder, webcam, YouTube and personalize it with DVD chapter menu & subtitles. As soon ...

How many times it happens that you download  a lot of files from the Internet via some download manger such Orbit or some other and all of these different kind of files start to buildup in you downloads folder? At least this is a common scenario for me as I download a lot of files via Orbit and this includes software, videos, mp3 files and even documents etc. All of these different kind of files start to get mixed up in the downloads folder without any organization. It would have been nice ...

Images that are captured from the digital cameras and mobile cameras etc. contain a wealth of information such as EXIF data, image properties, geo-tagging information etc. JPEGSnoop is a small tool that has been written exclusively to read and extract this plethora of information and bring to the interested person. Digital cameras after taking the snapshots usually save them in the JPEG format, but the type of compression engine/algorithm used varies widely from one manufacturer to another, and even ...

Sometimes a user may want to extract audio from a video file for a variety of reasons. For example if it is a video lecture than it might be useful to only get the audio to listen and save some space on the HDD in the mean while. Similarly, someone might be interested in extracting the audio from a free music video to listen on a portable media gadget (i.e. iPod Touch). There are a number of options available out there, but one of the very nice software that I have come across is called Free Audio ...

iPhone Folders is nice little application that can be used to mount your iPhone as removable drive in the Windows. After installation you’ll find it in My Computer folder. It supports full windows shell integration including support for windows search, file copy engine support, explorer property system support and launch files directly from the folders etc. If you have non-jailbroken phone only media folder will be accessible. However, in the case of a jailbroken device complete root access ...

Some time ago, we had already covered how you can selectively cut and save your favorite scenes from .vob files (extension for the MPEG2 formatted videos as in DVD). The best part about that was that there was no need to re-encode, and a favorite scene could be extracted as it is without the loss of quality. However, if you want something that works in the opposite direction i.e. allows to join or merge multiple .vob files together – we have another option in the form of VOBMerge. It is a dead ...

Skype is one of the most popular VoIP applications these days mainly because it is much easier to setup and use. Furthermore, it supports many extra features such video conferencing, file transfer, screen sharing and client for many popular mobile devices. However, one of the limitations of the Skype is that you cannot login in to multiple accounts simultaneously in case you have more than one account. There might be many reasons for that – for example an account for the work related contacts in ...

Microsoft has just released the first release candidate for Internet Explorer 9. Even though Internet Explorer 9 massively improves upon its prior version, times have changed. Upon its release, it will face stiff competition at from Mozilla FireFox and Google Chrome. Even though this is not the final release, it gave a good glimpse of what is in store for the future. Here we do a quick Internet Explorer vs Chrome vs FireFox comparison and see which browser comes out at the top! Speed: The big one. ...