Try as I might I just can’t get along with Linux. It’s a great system to use, incredibly secure and becoming more user friendly with each incarnation but it lacks the programs that I have become accustomed to on a Windows system. OK, I’m sacrificing the peace of mind that my system is nigh on bulletproof but I want to use Photoshop! I want to use Dreamweaver and play the games I love. It is what I was taught on, it’s what I want from a computer.
I’m sure that in a previous life I’ve sure I’ve mentioned Replay Music the audio recording service but now there’s a new version out there and its just got even better.
Now before I begin I do not condone the acquisition of copyrighted material but I do believe that there are some occasions when a service like Replay Music is necessary.
If you’re not familiar with the past three incarnations of Replay Music then basically it’s a program that records audio streams that come through your PC and converts them to MP3 to keep for posterity.
One of it’s main functions (and please refer to my disclaimer) is that it can pick up streams from services such as Spotify. In older versions you had to tag an edit track information manually but via some sort of black magic it will now automatically pull track an album information from and online database as well as porting it straight into programs such as iTunes and Windows Media player.
It’s dead simple to use and no matter what audio stream is coming through your sound card whether it be YouTube, online radio it will nap it.
There’s even a free trial and the full license is actually less than 13 quid which is backed up with a 30 day money back guarantee. Might be worth a look.
I love my iPad and considering the amount of staff where I work who’ve acquired one since its launch nearly two years ago and especially this Christmas you just get the feeling that the momentum behind the ‘only’ tablet is just going to continue to snowball. But even though they are all converts to Apple’s immature platform the one thing that they all ask for is Windows and Office functionality and finally I can say… you can have it!
I hate most car commercials. I find them pretentious, unnecessarily over made and often hiding the product – the car – behind “art”.
I love Android, almost as much as my co-Authors love their Apple’s and iOS’s but unless you have a phone or a tablet which is running pure, unadulterated Android then you aren’t getting the full experience but rather a heavily watered down version, just look at how dire the Android tablet market is.
So 2012 is apparently going to the year of the Ultrabook and right on queue they’ve already started arriving in the office, the first offering being the Satellite Z830-10U from Toshiba.