Clint's Picks

The World protests for the 99% Occupy!

2011-10-18T09:15:00.003+11:00

If you dont know about it. Start reading up on it. Not your everyday protest and it does affect you. Basically 1% of the population hold a very large majority of the worlds wealth. This is exponentially growing and current laws are helping that. 99% of us are working harder and getting poorer.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-spreads-worldwide/100171/

The occupy movement started out front of wall street and has rapidly moved to most major cities around the world. There isn't a lot of media attention considering how big it is and how much this could affect the world due to who controls the media, yes the 1%. So unless you make millions of dollars a year, this protest represents and could benefit you.

School A to Z

2011-08-05T11:00:00.002+10:00

www.schoolatoz.com.au

Google plus does privacy

2011-08-05T09:46:00.004+10:00

Google Plus is the new competition to Facebook and does a few thing differently. Namely it takes privacy alot more seriously so you can selectively converse with your friends and your work/family will not see it.
read more below
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/08/a-guide-to-google-privacy-and-information-control/#more-396290

Poster Printing

2011-07-18T15:34:00.003+10:00

http://www.blockposters.com/

upload any picture, choose how many A4 pages wide you want to it be, then download the split up pdf file ready to send to the printer.

speed test your connection

2011-07-18T15:22:00.004+10:00

Always a good idea to get a comparison for internet speeds, and for testing how good your line is.

http://www.speedtest.net

TED looking past limits

2011-05-16T10:19:00.002+10:00

Another TED talk I had to share. Really worth watching

Too much Personalising on the web

2011-05-16T09:28:00.002+10:00

Interesting notes on the downside of tailored web browsing.

Play poker games on a lan network

2011-05-12T13:49:00.002+10:00

Games to play Texas Holdem on a network against people and/or A.I. bots

LANpoker
http://www.lanpoker.net/eng/games.htm

Poker TH
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pokerth/

Free and useful software

2011-05-12T13:13:00.000+10:00

Here are more applications that are both useful and free.

Spacesniffer
See a visual layout of you harddrives and you have immediate perception of where big folders and files are placed on your devices.
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html

DVDstyler
Make professional looking DVD's and menus from video, pictures and audio
http://www.dvdstyler.org/en/

Ashampoo Burning Studio 6
Burn cd's, DVD,s and blu-ray disks. Rip audio, backup and more. Hint do a custom install and dont install the toolbar.
https://www.ashampoo.com/en/aud/pin/0710/Offline/Ashampoo-Burning-Studio-6

Power Data Recovery Free Edition
Retrieve deleted files from harddrive and flash drives,
http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/

Microsoft Security Essentials
Very good and free antivirus from microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/security_essentials/default.aspx

Music Lovers will Love Grooveshark

2011-03-04T13:37:00.005+11:00

Welcome to the world of music streaming.
http://listen.grooveshark.com

Just type in your music song name or artist, add to the playlist and away you go. Extra features galore, you can sort by genre, sort by popularity and also check out the social aspect of grooveshark, view what other groover users are listening to. Genre specific radio stations are awesome. Create a login and save and share playlists. The only downside of this site is that it uses your download usage (although not much) so if you tend to run out of usage at the end of the month, go gentle. Set up a good set of speakers for the computer, (or send a cable from the pc to your home sound system) and you have the ultimate party jukebox. Grooveshark is available for alot of mobile phones, and also as a webapp in google chrome. Grooveshark is the best music streaming site today.

Freemake Video Converter FREE

2011-02-14T13:36:00.003+11:00

Freemake video converter

This is one of the best and easiest free video converter out there .
http://www.freemake.com/
Pretty much every format is available. DVD avi, blu-ray, youtube, photos, mp3, andriod and ipod. Over 200 formats supported in fact. The interface is extremely simple to use.
Highly recommended!

Freemake Video Converter 2.0 from Freemake on Vimeo.

Online meetings and collaboration.

2010-10-20T09:06:00.003+11:00

There may be sometime in your lives you may need to collaborate with someone, but being in the same room/town/state/country may be difficult. There are lots of useful and free tools to help you get work done with other people online. (and get a webcam, it will help, most webcams come with microphones inbuilt too.)

Skype
http://www.skype.com
Video conferencing at its best. Face to face video chat and the newest version adds facebook integration.

DimDim
http://www.dimdim.com/
Hold online meetings with up to 10 people. (more people and more fancy stuff for paid version) share documents.

Google Docs
http://docs.google.com/
Google docs allows multiuser (even in realtime) sharing of word processor/spreadsheets/drawings. Typing Chat is available while in documents while videochat is available through gmail.

Dabbleboard
http://www.dabbleboard.com/
Online real-time sharable, whiteboard

Adobe connectnow
http://www.adobe.com/acom/connectnow/
video web conferencing (free for 3 people) with adding tools such as whiteboards, document sharing, and sharing screens for presentations.

tokbox
http://www.tokbox.com/
Web based video chat with up to 20 people at once for free Excellent sevice and well worth the look.

Google Instant! Your new homepage....

2010-09-09T14:15:00.007+10:00

Google is experimenting with their search engine right now. Is is good? My recommendation. Put this as your homepage, and go be happy
http://www.google.com/ncr
or
http://www.google.com/webhp?sclient=psy

the address may change later on as this is still beta stage. This will become the main google page when they are finished fidling with it, but enjoy it now because it works!
for more info, etc, see
http://www.google.com/instant/#utm_campaign=launch&utm_medium=van&utm_source=instant

EDIT : It is great to see that google instant in now on by default.

Soluto - speed up your boot time

2010-07-09T12:33:00.008+10:00

Holy crap this program actually works. My PC from startup to when I could actually use it was about 3-4 minutes. Not too bad as I have seen PCs take 10 minutes and more. This program records your startup then brilliantly rearranges the startup programs to speed up the time. You get to choose what programs you dont need, or dont mind delaying in a very user friendly interface. Programs are shown with information gathered from other users and statistics on what choices others have made. My Pc's startup time is now a bit over 1 minute. CHECK OUT THE VIDEO!!!

Soluto - How to use Soluto Beta from Soluto on Vimeo.

And yes it is free!!

http://www.soluto.com/