Archives for August 9th, 2007

Helpful Tip: Free eBay Bid Assistant Does Your Bidding

I’m sure you’ve been in the situation before where you’ve wanted to purchase something on eBay, but there were multiple people selling the same thing. You probably placed a bid on one of the items in hopes that you’d win it, but you had to leave for work and wouldn’t know the results until you got home.

August 9th, 2007
Helpful Tip: Free eBay Bid Assistant Does Your Bidding

Free Music Downloads

Wouldn’t it be nice to get some free music downloads with no strings attached? That’s something many of us long for, and it’s the same thing that the RIAA despises. One of the places where I can download free music is a site that one of my friends told me about, and it’s called PureVolume.

August 9th, 2007
Free Music Downloads

Do You Know the Capabilities of Your Next Gen Game Console?

Next generation consoles like the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 are packed with new features and capabilities that set them apart and place them in the “Next Gen” category, yet a recent study indicates that a good chunk of these console owners really don’t know everything their system can do. If you don’t know what your system is capable of, you’re certainly not going to be able to take full advantage of your purchase.

August 9th, 2007
Do You Know the Capabilities of Your Next Gen Game Console?

Active Desktop in Vista

Active Desktop was a feature included with Windows up until the release of Vista. It allowed HTML sites, among other things, to be viewed on the user’s desktop as if they were part of the wallpaper. They were then constantly updated to provide news, weather, and a host of other information at the user’s fingertips.

August 9th, 2007
Active Desktop in Vista

Blockbuster Acquires Movie Download Service

Blockbuster has been on an uphill climb for quite some time now as they try to figure out how to morph themselves into a company that can compete with Netflix. The brick & mortar thing just doesn’t work anymore when people have the opportunity to download movies, or receive them in the mail.

August 9th, 2007
Blockbuster Acquires Movie Download Service

Download Netflix Movies via “Watch Now”

When Netflix started their streaming video service, dubbed "Watch Now," the first thing that popped into the minds of some people was saving the video to their hard drive. The problem is that the videos are plagued with DRM, as is most digital media these days, and you need to do some things in order to get around it.

August 9th, 2007
Download Netflix Movies via “Watch Now”

No Need for Google, Go Spock Yourself!

At some point or another, you’ve probably Googled yourself to see what the results were. Rather than Googling yourself, go Spock yourself instead! Yesterday, Spock officially launched their public beta.

August 9th, 2007
No Need for Google, Go Spock Yourself!

CyberNotes: How to Backup Gmail

There have been plenty of occasions where I have been left wondering if I had lost everything in my Gmail account. If you don’t know about any of those situations that I’m talking about, just view all of the past occurrences that we have written about. People have lost every email in their account numerous times, and how do you know that you’re not going to be next?

August 9th, 2007
CyberNotes: How to Backup Gmail