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Google+ Plus - A potential end to Facebook's control over social networking?

Submitted by jbellendir on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 15:41

I got invited to Google+ the other night and I haven't been able to stay away from it. Google+ is everything I have been waiting for and I will give a quick review of why it's so cool and why Zuckerberg should be worried.

Google+ is facebook without all the nonsense and things you have grown to hate…including Zuckerberg’s arrogant attitude towards his users. It has all the privacy settings you wish you had with facebook...and much much more! Read more »


Japan upgrades quake to magnitude 8.8 to 9

Submitted by jbellendir on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 13:24

Tokyo has revised the quake from 8.8 to a magnitude 9. This report is unfortunately in Japanese only at this point.

http://www.nikkei.com/news/headline/article/g=96958A9C93819695E3E1E2E28B...


Earthquake in Tokyo, Japan - Use this website to track current quakes

Submitted by jbellendir on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 00:44

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php

Shows earthquakes occuring around the world with a magnitude over 5.


Viber saved the day in Tokyo with the 8.9 (8.8) earthquake in Japan

Submitted by jbellendir on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 00:40

8.9 is one of the largest earthquakes every recorded. Tokyo is still having 5-7 mag earthquakes as I write this at midnight, more than 9 hours after the first quake. I wanted to give credit to viber today, a free iphone app that lets you make voice calls over the data network.

Since everyone was trying to make calls today the network was flooded and NOBODY could make a voice call, at least I didn't see one person able to. Although, my viber app did! I was able to call my family back in the US through viber and other friends in Japan. It was like an emergency special phone. I highly recommend everyone to get it, in case these types of diasters happen again.


Viber - Free Iphone App to make Free Voice Calls

Submitted by jbellendir on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 12:22

One of my new favorite apps, Viber. It's a free download from the app store and allows you to make free voice calls from your iphone over (wifi and 3g) to anyone else in the world that has viber installed and running.

The nice thing about this app is how it's integrated with your contacts. People that have viber installed will automatically show up and allow you to make a viber call or a regular voice call over your carrier's network. No need to create a username and share with your friends. Just install and you are good to go. Check it out!

http://www.viber.com/


How to organize your Music Library with MediaMonkey

Submitted by jbellendir on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 21:53

If you have made the switch from itunes to MediaMonkey, odds are you have a folder structure on your computer with files everywhere and a bunch of album artwork all over the place. Time to tidy things up with the monkey.

You will want to clean up your music files and have MediaMonkey auto tag them, but then you are going to want to organize them on your computer. I like to organize all my files based on Genre and then by artist. Here is how you do it!

Use Mediamonkey to organize music by genre.

Select the music you want to organize in your main window. Then click on Tools -> Auto-Organize Files...

It will open a window and show you how your files will be organized in the New Path column.

Edit the destination path with the different variables you would like to use. Be sure to include the entire directory structure on your drive so that they only get moved around within your music library.

After you set it, hit Ok and it will do the rest.

Here is an example of how I organize my music files.

F:\_MUSIC LIBRARY\<Genre>\<Artist>\<Album>\<Artist> - <Title>

If you have any problem filenames because of your rules it will say "Duplicates and overly long filenames are highlighted. Please edit them."

The software's wording here is poor because all the files are HIGHLIGHTED with a yellow color which makes us think all of them are a problem. But really, they are saying the highlighted ones, which are the ones that have the red text. So just browse down the list to find them.


 


PS3 Media Server - Stream movies to your Xbox with ease

Submitted by jbellendir on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 16:26

Xbox 360 is an amazing piece of hardware, especially with Windows Media Center. You can add all your media files on your PC to Windows Media Center and then enable it on your Xbox to play your movie, music, and photo collections on your TV. The only lacking piece to all this is support for MKV files, which are commonly used for HD video.

This is where PS3 Media Server comes into play. Yes, it's called PS3, because it was originally created to stream videos to the PS3, however it now fully supports XBOX 360. You just download it, install it, then add a few folders for it to host and then when you go to your xbox video folder a link will magically appear and you can select your movies and play them. The nice thing is it supports .MKV files. The only thing you can't do is seek forwards or backwards. So basically play and pause are all you can do. But it's enough to enjoy very high quality video on your TV through your xbox and PC.

To read more about PS3 Media server go here: http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/

To download go here: http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/


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