Sunday, May 02, 2010
“Late to the Party” Must-Have iPhone Games
With tilt controls and the Multitouch interface, the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and now the iPad present unique platforms for gaming experiences not offered on other portable gaming devices. There are more than 185,000 applications on the App Store and almost a third of them are games.
The App Store, as convenient as it might be, is deluged with new content every day, so it’s hard to tell what’s good from what’s not and the rating/review system is usually of no help. Sadly, if a game is not extremely popular, it’s often buried deep in the store and not every game comes with a free demo to try. This makes word of mouth recommendations very powerful.
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Wordpress - 5 Must Have Plug-ins
Last week we reviewed blogging powerhouse, WordPress. In this Tech Tip, we’ll look at some tools, widgets and plug-ins to optimize your site to its fullest potential.
As stated in the last Tech Tip , there are two versions of WordPress – .com and .org. To enhance your WordPress.com site you have some basic widgets available from the WordPress Dashboard. Under the drop down menu for Appearance, you’ll find a Widget tab that displays about 30 different widgets for your sidebar(s). Unless otherwise, noted, these tools and plug-ins are for use with WordPress.org.
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
WordPress - BLOGGING POWERHOUSE
Blogging has come a long way since we first talked about it back in 2006 with Tech Tips 61-64. What started out more as a personal journal has morphed into a professional/business, media/journalism tool. Now, organizations like the New York Times and MTV use blog software to power the “Comments” sections and more on their web sites. Media outlets like CNN, MSNBC and Fox News have editorial blogs. No doubt your own hometown newspaper’s online version utilizes some form of blog software as well.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
“How Much CPU Power Is Really Needed?”
Let’s start off with some rhetorical questions. How often do you proactively and manually do a virus scan on your system when you check your email? Do you use Photoshop for more than just editing out red-eye (or at all)? When was the last time you multi-tasked with lots of programs? (More than just running FireFox, iTunes and Microsoft Word simultaneously) While most mainstream computers today have multi-core processors that can juggle several tasks, it can get confusing about how much processing power is really required for simple everyday applications. This article will discuss how multi-core CPUs relate to everyday real life computing needs.
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