Yet another turn in office productivity suites. Corel’s long-running word processor (which has long been overshadowed by Microsoft Word in terms of popularity) meets a milestone in its release of WordPerfect Lightning Beta.
WordPerfect Beta Lighting offers built-in access to online services which includes collaboration and storage that free users from browser dependence. It offers [...]

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Here’s a valid question from a reader. I previously posted the freeware Pivot Stickfigure Animator and and he asks:
“How do you put your Pivot videos on YouTube? Whenever I try it says invalid format. I want to put it on.”
To answer that, first of all, Pivot Stickfigure Animator can only save animation as an animated [...]

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Malicious websites and hackers exploit the browser’s capability of running apps and scripts like Java, Javascript and other executables to wreck havoc on your computer.
Here’s a helpful Firefox add-on to help you stop malicious scripts from running – NoScript. It allows you to filter from which trusted sources your browser will allow to run scripts [...]

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Sometimes some good clean fun can be made with your own pictures and a photo editing software. Now this one’s more than a toy rather than anything else – Distortit.
It’s pretty much similar to the sphere effect in Photoshop where a section of the photo’s magnified, creating a “bulging” effect.
It functions from a stand-alone EXE [...]

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Saw this article from Digg.
Now Speedtest.net used to be a pretty boring site with your common speed stats displayed. But they’ve revamped the site including a pretty snazzy interface and comparison data.
If you’re wondering how your Internet connection matches up with the rest of the world (or if your provider duped you with all the [...]

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Firefox 3, which is due out later this year, will probably contain a slew of new features. As as Firefox junkie, I’m all too anxious to get my hands on the final version.
As news has it, 3 will probably include features like offline support for Web applications. One thing they’re also looking at is [...]

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Kids and computers go well with each other nowadays. And many software are really designed for them featuring kid-friendly intuitive interfaces complete with bulging buttons. Anyway, here’s a paint tool that’s designed for kids – Tux Paint.
It’s got enough features to keep kids interested ages 3 and up. It has paint effects, bucket filling, [...]

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So Google has us all nuts with all of their services. And only someone nuttier would probably take score of everything and memorize each and every one of them down to search syntaxes and keyboard shortcuts.
So thank goodness for this guy who just made using Google services a tad easier – the Google Cheat Sheet. [...]

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I’m not really a sound engineering but I like audio. I did a few mixes myself and done some voice acting. I still play the guitar when I can. And if there’s one thing that I’ve learned from all of that, talent is one thing, but equipment counts. I’ve done some personal recordings using a [...]

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Google Desktop has been reported to have a flaw that no-gooders might exploit. It allows hackers to get into one’s computer, view files, and run unauthorized software. Recently, another attack has been uncovered. It’s called an anti-DNS (Domain Name System) pinning. It lets attackers access data indexed by Google Desktop.
Google Desktop hasn’t released an update [...]

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Mozilla updated Firefox to address a total of 14 vulnerabilities in the browser. Three of which are flagged critical. However, it failed to address one bug that the memory corruption flaw that enables attackers to put in codes in vulnerable machines just by making users visit a malicious site.
Here’s the list of vulnerabilities fixed in [...]

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Last time, I blogged about Google Apps to include Docs and Spreadsheets. In a press release, Google finally launches the business version of Google Apps.

10 GBs of storage per user – Offers about 100 times the storage of the average corporate mailbox, eliminating the need to frequently delete email
APIs for business integration – APIs for [...]

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No YouTube Raids for the moment since YouTube’s down for maintenance. Since, I’ve been featuring some nice Photoshop tutorials and here’s another one for you.
This one features anime style coloring and rendering using Photoshop. Now, it’s quite nice to know how to render something from a sketch to a full-color pin-up like this:

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If you’re into design and graphics, check out YouTube. There’s a lot of Photoshop tutorial videos found there. Not as detailed as tutorial DVDs go but enough to do the trick. Here’s one showing how that aqua sphere effect is done. This one’s done using a Mac:

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And here they are: Applications that have earned the “Certified for Windows Vista” logo or the “Works with Windows Vista” logo.

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