Category Archive: Technology

May 20, 2011 / by Marco / application, cool, googledocs, microsoft office user, office application, phone, software tool, tool, word processor

OffiSync – GoogleDocs plugin for Office

If you’re like me, I love GoogleDocs and it’s innovative features. I basically use GoogleDocs for everything, including drawing pictures. The main advantages for using GoogleDocs is the fact that your documents are all stored on the cloud and what’s more amazing is that you can share documents, spreadsheets and drawings with your colleagues or […]

I love technology

I love technology and the fact that technology helps us achieve so many things. If you look around you, technology is everywhere. You’re using the Internet and Computer right this instant… can you imagine living without this. What about your mobile phone? When I was back in high school mobile phones didn’t exist but look […]

May 4, 2011 / by Marco / account security, com, connection, Hypertext, information, password, poll id, secure browsing, secure connection, transfer protocol

Use HTTPS for facebook.com

Are you using a secure connection to your facebook account? I know how important it is to ensure you have the most secure settings for your facebook profile and I accidentally stumbled across this one – using HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure). For those non techies out there this basically encrypts and secures information between […]

April 30, 2011 / by Marco / download, free open source, Greenshot, image tools, imaging tools, Open, Photoshop, source image, source imaging, tool

Free Open Source Image Tools

There’s two open source imaging tools that I use to capture and edit on my Windows OS and I thought I would share this with you. GIMP – Image Editing tool similar to Photoshop. This tool can be difficult to use at first but once you get the hand of it, you’ll love it. You […]

Installing Cyanogenmod 7 on HTC Desire HD

I stayed up all night for this… (3am) but I managed to install Cyanogenmod7 on my HTC Desire HD. Initially, I thought it was going to be painful and I also hesitated after reading that you may brick your phone. I decided to take the plunge and update the most popular Android ROM out there […]

Have you tried utorrent 3.0 beta

I just downloaded and installed utorrent 3.0 beta and there a some great new features with this version. Most noticeably is the ability to stream videos whilst they are being downloaded. I just tested this it does work, but it’s not what I expected. Clicking on “stream” showed a message saying “Ready in [xx seconds]” […]

FireFox 4 sync feature

If you’re a techie like me you probably have already tested and used the FireFox 4 sync feature. What do you like about it? Did you find it difficult to set up? Is it secure? Those were some of the questions I asked myself post install. But before I dwell into these questions let me […]

Secure the unsecured

Today I was setting up my HTC phone as a hotspot and wondered how many wireless networks were unsecured – deliberately. Why, maybe there’s a deliberate intention from hackers. They get you to connect and use their wireless internet connection and then capture your internet usage. They may be even tracking where you went and […]

Are .mobi domains obsolete?

Several years ago there was a hype to purchase and register .mobi domains. These are internet domains that end with .mobi and are primarily used for viewing websites (optimised) on the mobile phones. With the introduction of smartphone the website pages are rendered for the phone so my question is whether these .mobi domains are […]

Android market goes online

I received notification that android market went live online. This gives android users to browse, purchase and install the applications from a desktop pc or laptop. This makes it easier for users to search and install apps. Google has also released the in apps purchasing as well. This allows developers to further make money on […]

January 31, 2011 / by Marco /

Odt file extensions

Today I received an email attachment with the file extension odt. I haven’t really paid attention to work out what application I needed to use on my android. When I tried opening this document it couldn’t recognise a program that could be used to open the file. Luckily after some research I discovered there is […]

December 21, 2010 / by Marco /

Issues with gingerbread keyboard on HTC Desire HD

I was reading about the new Android OS called Gingerbread and the great features this system has. One of them being the new keyboard and after a bit of researching I discovered that someone ported the gingerbread keyboard to Froyd. So I decided to give it a go on my Desire HD. It installed fine […]