Author: Jake Ludington
How to Open .ODT OpenOffice Files in Word
OpenOffice is becoming increasingly popular in the workplace as a cost-cutting measure for IT departments that want to eliminate the expense of maintaining Microsoft OFfice licenses. This financial savings doesn’t come without a few potential quirks. For instance, if you use Microsoft Office on your home computer, the default file format used by OpenOffice, .ODT, [...]
Enhance Any Video Project with Adorage Effects Package 13
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of proDAD. All opinions are 100% mine. At LockerGnome we take a fairly punk rock approach to videos. We largely avoid title effects in video. We rarely use effects and transitions; if you’re lucky we might perform some jump-cut edits. That doesn’t mean we don’t [...]
Going Paperless with the Canon DR-C125 Desktop Scanner
This is a sponsored post written on behalf of Canon; the opinions represented are 100% my own. Almost two years ago, I began my first sustained effort to go paperless. Since then, I’ve scanned thousands of pages of receipts, documents, and other details that no longer need to exist in paper form. Along the way [...]
New Cloud Solutions and ExpertOne Certifications Announced at HP Discover
Day two of HP Discover in Vienna features a number of new features around HP CloudSystem, including build related enhancements in the form of integrated bursting, integration of data center infrastructure technology and high-performance communications networks, security reference architecture, and three CloudSystem certifications in the ExpertOne program. I had a chance to speak with Steve [...]
Mission-Critical Innovation Award Winners
Outside the Imperial Hotel in Vienna, an Austrian police escort lined the sidewalks waiting for a foreign dignitary to be whisked away by car. Inside, just past the lobby, finalists for the 2011 Mission-Critical Innovation Awards, presented by HP and Intel, enjoyed Austrian wine and appetizers while listening to a string quartet. While the police [...]
Black Friday Starts Today with Software Deals from Wondershare
Every year I make it my personal mission to scour the Internet for the best Black Friday deals on software. I’m sure I don’t find every deal, but I generally surface the Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers with the most significant savings. In some cases I find a deal significantly better than anything else, [...]
Free Decide.com App Helps You Know when to Buy Electronics
When I’m shopping for consumer electronics, I usually have one of two motivations. I’m either looking for the best solution to an immediate problem or I’ve done some careful research to determine my next long term purchase. In the first case, I’m typically in a hurry and just need good information about the gadget I’m [...]
Pre-Ordering Gadgets of the Future on Kickstarter
Would you buy a product before it actually exists? That’s essentially what Amazon asks us to do each time a new Kindle is announced. We see a prototype with a list of features paired with the promise of an amazing e-Reader. Apple does the same thing with the iPad, soliciting pre-orders before you can see [...]
Google+ Wants You to Get More Spam
It’s long been known that using a scraper to look for [username]@[domain] on Web pages is a known harvesting technique for spammers. Phishing attacks have taken to using valid email addresses for more targeted attacks as well. That’s why you see people doing clever tricks like displaying their email address as an image, embedding mailto [...]
Go Hands-Free on Your Mac with Dragon Dictate 2.5
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Nuance. All opinions are 100% mine. I use the Dragon Dictation feature on my myTouch 4G phone almost daily and I’ve used Dragon NaturallySpeaking on Windows for years. Speaking to my computer gives my hands a break from typing the 10,000-20,000 words I normally [...]
