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MusicSkins Review (Personalise Hi-Tech Gadgets With Skins)
November 9, 2009
You’ve got your iPod, you’ve got your laptop, and now you can proudly walk around showing them off just like everybody else. But we humans seem to have an inherent need to be different, so somehow stand out, and thus the idea of adding skins to your prized electronic possessions arose and a company called MusicSkins are at the forefront of this market and so we thought we’d have a look.
The first thing you’ve got to do if you want to make your device unique is have the right device, but fortunately this is a pretty easy step as there is a fairly wide range available: the Nintendo DS, Sony PSP and PSP slim, iPhones, iPods, Zunes, SanDisks, a whole variety of popular phones (10) , five different size of laptops (12, 13, 14, 15 and 17 inches), Seagate Hard Drives and most importantly four types of Guitar Hero controllers.
But, alas, despite saying it was easy I found I in fact had none of them which fortunately is more of an exception (especially considering how much I love new tech) than the rule. Mostly this is due to the fact that MusicSkins do not currently offer netbook skins (hint hint!), or at least skins for those less than 12” – so borrowing a sibling’s Nintendo DS was then next step…
Continue reading »Launchy Review (Free Windows Application Launcher)
September 19, 2009
If you haven’t heard of it, Launchy is essentially a program created to help you launch other programs already installed on your computer. The first time I heard this, my immediate reaction was “Why the hell would I want to install a program to launch other programs?” Well I’ll tell you exactly why…
I hate cluttered desktops. There’s nothing worse than logging on to my PC and being confronted with countless shortcuts, folders and old downloads. I even got rid of the Recycle Bin shortcut from my desktop! With Launchy installed, I no longer need to have any shortcuts to applications or documents on my desktop, and it runs in the background, so you don’t know it’s there until you need it to be.
Continue reading »Google Mail Themes
November 21, 2008
Google have had a busy week! In addition to offering Gmail video and voice chat, Google Mail themes are now available within their webmail interface.
Over the past few years since Gmail went live, the interface itself has had a few minor tweak and modifications along the way, but it’s been essentially the same kind of look from the start. There has been some option of customisation offered by people using scripts and extensions in their Firefox browser, however there are now a variety of themes on offer from within Google Mail.
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