Find Out if Your Computer Can Run the Latest Games with Can You Run It?
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Playing most new PC games these days takes a state of the art rig, but there are some new games out there that aren’t as demanding as others. Everyone wants to make sure their computer is going to be able to run a game before they go out and buy it.
Can You Run It? is a great resource that will test your computer’s hardware and determine if you can run the latest games by comparing your hardware to the recommended game specifications. This tool will make sure you know where you stand on your chances to run the newest game. It may also provide you with some good insight about what piece of hardware needs to be upgraded next.
Send Text Messages Online with Notifu
Did you pick the cheap text messaging plan and constantly go over your limit? I’ve done it in the past, and I’m sure I will do it in the future. We have all struggled with limiting our texting. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get some help with this problem?
Enter Notifu. Notifu is a great service that will allow you to send text messages online without going against the really low amount of texts the phone company sells you for $20 a month.
Top 5 Blogging Tools for Mac: Tool #1 NewsFire
The next series of posts that I will be writing will remain in line with some themes that I wanted to share with everyone following Lost In Technology’s new move to include Apple coverage. In the coming months I will tackle topics to include software for blogging, designing, writing, business, creative, and educational.
My hope is to provide for you the best of what I have found, but also create an open environment for others to share what they use. I’m sure that there are Apple fans out there that want to give their two cents and I gladly welcome it.
The first tool that I want to cover is NewsFire. Typically, prior to writing I look for tools that will help me gather information. Before, I would aimlessly search the net for previous stories written on a topic, or go to the subject matter’s website for more insight from their “About” page. Luckily now a lot of that trouble is saved by subscribing to RSS Feeds.
Weekly Links: November 8, 2008
This is my weekly round up of the links I have followed over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also connect with me in social networks to get some of these links throughout the week. As usual, catch the links after the break.
Take Control of Your Drives with Drive Manager
If you have a vast home network or lots of external and internal hard drives and optical drives, it can sometimes get hard to manage all of those drives. Drive Manager is a light weight application that helps you manage all of your drives in a better way.
Drive Manager shows just about every stat and characteristic about all of your drives. The biggest benefit of Drive Manager is that fact that it places all of the normal Windows features for drives in one place. It is that reason that makes Drive Manager a good tool to manager all of your drives. In addition to the tools, Drive Manager is very light weight and doesn’t need to install any files. This is because it runs directly from an exe file.
Features
- % Free column.
- Hard disk serial number
- CD ROM Doors open + close.
- Lock / Unlock CD ROM / DVD drives.
- Not mounted drives listed in grey with disks not inserted.
- Time and date.
- Map / Disconnect network drives.
- Hide / Unhide drives from explorer.
- See drives which are hidden.
- Drive properties dialog on right click.
- Create / Remove a substitute drive letter for a local folder.
- Hidden drives displayed in blue.
- Launch Windows Search
- Drives with less than 5% available are displayed in red.
- Vendor details: Vendor Name, Product Id, Revision, Vendor Spec
How To Play RealMedia Files in Windows Media Player
I’m sure that most of your have dealt with RealPlayer at some point, and I don’t have to tell you that RealPlayer is a big piece of junk. It is slow, bulky and annoying. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to play RealMedia and RealAudio files without RealPlayer?
Well, there is such a way! Real Alternative is a free codec that lets you play RealMedia with RealPlayer nowhere in sight. The Real Alternative codec works with just about any media player, but it does come with Media Player Classic.
The following Real formats are supported by the Real Alternative Codec.
- RealAudio (.ra .rpm)
- RealMedia (.rm .ram .rmvb .rpx .smi .smil)
- RealText (.rt)
- ReadPix (.rp)
Unless you like Media Player Classic, I would suggest downloading Real Alternative Lite. It is the same as the normal version, but it doesn’t come with Media Player Classic.
Top 10 Ways to Discover New Music
Most of my life I have strived to find new and interesting music, but I am often far too busy to really dig deep and find new artists everyday. Now that I am done with college and have a real job, I find that I have even less time to find new music or even stay up to date with all of the new bands.
I have, however, found some great resources that keep me in the loop with minimal time and effort.
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