Join Cool Paint for Kids
Sick of the little rascals expressing their inner Van Gogh all over you freshly painted walls? Tired of the little tyke eating more paint and crayons than they actually get on the paper? Well Coolpaint for kids might be the product for you! For three cents shy of $15.00 kids can learn drawing and image editing with more than 40 realistic painting tools and a vast picture gallery containing 1000 pictures.
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iTunes adds Complete My Album feature
Thanks, Apple. Even though you’re a bit late with this, I still appreciate it. You see, today Apple released a new feature for iTunes called “Complete My Album.” It’s kinda sorta self explanatory, but not really. Read on if you want to know more.
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BillaBoop Drum Machine
The BillaBoop is a new kind of drumming machine, it recognises sounds that you make like clapping a desk or clicking your fingers and then converts them into a proper drum noise.
BillaBoop has been developed by PhD student Amaury Hazan (students have so much fun) whose studying Machine Learning, Music Cognition and Audio Signal Processing. Which basically means he’s pretty clever and has programmed the BillaBoop to learn the noises that you make which drive the drums.
You’ve probably got to watch the video to understand what this bit of software does, if you can’t see the video click here.
Source: BillaBoop via our gadget forums.
*Rant* – Vista
Just to warn you in advance that there is a fair chance that this post will turn into something of a rant as I’m now into day 2 of life with Microsoft Vista and the grass is certainly not always greener.
First off this is totally my fault as I didn’t need to upgrade, I’ve been using XP for years and been pretty happy with it. But it’s coming up to the end of my tax year and anything I don’t spend I have to give 40% to the government to waste (that could easily be rant #2), so I thought this would be a good time to give Bill a bit more cash and upgrade to Vista Ultimate.
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HP’s New Support Program Designed to Make Your Life Easier
HP is thinking about its customers with the new Get IT@hp support program. According to the company, this program will transform IT for the better, by focusing in making the life of the clients easier. Let’s take a look at the features that will help you to deal with software and hardware problems, to buy a new PC and to back up your data.
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iFeedPod: Read RSS Feeds on Your iPod
Imagine if you could read all of your favourite RSS feeds on your iPod? That’s possible thanks to iFeedPod, a program that collects all the news from your feeds and copies them to your iPod so you can keep track of Coolest Gadgets and your favourite blogs and read the news anywhere you want to.
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Calendars, planners and apps,, Oh my! Do they suck!
I’m MAD!
Not in the Mothers Against Drunk Driving type,, but mad nonetheless.
This weekend for some weird reason, my palm pilot crapped out on me and though my contacts and memos still exist, I completely lost all distinct events listed in my calendar (my 4th pilot since 1997, love them for their simplicity, kinda frustrated right now).
Maybe I’m just dumb (don’t worry I hit the revert button right away,, nothing), but I’ve been thinking a lot about planning and scheduling apps. I have access to far too many of them, let’s see, Palm, Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Scrybe (yayy the beta is rocking, more on that later) and Evite (yes, I count Evite, it’s a great service that does a specific job very well, but lacks in my main complaint here).
On to my whine (and no, I’m not drinking any @#($* merlot!)
Why has no one created an email-able calendar event notification that is insert-able in ANY scheduling program?!
This has driven me mad for far too long. Half of my events require some other human to be there. I don’t want to “run their life” but I do want them to have a reminder available, no matter how they prefer to schedule their life. The issue we’ve all run into is simple, WE ALL PLAN DIFFERENTLY. However, we all do plan (sort of ). Continue reading » Calendars, planners and apps,, Oh my! Do they suck!
Keep your computer crash free (sort of)
Computers don’t really crash that often anymore, and you can go on and on about how often Windows crashes and how little OS X crashes, but in the end, it’s really not that big of a deal. . . unless you do something uber important that requires 100% uptime. For those people who worry about crashes when they’re not around to fix them, Kick-Off is the hardware software solution you need.
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