Cool things from Nov 2008 PCWORD magazine
Posted by mikeg on October 22, 2008
OCZ’s Neural Impulse Actuator – controlling video games by wearing a headband that detects electrical biosignals in the body (By on Amazon: OCZ OCZMSNIA NIA – Neural Impulse Actuator)
Intel’s X25-M (80G) solid-state drive outperforms by a big margin 4200/7200rpm and even Ridata NSSD-S25 SSD
www.greensherpa.com – cash flow projections. in addition to tracking your spending also allows you to forecast how the purchase of a new tv will affect your budget
www.isearch.com – people-search engine that helps you reunite with long lost friends
www.tableau.com – visualize your data better than Excel
Black Friday deals:
- www.bfads.net
- blackfriday.gottadeal.com
- www.BlackFridayAds.com
- http://dealnews.com/features/The-dealnews-Black-Friday-Strategy-Guide/197209.html
Top Sites for Bargain finders: http://www.pcworld.com/article/141808/top_sites_for_bargain_hunters.html
www.topica.com – recommended email marketing service
www.pidgin.im – multiprotocol IM client
www.syncplicity.com – sync multiple computers
Billing/Invoicing – Zoho launched that service but only supports paypal for online payments. www.freshbooks.com supports more online options and offers to send invoices by mail (extra cost)
Password utilities
- www.roboform.com – I am a long time user, very happy with it
- www.passpack.com – didn’t sound interesting/secure
- PwdHash – Firefox AddIn, based on you single password, it generates different “hashes” for each site. Sounds interesting and convenient
- www.guardid.com – sounds like RoboFormToGo
http://www.pcworld.com/article/123728/top_10_external_hard_drives.html
MP3 Manager – MediaMonkey
HDTV on USB: Pinnacle’s PCTV HD Por Stick outperforms Hauppauge’s WinTV-HDR-950Q
External Video Card: http://www.evga.com/uvplus/, 2 versions: 1440×900 and 1600×1200. (20% discount UV16PWNOV)
Cannon Pixma MX700 – Best Buy Multi Function Printer, $200
SlideSlide – app launcher
Lists:
Employee Monitoring:
- www.ascentive.com/pcw3 — BeAware
www.VirusTotal.com – allows you to upload a file and site runs it against 35 different anti-virus tools
Online virus/malware cleaning tools
- BitDefender
- ESET
- F-Secure
- Trend Micro
www.adtunes.com – helps you identify tunes used in ads and other tv content
www.failblog.org – fun stuff
