Alarm Clock of Justice

There was a time I stayed over at a friend's place... then I realised that I don't have an alarm clock... well I could've used my phone but since I had uni the next day, I was afraid of over-sleeping due to me sleeping thru the alarm... ><

So i searched for an Alarm Clock that i could use on my laptop... the Alarm Clock of Justice!

Sounds funny but rather awesome :3 although it could use a little updating since the last time the main website was updated seems to be in 2009... =S oh dearz... XD

Anyway, this alarm clock isn't any particular alarm clock... you can set your computer to sleep/hibernate and it can wake you and your computer up............. only downside is... if you have windows 7 (or maybe other operating systems), you have to disable the sleep timers ._." but it's not the program's fault... =P

Also, the user interface (what you see in the program) is rather straight-forward. You can set the time you want to wake up down to the second you want to wake up (O.o) and have a back-up alarm. You can set what days of the week you want your alarm playing and what you want to wake up to (ie. Music, movie, internet webpage/program.) If you muted your computer, it can unmute it (or else it'll be useless O.o how is it gonna wake you up unless you're already awake?!) and you can set what volume it should have, fade in volume, random volume, extreme random volume and/or alternate volume when it's active.

In addition to waking you and your computer up, you can make it display a reminder... I've never used it before but i reckon it's cool that it's implemented =] and as far as i know, i'm not sure how a backup alarm works... O.o SNOOOOOOOOOOOOZE! there's snooze involved! ^o^ you can personalize it to your liking as usual =P

Anyway, check out the site! It's really cool and has so much potential for heavy sleepers such as myself ^^;

Launchy

Here's something you can use if you don't like having icons all over your desktop for your most used items. It's called Launchy and it's quite a handy tool.

It indexes all your files and folders so that it can easily access them and launch them with a few keystrokes. I use it for pretty much everything I need to open except for folders because... well... i'm not exactly 100% sure but i believe you have to type in the full address path to open it. Eg. C:\Users\Kari
if you open a particular file more often than others, it will show your search faster and possibly with less keystrokes required
Eg. When you use Launchy and you want to use Firefox, you type in "firefox" at first. Then, you can type in less keystrokes "firef" and eventually, you may end up by just typing in "f"

Sometimes, you may not find what you wanted to launch when you type in something like say... "mine" when you want to play minecraft (lol....) but it comes up with minesweeper (XD)
when this happens, you just wait a few moments and a drop down list will appear, if minecraft is there, you select it and launch it. those keystrokes will be saved for a faster access the next time you want to launch that program.

Sometimes~ there may even be times when you type in the full name of the program that you want and it doesn't show up.

dBPoweramp Music Converter

Here's a software that you can use to compress your music files by up to ... well i'm bad at percentages... LOL but here's a before and after so you can see how much a particular music file got compressed.

Before:

Click here to view original size

After:

Click here to view original size

As you can see, the file has been compressed by quite a lot. My friend told me that it was compressed by 262%... but I'm not sure if that's true O.o

This software has a 21-day free trial and you can use it to convert your music files or digitally rip your CDs. When you convert your music, it also keeps all your music tags so you don't have to rename them all. Meaning, the titles, artists, albums are all kept when you convert them. By using this software, i have 924 songs that used 2.4gb on my iPod which is such a big deal for me because i have a 4gb iPod.... hahaha XP guess it was worth getting a 4gb iPod XD

You can buy it at dBpoweramp for $38 which is a good investment because your music collection isn't going to shrink. It's going to grow so you can save your money with your current music player rather than deciding to buy the latest music player with more gb so you can store your new music on it. ^_^

DVDVideoSoft

Here's a software that you can download called DVDVideoSoft that you can use for many things.

You can:

-Download/Upload Youtube videos

-Convert videos

-Burn DVDs

-Edit videos/audio

-etc.

Downloading Youtube Videos

This I would have to say is the most useful part of this software. I'm not sure why it has the Youtube uploader feature since you can just upload it directly on youtube itself...

When you download Youtube videos, you can choose what kind of format you want it to be. You can download it as a normal .avi .mp4 .flv or you can download it directly to .mp3 .wav format or even burn it to an audio CD from there.

You can download it into a format for your iPod, iPhone, Blackberry, Apple TV, PSP and lots more. Basically anything you want. The latest version features a Facebook uploader as well.

Converting Videos/Mobiles

Here you can convert your videos already on your computer into many different formats. DVD, flash, .mp3, .jpg. You can also flip & rotate or even make a 3d video but it requires the use of 3d glasses. You can also convert it to audio format.

You can also convert your videos for your mobile devices such as Android, Apple TV, Blackberry, HTC, iPad, Nintendo & more. Even Xbox.

MP3 & Audio

Audio converters, Audio to flash although i'm not quite sure how that works... you can dub audio and there are also some icons which come from other categories like youtube videos and converting videos.

DVD Burner

This is quite self explanatory. Get your videos or audios off your CD or burn them onto a CD

Photos & Images

Convert your images and resize them or get a screenshot from a video. You can even make a 3d photo with the 3d photo maker although you'll need 3d glasses to see the end result. There's also a screen video recorder so you can record whatever you want to show on your screen instead of using a camera to record which isn't as good.

The best way to find out about it's features is to go to DVDVideoSoft and download the software and have a play with it. The whole software's only 60mb.

Floola

First up, we have Floola.

I really like this software. It's something that you use mainly for your click-wheel iPods (classic, mini, nano from 1-5) as a replacement for iTunes.

The reason why I really like this is because it's portable so if you're travelling and you don't have a laptop/netbook with you, just save Floola onto your iPod as if it were a USB stick. Then when you want to add music, videos or anything at all, just run the program from your iPod. It's even mac supported so mac users can also travel without worrying about not being able to add music to your iPod.

Anyway, that was a short review. Sorry it's my first time ^^; If you want more details about Floola, you can just go to the website or you can post a question in the comments =]]

Intro

Sup guys~ welcome to the first post of this blog XD

So this blog is mainly for me to review products, whether it is hardware or software.... and by hardware, i don't exactly mean the electronic parts INSIDE a product =P yeah... XD

oh, i'm kari-chan =P nickname of course, just call me kari if you want XD