Archive for the 'Software' Category

Watch BBC iPlayer on XBMC (Xbox Media Center)

You only have to look at the row between the ISPs and the BBC to see that the iPlayer has been a huge success with users. I was particularly pleased with the move to a simple flash interface and I watch the odd thing I’ve missed this way.
However it was noticed by pretty much the [...]

Free Online Photoshop

Adobe have released Photoshop Express, a free online image editing, hosting and sharing service.
Whilst it has the Photoshop name, don’t come expecting a fully featured image editor or even a basic version of Photoshop. This is a very stripped down image editor, mostly for performing simple corrections, tweaks and effects. Don’t let that put you [...]

Free Adsense Ready Wordpress Theme - Maximum Adsense 02

OK so you might have noticed the slightly changed theme of the site. I had a few problems with the old theme doing some weird things with images and text floating in Internet Explorer.
So after a bit of hunting around I found the free Wordpress theme Maximum Adsense 02 here.
I quite like the look of [...]

Free 3D Rendering and Animation Software

I’ve been playing with Daz Studio for a few weeks now and it really is fun if you want to try your hand at 3D art without having to learn to model which quite frankly is insanely difficult. I am determined to teach myself Maya or 3D Studio Max but this is a little bit [...]

Free Lightweight Alternative to Firefox

So I still love Firefox and have now been using it since it started life as Phoenix back in whenever. However whilst it is happy playing on my desktop system which has plenty of memory, it no longer really behaves on my sad old laptop which I use for most of my browsing during the [...]