So we’ve reached our second decade of the third millenium. The “noughties” were remembered by many as the “digital decade”, but what will this one become? Obviously it’s too early to say but here at willineedit.com we have a few predictions of how the world might change for us techies. Not all predictions are positive though!
Christmas is coming and finding presents is hard enough, especially when nobody tells you what they want. Various family members are young, play a computer games on a console or on their PC, you think you can get them a game for their present, but what do you get?
A new site, CutTheRRP has recently launched and quite simply outputs all the best gaming deals for you to choose from. Currently, it is only UK based but developments are underway to cater for all gaming markets and clue consumers in on what games are hot and what the best prices are for them.
After the jump we show you the best ways to view the hot Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and PC games with the minimum of fuss.
Sometimes, when you are chatting with friends or colleagues you will highlight the fact that you saw an awesome film on DVD the other day or heard a really cool album that you downloaded via iTunes, only for them to reply: “Yeah, well I heard/saw that ages ago, I downloaded it the day it came out”. The conversation then turns to how they did this and how can you do the same but your request is met with a reply that simply implies it’s too difficult for you to fathom and might include the suggestion to look into something called Bittorrent.
Bittorrent, put simply is a way of downloading large collections of files without the need for complicated software packages, it uses one protocol that can be accessed many different ways. Many people are used to peer-to-peer programs such as Limewire, Gnutella and Napster and associate this with the downloading of Bittorrent files.
So, completely forget about firing up a software program and searching away for the file of your choice. Bittorrent is much a much simpler but altogether different way of downloading files but today we want to explain the basics so you can harness the power of Bittorrent without any of the confusing jargon and related technical rubbish.
Let’s get one thing straight, it is illegal to download copyrighted works via the internet, WillINeedIt doesn’t condone any sharing of this nature. Bittorrent can be used to serve legal data also, with this article serving as a guide to using the protocol so users can decide what they wish to download, from wherever they wish.
With the release of the Motorola Droid, awareness has been raised about the Google Android platform and shown there is a real alternative to Apple’s iPhone. Many people have ditched their iPhone’s and migrated across to the Google platform but have had real trouble working out how to get all of their contacts, settings and app data ported from one device to the other.
We have recently showcased a number of Android apps that will help iPhone owners move from the App Store to the Android Market and today we will show you how to make sure all of your iPhone contacts are ported from the iPhone to your Android phone courtesy of Google Contacts. This is tried and tested on a HTC Hero, I haven’t had the chance to check and see if it works with the Droid. If it works for you, please let us know in the comments.
Google Wave is one of the latest applications Google is touting at the moment and it’s got some hype – people are clambering high and low to get invites. But is it the ultimate online collaboration tool? Google Wave incorporates external bots and plugins to aid collaboration, although it isn’t clear just how many people use them.
Many of these bots and gadgets are limited in their use at the moment, mainly because most Wave users aren’t completely clear on how Google Wave will work best for them. In the coming months, we expect there to be some real standout applications that help push the Wave service to new heights.
Only time will tell (collaboration is only as powerful as the people using it) but in the meantime we’ll show you 5 things you can do with Google Wave right now by using bots and gadgets.
Please Note: We are also giving away some Google Wave invites, click here for more information.
Yeah, the title pretty much sums it all up. I was lucky enough to grab a Google Wave invite very soon after the public beta invites were released and have had a long period to test the service, interact with friends and on public waves, now we want to be able to give you the chance to get involved with what’s popular right now.
You can use this article to familiarise yourself with what Google Wave is, what it does and find out just why you will need one.
Update – 25/11/09: We now only have 7 invites left, get in before they run out!
26/11/09 – We have given away all 30 invites but now have 10 more!
You could have called me an iPhone fanboy, there are plenty of articles on WillINeedIt demonstrating the fact. I recently had the chance to take possession of a new HTC Hero, a Google Android powered phone, and I wanted to see just how well it stacked up against the mercurial Apple device.
I am a week in to my experience of being an Android phone owner and I think it’s safe to say I will be sticking with the open framework and ditching the restrictions and closed nature of the iPhone. I have found that the two devices are very similar and that most of the apps can be downloaded for both platforms.
There are quite a few Android Market list articles floating about on the web and I am going to add another one to the list. This article is for people who have recently moved from an iPhone and want to know just what apps will mimic the functionality of their old device, helping their transition from the walled garden of the iPhone to the glorious pastures of the Android operating system. All of the apps listed here will be downloadable from the Android Market, we will try to either link to the Market or the official homepage of the app itself.
Voicemail it seems is becoming quite the in thing. Apple had revolutionised voicemail with it’s visual voicemail, then Google released their Google Voice service allow users to take control of all their phone numbers and have advanced voicemail options. Now, there is a new major player to the game.
Ribbit, the “Internet Phone Company”, has recently launched Ribbit Mobile in beta guise for US users. WillINeedIt.com delves under the hood of this new cloud-based telephony service.
This article is for the people who run their own Windows servers and are frustrated by the amount of time they have to wait for the POP3 Connector to connect and download any new emails on their server. If you run an Exchange on Small Business Server, you may have already noticed that the graphical interface only allows you to set the time between connections to a minimum of every fifteen minutes.
If, like me, you are looking for more of an instant mailbox, there is a simple way to reduce the polling time of the POP3 Connector. All it requires is a small registry editing and two minutes of your time.
Downloading television episodes via the internet is something that continues to grow and grow. TV networks had found their audiences are preferring to record their favourite programmes on their DVR’s and watch them back at more suitable times, this has seen some of the more internet savvy users take to harnessing the power of Bittorrent to grab the new episodes as soon as they become available.
When you want to download a TV episode, it’s as easy as visiting your favourite Bittorrent website, performing a search and then clicking download. This brings with it a little sense of repetition and it can be tiresome if you follow quite a few different television series and have to perform numerous searches to download each episode.
One way to automate the download process is to take advantage of RSS, many Bittorrent websites provide RSS feeds to allow syndication of their listings to different Bittorrent applications that support it. This article will show you how to add RSS feeds to uTorrent and configure it to download each television episode as soon as it’s available.
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