Category: Featured

  • Block Distracting Sites with LeechBlock

    Firefox only:  Having a hard time focusing at work?  Do you compulsively check websites while your to-do list is growing?  We can be our own worst enemies when work needs to be done and things like Facebook and RSS feeds are at our fingertips. LeechBlock is an add-on for Firefox that allows you to block…

  • Happy New Year!

    It’s officially 2010, Happy New Year! Today also marks Techerator’s 9 month anniversary, so I’d like to send a special thanks to everyone who has helped me with Techerator over the past 9 months, especially: Dustin Patterson – Co-founder and Editor Kevin Schulte – Editor Reis Pritchard – Contributor Jacob Keppeler – Contributor David Carman…

  • Staff Picks: Top Gadgets and Tech of 2009

    2009 brought some amazing advances in technology and gadgets, so the staff at Techerator has put together a list of their favorite tech of 2009.  Let us know about your favorite tech of 2009 in the comments at the bottom! Evan Wondrasek Android-based Phones – I bought a Motorola Droid on launch day and have…

  • Staff Picks: Top Web Apps and Software of 2009

    Many great web applications and software emerged in 2009, so the staff at Techerator put together a list of their favorite or most used applications of 2009.  Let us know about your favorite software of 2009 in the comments at the bottom! Evan Wondrasek Gmail – I’ve been using Gmail for a few years, but…

  • Turn Your Digital Media into Web Video with Stupeflix Studio

    French startup Stupeflix has just launched Stupeflix Studio which aims to turn your digital media into something more meaningful.  Stupeflix Studio lets you easily create web videos from your own pictures and videos to showcase your digital artwork, create scrapbooks, or send personal video greetings. To get started, create a free account and you’ll be…

  • Vibe Streamer 3 Improves Your Music Library Streaming

    I previously wrote an article about setting up the free program Vibe Streamer to stream your music library to any Flash-enabled web browser.  An upgrade was recently released with offers many improvements that you may be interested in which I will cover below. Getting Started Start by downloading and installing the latest version of Vibe…

  • Songbird: The Firefox of Media Players

    Songbird, built by former Winamp, Netscape, and Firefox designers and developers, is fast on it’s way to becoming a large competitor in the media player category.  The free and open source Songbird has been in development since early 2006. Recently released by the Songbird team is version 1.4.2 of the Songbird media player.  Although Songbird…

  • Dropbox: Take Your Files Everywhere

    Methods of transferring and sharing files have come a long way from the days of 3.5″ floppy disks.  Once limited to 1.44 MB at a time, we are now able to use flash drives to easily transfer around 32 GB (approximately 22000 times as much data) at greater transfer speeds than before.  Although physical media…

  • Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions

    Now that the Google Chrome web browser officially supports extensions, great extensions are appearing every day.  I’ve gone through and picked ten of my favorite (and most useful) extensions so far and put them into a fancy Top 10 list. Before you can install extensions you’ll need to download and install the new beta version…

  • How to Manage Attachments in Gmail

    Since Gmail offers nearly unlimited storage space, most people keep emails with attachments archived so they can access important files later. This works great when you need to dig up pictures sent from a relative or print a copy of the report you wrote last year. Unfortunately, it’s pretty easy for messages to get lost…