Although a number of people learn to speak Chinese and Japanese, writing these languages is a different matter. Most people cannot properly differentiate between the characters of these languages. To help them write these languages better, Skritter was created.  Skritter is a web service that helps users learn to draw chinese Chinese and Japanese characters [...]

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Firefox: Some sites (like IMDB) prevent you from performing certain actions, like right clicking, on their pages. Firefox extension RightToClick disables these scripts, giving you the ability to right click, select text, or perform other actions forbidden by a given web site. After installing the add-on, you’ll notice a new green cursor icon in your [...]

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Once the How-To Geek got a hold of an Android phone, you had to know he’d get fiddly with it. He’s compiled a step-by-step guide to getting more battery life from any Android phone. The How-To Geek’s guide doesn’t involve many additional app installations, nor firmware rooting or algorithmic data schemes. It’s just a programmatic [...]

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Travel search site Kayak launched a new feature earlier this week called Kayak Explore, a visual search engine that starts with the basic question of, “I have X amount of money to spend. Where can I go?” The map interface of Explore lets you select a price range, a time of year to travel (this [...]

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If you are new to 3D computer graphics, you’ve come to the right place to get started. Maybe you know how to use 2D editing programs, such as Photoshop or GIMP, but you want to get closer to the real world. 3DS Max from Autodesk is the perfect software to get you started with that. [...]

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  We’ve all been there: you hear a song in a commercial, over the radio, or in video clip and you can’t figure out who the artist is. AudioTag scans your files or YouTube video and returns a list of matches.You can use AudioTag by uploading a file or using the URL for the file. [...]

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For what I (and Google) can see, Google Goggles might be one of the next evolutionary steps of mobile search. Basically, think of Goggles as object recognition, but with your phone’s camera serving as your eye. How might you identify an unfamiliar object? Perhaps by shape or by context. Does it have text printed on [...]

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Adobe is hard at work on the follow-up to their line of CS4 products. Just recently, they released a sneak-peak video of some of the experiments they’re working on. Needless to say, it’s incredible! It’s almost time to start filling the coin jar. According to reports, the CS5 suite is expected to be released April [...]

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For those of you who find the Windows task manager a little too light on features, here’s an awesome little application for you. Process Hacker does the same basic functions as task manager, but with lots of invaluable extras. Task manager only lists running processes, but Process Hacker allows you to investigate where these processes [...]

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Wow. It’s WoW–for Twitter. It’s not endorsed by Blizzard or Twitter, or really anyone, for that matter, but for those who are sick and tired of leaving their virtual world to take advantage of all the Web has to offer, microblogging has finally come to World of Warcraft with TweetCraft. The app lets users send [...]

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