Want to join the polyglot set but don’t have the time for foreign language immersion, world travel, or academic courses? One Minute Languages offers basic instructions in a dozen languages for English speakers including German, Russian and Japanese that will help get you started. The short lessons are released weekly as a podcast you can subscribe to via iTunes, or you can just visit the site to play back archived tips in...

Would like to get in on the latest iteration from Microsoft Office department for free? At some stage later tonight, they will allow free downloads to the Beta version of Office 2010. (A Beta version is NOT the final version – it may have bugs.) This version will bring with it lots of new features that have been sorely missing from all the older versions of Office. Here is some of the new features to look forward to: Save Office...

Here is a great piece of security for getting the most out of your web-cam. If your like me you have one or more of these and have never ever video chatted with any one nor recorded a video. However there are plenty of uses for them if your creative. (No!.. not those kind). You can use it for security. Lets face it, your PC is probably on all day. Its a great opportunity to keep an eye on things. The problem is that most software out...

In a year, most enterprises will have the choice to “get rid of [Microsoft] Office if they chose to”, suggests Dave Girouard, president of Google’s enterprise division. Girouard, one of the company’s four presidents including founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, said in an interview with ZDNet Asia that he expects Google’s online document application, Google Docs, to reach a “point of...

Its not your fault! You’ve grown up on Windows. Its your parents fault! They didn’t teach you the rights and wrongs in the OS world…. OK Maybe that’s silly. However, we have mostly been conditioned in to using Windows for everything and we get a little stuck there. You know, M$ Windows had the whole touch screen phone thing down a long time before iPhones and Androids.. The latter came along a shook M$ up...