Jan 26, 2009

With Australia Day just now hitting and the Chinese New Year beginning, we saw it fit to serve up some ox-tail soup, Vegemite, and anything else that allowed us to celebrate the way we knew how! For this episode, we took a look at something all Australians can be proud of and that’s inventions that Australians have shared with the world. From the...

Jan 19, 2009

Over a decade ago, companies were scrambling to get a good office suite out into the marketplace. Microsoft had set their eyes on an idea titled “Microsoft Works,” Claris had one, Apple had another, as well as the ridiculous amount of independent programs including the etched-into-my-mind Wordperfect. Eventually, everyone settled on the dominant...

Jan 19, 2009

Sick of paying for Microsoft Office? Well, this week on The Gadget Grill, we tackled The Office Revolution and showed you a couple of ways where you could save some money with some free alternatives to Microsoft’s hugely successful office suite that are just as good and in some cases better. If you don’t believe us, check out our article for more...

Jan 13, 2009

One of the newer but lesser known features in Windows Vista was the Snipping Tool. This tool is continued in Windows 7, and it provides you with a simple means of capturing an image of a portion of your system’s screen, which might be needed for you to include in a document you’re preparing, for support of an application that you’re using, or...

Jan 13, 2009

If you’re a guy and you plan on shaving your head, you don’t have a lot of choices. You can head to a hairdresser or barber and pay anywhere between eight and twenty dollars for someone to come along with a buzzer and take as much of your hair off in one go as humanly possible. You could join the army. That would be somewhat effective provided you...