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How to Clean Up Your Computer or Laptop after the Holidays

Best Software Sep 19, 2024

Your laptop most probably carries more than just travel photos and memories from your holidays. Using it to stay in touch, watch movies, or navigate your way around an unknown location during your vacation adventures, it’s no surprise that digital clutter builds up. From downloading huge files and accessing unfamiliar…

Holiday Video Disasters: Common Issues and How to Solve Them

Best Software Aug 28, 2024

The arrival of summer is often accompanied by cameras ready to capture every special moment of our vacations. However, too often we discover upon returning home that those memories have various types of errors. From videos that won’t play to corrupt files that prevent us from reliving our experiences, it’s…

August 24 Tech news roundup: Windows will remove Control Panel soon, Chrome gets a critical security update, Access Apple Podcasts on any browser

News Aug 24, 2024

Windows 11 Control Panel will be removed soon Microsoft has confirmed it will remove Control Panel from Windows 11. This has been coming for a long time, since 2015 to be precise. A recent update to a document on Microsoft’s website reveals that the legacy app is being deprecated, in…

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Google Open-Sources Deepdream For Creating Weird Images

News Photo and Image Editing July 6, 2015

Google recently announced that it has open-sourced its code for creating (weird) “wild and crazy” images using a type of artificial intelligence known as deep learning. Deemed the deepdream project, it is now available on GitHub. Deepdream relies on the open-source Caffe deep learning framework. Deep learning involves training... Read more

New Improvements to Electronic Piano’s MIDI Interface

Music Software Reviews July 1, 2015

There’s no question that great work is being done with computers and technology across every possible field and industry. But some of the most impressive hybridizations in tech and craft are happening in music. Thanks to software like Electronic Piano, more and more artists are able to explore their... Read more

Free Studio: One Of The Best Gets Better

Multimedia News June 22, 2015

If you’ve taken a peek around the FileHippo site, you may have noticed a pretty cool truth: our users are fairly discerning when it comes to what they like and don’t like in software. Some of the top names in applications may only have an average rating from our... Read more

These Photoshop Fails Prove The Editors Weren’t Even Trying

Photo and Image Editing June 5, 2015

It never ceases to amaze me just how dumb some people think we are. I mean, it’s one thing to post a picture of yourself with a famous actress kissing your cheek, it’s something else entirely to basically use Paint to cut around her picture and glue her in... Read more

New Features Make Filmora Video Editor One Of The Best

Software Reviews Video Editing Software May 20, 2015

Thanks to the latest and greatest in smartphones, there’s an abundance of pretty high-powered cameras in everyday users’ hands. Pound for pound, my iPhone 6 is almost up to the same specs and performance as my Nikon when it comes to capturing video. But the real trick is in... Read more

Key New Updates For Icecream’s Suite Of Tools

Multimedia News May 15, 2015

Icecream offers one of the most popular toolboxes on the File Hippo site, mostly because they keep current with their updates while ensuring a high level of compatibility across multiple platforms and operating systems. The Icecream Apps development team have just launched several big updates, including ones for Icecream... Read more

Not-To-Be-Missed Features In The New Flash Player Update

News Video May 13, 2015

Having to update your Flash Player has actually become a joke in pop culture (“How come the good guys with the laptop never have to wait to update their Flash Players when they’re trying to track the bad guys?”), but part of why it feels like you’re always updating... Read more

Who Needs Photoshop? These Pics Prove Timing Is Everything!

Internet Photo and Image May 7, 2015

In the day of Photoshop–not to point fingers and even suggest that the graphic artists who manipulate digital images into stunning pictures are not artists–it’s easy to forget that once upon a time, you had to have a good camera, a great eye for visuals, and a serious amount... Read more

Adobe Updates Lightroom With New Android Features And More

Mobile News Photo and Image Editing May 7, 2015

Adobe recently unveiled huge updates to its Creative Cloud Photography Plan – a $10 per month subscription to Lightroom, Photoshop, and other similar apps. Hogging the spotlight of the update is the sixth major release of Lightroom, now known as Lightroom CC (unless you buy the software separately). The... Read more

Spotify Updates Help Improve The Music Streaming Exerience

Audio Music News April 28, 2015

Music streaming services like Spotify have come a long from the days when industry critics pronounced them the death of music. In fact, the opposite has proven to be true: with the abundance of music options and the ability to sample new artists and even new genres without the... Read more

Need To Convert Video Media? Try Any Video Converter

Desktop News Video April 4, 2015

Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format! It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI... Read more

Google Nexus Player Hits the UK

Gaming Multimedia April 3, 2015

The Asus-made Nexus Player from Google is an Android-powered console that has been designed to run games and media apps, such as Netflix, from the Google Play store. The console comes with a Bluetooth remote with voice search. If you want to you can also spend some extra cash... Read more

Jay Z Relaunches Tidal Streaming Service

Music News March 30, 2015

Jay Z’s recently acquired music streaming service Tidal is kickstarting its first major campaign, #TidalForAll. The campaign is focused on artists changing their profile and background image to a turquoise color. “The Tides They Are-A Changing” #TIDALforALL — Mr. Carter (@S_C_) March 30, 2015 Several prominent artists including Beyonce,... Read more

Need To Capture Your Screen in High Definition? Check Out liteCam HD

How To Software Reviews Video Recording March 29, 2015

Have you ever wanted to record your computer screen but don’t know how? All you need is liteCam HD. liteCam HD is really simple-to-use computer screen recorder, which helps you create professional-looking HD videos with ease. liteCam HD lets you record anything on your PC screen. You can record with... Read more

Facebook Launches Embeddable Video Player

News Social Media Video March 26, 2015

Facebook is getting serious with video. After setting videos to autoplay last year, it is now offering a way to embed the videos using HTML code. YouTube offered the same type of embed code a few years ago. Now, most traffic to YouTube comes from embeds from other sites,... Read more

Spotify Pressuring Music Labels To Cut Freemium Model

Internet Music March 24, 2015

Several major music labels have publicly attacked Spotify’s freemium model, stating the streaming service should remove or severely limit free streaming to gain more customers. It follows a downturn in iTunes and physical sales, with more music listeners moving over to Spotify, Rdio or Pandora. Figures claim over 20... Read more

Want To Try A New Media Player? Check Out Zoom Player Home FREE

Multimedia Software Reviews Windows March 24, 2015

Have you had enough of your media player? Is it slow, maybe unresponsive? Or maybe you don’t like the interface? Why not try Zoom Player. If you are looking for a change to your current media player then Zoom Player may be just what you are looking for. The... Read more