When we need to do a report of all our activities on screen, being it for control or for an explanatory video, a good program that can help us is CamStudio. This complete application allows us to record image as well as sound, and even incorporating explanatory sheets to our works.

Choosing a video editor program that gathers all the necessary tools to create media contents with surprisingly professional results can be a difficult task. Among some of the most popular alternatives, and of which we’ll do a brief comparative analysis, we can find: SONY Vegas Pro, Windows Movie Maker, VirtualDub and SuperDVD Video Editor.

A good option when creating animations and GIF format banners for our web pages is Advanced GIF Animator. This application is really practical and of easy and intuitive use, with many options to take advantage from. To create an animation, once we open the program, we select File>New, and an emerging window will pop up asking to list all the images to be included on the animation.

Windows 7, like it happened with Vista before, is characterized for being able to play without any problems a great number of audio and video files. What’s true about this, is that many times, the codecs that it comes with by default, are not enough, not being able to play an important amount of formats (even some of the most popular ones).Fortunately, Win7codecs happened, a complete codec pack that, without a doubt, will save time and disappointments when playing any type of audio and video file.

PDF is a format for documents that has achieved a great popularity the last years, and has became a standard. However, the main applications don’t produce them automatically, they use their own formats. To help us with this problem, there are other programs like Pdf995, PrimoPDF, doPDF and Easy PDF, that we’ll analyze on this article.

Windows Live Messenger is one of the main instant messaging applications of the moment, through which we have contact with our friends and relatives. Taking into account its extensive use, the creation of Messenger Plus! Live Live was something expected by all the users.

As we’ve known for quite some time, Microsoft was seriously interested in extending its Bing navigator and Windows Live Messenger for Apple’s portable devices (for iPod as well as for iPhone). The interesting news for the users of these devices and for those who prefer Microsoft’s search engine over Google’s, is that it was moved forward the launch of at least one of these applications and now it is possible to use Bing on Apple mobiles.

Nowadays we are used to work with Internet everyday that we forgot about the threats our computer might face. Our PC is extremely useful but as any other tool, it requires maintenance and protection. With Avira we can protect our computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans and costly dialers.

Google just announced the launch of Goggles, which if continues to be developed, without a doubt it’ll change the concept of internet search. For now, it’s only available for the Android systems, and it can be bought over the phone accessing AndroidMarket

Apparently, Google, the most important internet search engine, not only leads the market in that field, but also in the development of applications. This can be seen in the continuous avant-garde tools that introduces daily. This time around, and added to its new feature called “Historic Images”, which allows you to see almost any spot on Earth and “go back in time” to be witness of their evolution, now it’s possible to superimpose to Google Earth certain antique maps to go back in time even further.