Items Tagged with Cheryl Poirier
Miss Download
#106 / 2010-11-09 17:00:00 / 2:56 min.
If you've ever asked "where does the time go?" or ever wished there were more hours in the day, RescueTime is the app for you. This little widget monitors you web surfing habits and computer tasks and gives you a gauge on how productive you're being. From here you can figure out your most productive times and see some of the pratfalls that trip you up in order to avoid them in the future.
Miss Download
#105 / 2010-11-02 17:00:00 / 2:19 min.
If you're sitting at your desk but you'd rather be at the game... or watching the game... or really, anywhere but your desk,
mini SportsTicker
is the perfect Yahoo! Widget for your sports itch. Get updates across different sports and leagues, up to the minute scores, recent results, see when your favorite team plays next and more with this handy desktop sports ticker widget. Handy for keeping up with the sports nut water cooler talk if nothing else.
Miss Download
#103 / 2010-10-19 17:00:00 / 3:42 min.
If your a choir master, a symphony scorer, a guitar tab guru whose work is known far and wide on the Interwebs, you need to meet Sibelius. This pro-level software lets you create your own sheet music, print it out and even gives you the ability to listen to a MIDI-style playback of your musical opus. Not for the casual musician, this powerful software has just about every tool you could possibly need to score your symphony.
Miss Download
#102 / 2010-10-12 17:00:00 / 3:19 min.
Cheryl is a sucker for weather apps. There's just something about following weather patterns and seeing if the weather is balmy or blustery anywhere. YoWindow shows a graphical representation of the weather in the outside world; see the sunrise and sunset, see what it's going to look like at this time tomorrow and then fly halfway around the world to see what kind of weather your friends in far flung ports are experiencing.
Miss Download
#101 / 2010-10-05 17:00:00 / 2:53 min.
Perhaps you're not interested in shelling out for a Kindle, a Kobo, a Sony Reader, a Nook or other dedicated eBook reader. Perhaps you still want to read a few eBooks though. For you, there's Adobe Digital Editions. With many libraries now offering eBooks, maybe it's time to start paying attention to these pulpless wonders. If you're a proud eReader owner, Adobe Digital Editions is still very helpful in helping to manage your eBook collection, including books on loan from the library.
Miss Download
#100 / 2010-09-28 17:00:00 / 4:00 min.
Cheryl Poirier rediscovers the joys of Google Earth. As a virtual tourist, she travels from the CN Tower and Rogers Centre in downtown Toronto to the base of the Grand Canyon. 3D models in Google Earth make it possible to go from a bird's eye view to a view from the ground while the timeline tool lets you see how a place looks at morning, noon and night.
Miss Download
#99 / 2010-09-21 17:00:00 / 2:28 min.
Spyware. It sounds nasty... and it is. Spyware grabs your information and at its best, creates a marketing profile that is then sold to advertisers. At its worst, it can capture login and password information from your online accounts and this information is sold. See a pattern developing? It's all about the money. Spybot Search and Destroy helps to keep your computer free of this online threat. Fair to say, no computer should be without it.
Miss Download
#98 / 2010-09-14 17:00:00 / 4:00 min.
If you've ever gotten a little trash-happy, clearing files and folders from your Windows machine only to realize you trashed a file that you actually needed, Cheryl's got the perfect PC partner for you. With the aptly named Recuva you can recover just about anything: videos, music, documents, photos... if you've deleted it and need to get it back, you need Recuva.
Miss Download
#97 / 2010-09-07 17:00:00 / 2:20 min.
Metadata, pertinent bits of info that are recorded by your camera when you press the shutter button, can be invaluable to the budding or seasoned photographer. Exifer lets you easily restore EXIF data from an original image and even add tags and other information that will then be embedded into the EXIF. Data like shutter speed and aperture, date, resolution, focal length and a ton of other useful tidbits are there, along with your own categorization tags for easy indexing.
Miss Download
#96 / 2010-08-31 17:00:00 / 4:00 min.
Partitioning your hard drive may sound like an exercise in geekery, but it's actually very simple and there are some really practical reasons you might want to partition a drive. First and foremost, you can create multiple virtual hard drives to store and organize your files or even to hold multiple operating systems on the same computer. For example, you could run Windows 7 and Ubuntu side by side on the same physical machine. Best of all, it's a
free partiton creator and manager
.
Miss Download
#95 / 2010-08-24 17:00:00 / 2:24 min.
If you're looking for the simplest and most cost effective way to edit your home movies, look no further than VideoSpirit Pro. This simple video editor and converter will let you piece together all the vacation footage shot on your camcorder or digital camera and can even convert said video into a universally viewable file type. Your adoring public will be able to watch vids on their iPhone and BlackBerry devices, their set-top boxes, computers and just about any other device going. You can even create a YouTube friendly file for quick uploading and optimized viewing.
Miss Download
#94 / 2010-08-17 17:00:00 / 4:00 min.
Widgets are the apps of the PC world. Miss Download finds a great way to get widgets right on your desktop with Yahoo! Widgets. From picture frames to countdown clocks and desktop pets to news and weather feeds, Yahoo! Widgets' developer community has you covered.
Miss Download
#93 / 2010-08-10 17:00:00 / 2:50 min.
Remember to never forget your online passwords or failing that, forget about remembering them altogether (whoa) with Sticky Password. This handy password keeper remembers your passwords for you so you'll never again be stuck trying to get into your email, online shopping or banking sites.
Miss Download
#92 / 2010-08-03 17:00:00 / 2:11 min.
PDFs are the easiest way to ensure that your documents will look the same on any computer or device. In fact, they're the only way to guarantee that your resume, cover letter, desktop publishing or school project won't have any weird font issues, page breaks or misaligned pictures. Miss Download finds Free PDF Converter to, as the name suggests, convert all your documents, web pages and more into PDF.
Miss Download
#91 / 2010-07-27 17:00:00 / 3:33 min.
Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, finds a way to make her webcam chats more interesting. WebcamMax software lets you change up your webcam video with neat effects, adornments like hats, glasses, wigs and so on. In the free version, Miss D whets her appetite for silly webcam effects; by dropping $50 on the full version of the software, she'll unlock literally thousands of new effects and add ons.
Miss Download
#90 / 2010-07-20 17:00:00 / 2:56 min.
With PCsync and a special USB cable, you can easily connect two PCs, a PC and a laptop, a Mac and a PC or any combination thereof to transfer files. Simply link the two computers and then drag and drop files from one to the other. Miss Download likes it when things just work.
Miss Download
#89 / 2010-07-13 17:00:00 / 2:45 min.
If you're looking for a simple way to share your photos with friends and family and a new way to display your photos, look no further than Flash Slideshow Creator. Drop your photos into the program and you can output fantastic slideshows as a Flash file which means just about anyone that you send it to can view it without having to download anything. You can also post it to your own site easily.
Miss Download
#88 / 2010-07-06 17:00:00 / 2:13 min.
If you're stuck with an ailing PC not fit to write a spreadsheet much less play the latest games, meet GameGain. It won't take your office-configured desktop from weak to elite, but if you've got a gaming system already, this software is designed to eke out every bit of performance from the hardware possible. It could mean the difference between playing your new game in 640x480 or in all its full-screen glory.
Miss Download
#87 / 2010-06-29 17:00:00 / 2:20 min.
If you're anything like us, you have at least three or four handles across the different instant messaging (IM) servies. Google Talk, MSN, AIM, Facebook Chat, Jabber, etc., etc.. Trillian lets you keep all these IMs and more organized and in one place. No more firing up multiple messengers in order to track down that elusive IM contact.
Miss Download
#86 / 2010-06-22 17:00:00 / 2:59 min.
If you've ever lost your little black book, misplaced your hand-written address book or otherwise been without a way to contact all the people that are important to you, take heed. Cheryl discovers Telist Pro, a simple way to manage all your contacts on your Windows PC. It's easier than hand writing, can be easily backed up and will remind you of birthdays, anniversaries and other pertinent data that relates to your contact list.
Miss Download
#85 / 2010-06-15 17:00:00 / 4:38 min.
If you've ever wanted to
become a spammer
or, alternately (and preferably)send legitimate mass emails
to people that have requested them, you need to meet SendBlaster Pro. With this handy download you can administer a mailing list andeasily send mass emails
. To people who have OPTED IN. Got that? Opted in; that's important.
Miss Download
#84 / 2010-06-08 17:00:00 / 4:48 min.
Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow? Cheryl finds a new way to procrastinate while still feeling a sense of accomplishment. BrainsBreaker (don't let the name turn you off) is a digital take on the classic jigsaw puzzle. You can create your own custom puzzle from an image on your computer in the full version or use one of the pre-loaded puzzles in the trial version.
Miss Download
#82 / 2010-05-25 17:00:00 / 5:44 min.
If you're creating your own comic book, making a typographic logo for your business or if you simply have a Geocities-era Web page, meet Font Magic. This
free Windows software
goes way beyond simple typography to let youcreate 3D fonts
and titles all your own.
Miss Download
#81 / 2010-05-18 17:00:00 / 3:21 min.
If you're training for a marathon, like our own Miss Download, you'll probably want to track your running pace in addition to your run times and distance travelled. Pace Calculator 2 is free software that, with a little data from you, gives an accurate measurement of your running pace.
Miss Download
#80 / 2010-05-11 17:00:00 / 3:38 min.
If you've ever tried to offer remote support to a friend, family member or colleague, you know how frustrating it can be. Dutifully, the support recipient tries to explain the problem. Dutifully, you try to explain the solution. Invariably though, wires get crossed. Enter TeamViewer 5. With this remote support software, you can securely log on to a remote computer and take control to fix the problem or demonstrate the solution.
Miss Download
#79 / 2010-05-04 17:00:00 / 4:00 min.
Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, takes a look at QBrew;
free software for home beer brewing
. If you're an old hand at making your own beer at home, you'll feel right at home here. You can manage your ownfull-grain brewing recipes
, get specific gravity measures, an International Bitterness Unit maximum and minimum based on how much hops you use and create your own brewing notes. It's also perfect for anyone looking to move beyond beer brewing from kits.
Miss Download
#78 / 2010-04-27 17:00:00 / 2:49 min.
If you like to use (or even misuse) words then you'll love WordWeb. It's a small but helpful program that can give you the
definitions of words or act as a spell-checker
. It also connects to Wikipedia, Wiktionary and WordWeb Online for more information on highlighted words. Here Miss Download shows youhow to use WordWeb
and how it can help everyone with proper pronunciation.
Miss Download
#77 / 2010-04-20 17:00:00 / 4:00 min.
Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, reveals her unhealthy love affair with sticky notes. On her mirror, on her front door, on the fridge and even on her computer screen. Sacrilege! She discovers the cold turkey cure for her sticky note jones in Evernote. A
free online service
that helps her keep everything organized... including jotted notes.
Miss Download
#76 / 2010-04-13 17:00:00 / 4:00 min.
Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, unlocks the power of the cloud using Dropbox to
transfer files between computers and between people
. Whether she's across the room or across the globe, Dropbox makes it easy to keep important documents at her fingertips and she always has the most current version; no more need for a USB key sneakernet.
Miss Download
#75 / 2010-04-06 17:00:00 / 4:58 min.
April 15th approaches and with it, the long queues at the post office, the frantic rush to find all those receipts, pay stubs, canceled checks, etc. Cheryl Poirier discovers TaxAct
tax preparation software
to help ease the pain. You can complete and thene-file taxes online
to avoid the aforementioned queues anddo your taxes without (too much) stress
.
Miss Download
#74 / 2010-03-30 17:00:00 / 4:00 min.
Miss Download has had enough of waiting for her photo attachments to send to friends and family. She's had enough of email size restrictions and enough of not being able to share her photos quickly and easily. Enter
Zoomfoot Send Photo
. Thisfree software
makes it quick and easy to upload files, folders and photos up to 4GB.
Miss Download
#73 / 2010-03-23 17:00:00 / 4:00 min.
Taking screenshots on your PC
: hit the Print Screen button on your keyboard to save the screen to the clipboard, paste it into Paint or similar, save the file. Yascu makes it painfully simple tocapture all or a part of your screen
. Thefree Windows screen capture tool
lets you take five screenshots at a time. The paid version does away with this limitation and adds some other features to the mix for your $12.
On Deck
#56 / 2010-02-19 17:00:00 / 3:39 min.
Matt catches up with the always affable, the certainly cheerful, the ever effervescent Cheryl Poirier on the set of Miss Download. Cheryl gives a sneak peak at what's coming up on Miss Download in the coming weeks.
Miss Download
#67 / 2010-02-09 17:00:00 / 3:36 min.
If you've ever gotten lost while relying on your in-car GPS, or for the truckers, if you've ever gotten a fine for using a car-only road or even hit a bridge while hauling a load, check out Fugawi Global Navigator. You can pre-plan a route,
navigate using GPS on your laptop
, or even print off your maps and navigate the old school way. Accordion-style map folding instructions not included.
Miss Download
#66 / 2010-02-02 17:00:00 / 3:15 min.
Kiwi Application Monitor keeps the kiddies in check when they're on the computer. Find out if they're telling the truth when they say they've only been online for five minutes. Moreover though, you can delve into some of the more advanced features of this app to set memory usage limitations on certain programs, kill a program that's eating all your CPU cycles and more. Heck, you can even kick the kids off of MSN Messenger after they've been online for half an hour, block Internet access and much more. They'll thank you for it... just not right away.
Miss Download
#65 / 2010-01-26 17:00:00 / 2:43 min.
Handbrake lets you
rip DVDs and convert videos
into a portable-friendly format. It also makes it easy to convert videos to a format that your Xbox 360 or PS3 can read. Did we mention it's free? In short, you can turn just about any video format into just about any other video file format without the hassle or geek speak. What's not to love?
Miss Download
#64 / 2010-01-19 17:00:00 / 3:02 min.
Miss Download's laptop is, how to we say this nicely... archaic. Whenever she installs or downloads something, she's rightly worried that she's going to fill up her hard drive. Thanks to Disk Space Inspector, she can get a visual representation of how much space is left on her puny drive. Turns out, she's got almost 80GB free... but that's not even enough for a season of Stargate SG-1 in HD. Fortunately, she can also check the storage space on remote or local network drives to see if her network attached storage drive (NAS) has room to spare.
Miss Download
#63 / 2010-01-12 15:53:46 / 4:00 min.
Coming up with a business plan for your project can be intimidating. However, it's also necessary to secure funding, business loans and to keep your business on track. Ultimate Business Planner helps you
write an effective business plan
complete with informative tutorial text and smart tips. A simple wizard will even help you to determine if your business idea is viable.
Miss Download
#62 / 2010-01-05 17:00:00 / 3:45 min.
Tired of drinking from the fire hose, Miss Download learns how to
manage social media mayhem
using thefree software
TweetDeck. With thisAdobe Air
app, social media turns from being an overwhelming waterfall to a manageable stream.
Miss Download
#61 / 2009-12-22 17:00:00 / 4:02 min.
Miss Download will be home for Christmas. You can count on her. Cheryl Poirier shows off Perfect Pitch Guitar Tuner. This
free guitar tuner software
can be used for much more than just guitars; it can tune just about any stringed instrument. It can even warm up our own Miss Download's voice so she can belt out a Christmas classic with special guest Danielle.
Miss Download
#60 / 2009-12-15 17:00:00 / 3:29 min.
Miss Download gets to the bottom of a particularly sticky mystery: Where can one find a that look great and play well but that's easy on system resources. Nancy Drew Dossier: Resorting to Danger delivers and Cheryl moves her way from gumshoe to super sleuth.
Lab Rats
#200 / 2009-12-14 17:00:00 / 16:17 min.
To celebrate their 200th episode, Andy and Sean reminisce about what's happened to the world of Lab Rats over the last 100 episodes, and pick some of their favourite moments...and one not-so-favourite moment.
Miss Download
#59 / 2009-12-08 17:00:00 / 3:28 min.
Miss Download takes a shot at the 800-pound gorillas of the movie industry by organizing her own independent film using Gorilla Software. This powerful software helps you to
organize your independent film
by taking care of everything from scheduling to storyboarding, location scouting to cast and crew.
Miss Download
#56 / 2009-11-17 17:00:00 / 2:48 min.
While great strides have been made in PC energy efficiency, your lowly PC is still a strain on the grid your pocket if you accidentally leave it running all hours of the day. PC Auto Shutdown will step up to turn off your PC when you forget to.
Miss Download
#55 / 2009-11-10 17:00:00 / 3:36 min.
Touch typing
is a valuable skill; the hunt and peck method is not only lame, it's also inaccurate, slow and... did we mention lame? Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, taps into her inner typist to become a Typing Master with simple software exercises and games.
Miss Download
#54 / 2009-11-03 17:00:00 / 3:02 min.
Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, takes a close look at Mozilla's Thunderbird 2, from the same people that brought us the Firefox browser. She's loving the email labeling and foldering system as well as the search field and the Thunderbird add-ons that power up your email experience.
Miss Download
#53 / 2009-10-27 17:00:00 / 3:29 min.
Flickr Uploadr is free software that makes it easier than ever to get photos from your PC to the web in just a few simple steps. Uploading pics of her various Halloween costume experiments, Cheryl Poirier shows off this
free download
that makesonline photo sharing
simple.
Miss Download
#52 / 2009-10-20 17:00:00 / 3:32 min.
Password protecting all or part of your web site
is a great way to ensure that only people who should be accessing portions of your site are able to do so. For example, if you have pictures of your kids posted online and you want to make sure only people who you specifically want to be seeing said pictures can view them, you might want to password protect the photos portion of your site. If you need to protect customers' personal information on your site, the same logic applies. HTML Password Wizard is a great and simple way to secure all or a portion of your site.
Miss Download
#51 / 2009-10-13 17:00:00 / 3:44 min.
If you're anything like Miss Download, AKA Cheryl Poirier, you probably lose all track of time when you sit down at the computer. Geek Alarm forces you to take a break by locking you out of your computer. Irritating, sure, but it's for the greater good. As Cheryl explains though, Geek Alarm also offers a more passive reminder mode that simply reminds you to take a break as opposed to forcing you to do so.
Miss Download
#50 / 2009-10-06 17:00:00 / 2:33 min.
Miss Download shows her support for the breast cancer research cause by doffing her shirt and doing her 50th show in her bra. Pink, of course, as pink is the color associated with breast cancer awareness. She shows Miss Download viewers an easy way to get involved in the fight to raise awareness of and hopefully see a cure for breast cancer in our lifetime. The Pink Ribbon Toolbar is free software that allows you to contribute just by web searching, Facebooking, shopping and generally using the Internet as you would otherwise.
Miss Download
#49 / 2009-09-29 17:00:00 / 4:00 min.
What do you do if the urge to play piano overtakes you in the airport? At work, while having coffee or just about anywhere else your laptop is but your piano isn't? If you're Cheryl Poirier, you bust out TinyPiano and do a rousing rendition of a Jason Mraz tune.
Miss Download
#48 / 2009-09-22 17:00:00 / 4:19 min.
The aptly named Movie Collector helps you organize and
keep track of your movie collection
. Want to see who has your Blu-ray copy of Spiderman? Where your copy of The Shawshank Redemption has gotten to? Who's the inconsiderate person that's had your favorite movie of all time for more than three months? It's all here in Movie Collector.
Miss Download
#44 / 2009-08-25 17:00:00 / 2:46 min.
Different
media file types
, differentvideo codecs
, different media players. Sometimes, homogeneity is best... such is the case withvideo file formats and codecs
. It's much simpler to convert videos to your favorite file format than to manage multiple players, multiple media codecs and multiple file formats. Enter Miss Download, showing off the Extensoft Free Video Converter. This handyfree video converter
lets youconvert video files
quickly and easily.get downloaded videos onto your iPod or other video player
, play videos on your TV and more.
Miss Download
#43 / 2009-08-18 17:00:00 / 4:18 min.
In search of a solution for her exploding
recipe collection
, Cheryl Poirier AKA Miss Download went searching for a way toorganize and clean up her recipe collection
and found AccuChef. This handy software suite comes with 185 tasty recipes and makes it easy to add new recipes from a variety of sources. It'll even give a nutritional profile and cost analysis of the recipes you want to make and create a shopping list for you. Now if it could just pre-heat the oven and chop the onions...
Miss Download
#42 / 2009-08-11 17:00:00 / 3:42 min.
Ahh, LEGO. Long the domain of kids and geeky kids at heart. It's so binary: little nubbly things on one side, nubbly thing receptacles on the other. On or off. 1 or 0. Perhaps that's why Miss Download loves it so. With our favorite download to date, Cheryl Poirer showcases
LEGO Digital Designer
. This software lets you play withdigital LEGO
and best of all, it'sfree software
. You can even dofreestyle LEGO building
on the PC and order thephysical LEGO bricks
along with instructions to recreate yourvirtual LEGO masterpiece
in the real world.
Miss Download
#41 / 2009-08-04 17:00:00 / 5:27 min.
The perfect table plan keeps Aunt Mabel away from Grandma Philips... since that nasty incident over the heirloom punchbowl. It sits single friends with other single friends so there's the potential for a wedding day hook-up, cousins with cousins... hopefully without the chance of a wedding day hook-up as that would just be weird. In short, the perfect table plan takes myriad factors into account to come up with the best possible seating arrangement for a wedding or other special occasion. Enter Miss Download with PerfectTablePlan. It's way easier the the old pen and paper approach to creating a seating plan.
Miss Download
#40 / 2009-07-28 17:00:00 / 2:58 min.
Having already gotten her great North American novel started thanks to yWriter, Cheryl Poirier figures it's time to think about cashing in with a screenplay. Enter Final Draft, a
Now if she can just get a studio to option the thing she'll be in good shape.
powerful script writing program
that makes it easy towrite a screenplay
and keep all the characters, storylines and plot twists straight.Now if she can just get a studio to option the thing she'll be in good shape.
Miss Download
#39 / 2009-07-21 17:00:00 / 3:18 min.
On a mission to
Like
keep the kids busy over summer holiday
, Cheryl goes looking for cost-effective fun for kids. She finds Paper Craft from Yamaha. Yes, that Yamaha...Like
origami
for the digital age, thesefree PDF paper craft template downloads
cover everything from endangered animals to motorbikes to insects and much more. Download a few: paper craft is a great way to keep kids occupied over break.
Miss Download
#38 / 2009-07-14 17:00:00 / 3:05 min.
On the hunt for a utility that will make her computer a little bit more environmentally friendly, Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download found the Green Toolbar and PC Utility. This little toolbar is rides along with your favorite browser, is fairly unobtrusive and helps you to set up the most
earth-friendly power and printer settings
possible. It also offers fun links to green news, helpfulearth-friendly tips
.
Miss Download
#37 / 2009-07-07 17:00:00 / 3:26 min.
Is it time to send your
, if you have a music collection that predates your first iPod and subsequent switch to iTunes, the answer is likely yes. Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download takes a close look at TuneUp, the ultimate clean-up tool for cleaning up your iTunes music library.
iTunes library
in for some scheduled maintenance? If you have a library filled with helpful descriptive song titles like "Track 2," or if you havemislabeled songs
, if you'remissing album art
, if you have a music collection that predates your first iPod and subsequent switch to iTunes, the answer is likely yes. Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download takes a close look at TuneUp, the ultimate clean-up tool for cleaning up your iTunes music library.
Miss Download
#36 / 2009-06-30 17:00:00 / 2:55 min.
Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download went on the hunt for fast, simple and effective
CD and DVD burning software
and found the answer to her disc-authoring woes with Ashampoo Burning Studio. This powerful and streamlinedCD and DVD authoring software
is simple and does everything you need to do with discs! Plus, if you're rocking aBlu-ray burner
, Ashampoo has you covered as it even lets youburn Blu-ray discs
.
Miss Download
#35 / 2009-06-23 17:00:00 / 3:06 min.
Many Mac users are already familiar with Growl. This software gives you notifications for things that happen on your PC. When a friend comes online, a new email is received, a file download finishes or the now-playing song changes in iTunes, Growl will tell you. You can also choose where Growl pops up to notify you, unlike a lot of the other notification pop-ups (or "digital toast") we have to deal with. The Windows version doesn't have quite the polish of the Mac version, but it's a good start.
Miss Download
#34 / 2009-06-16 17:00:00 / 2:30 min.
Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, somehow managed to obliterate
Microsoft Office
from her home PC only to discover theopen source equivalent to Office, OpenOffice.org
. Not a moment too soon either; she had an important spreadsheet due in two days' time!
Miss Download
#33 / 2009-06-09 17:00:00 / 2:16 min.
Cheryl Poirier AKA Miss Download takes a look at Webroot Spy Sweeper, an anti-spywyare, anti-malware program for your Windows PC. With this program, you can keep your PC running clean and spyware free. Cheryl likes it so much, it's the spyware solution she uses on her home PC.
Miss Download
#32 / 2009-06-02 17:00:00 / 3:35 min.
SkiniTunes is a powerful little iTunes add-on that gives you two unobtrusive player interfaces, allows for customization with skins, displays album art, offers hotkeys to control your music and even song lyrics for your iTunes library. In short, it brings extra functionality to your music library with both the free basic version and the US$4.99 Pro version.
Miss Download
#31 / 2009-05-26 17:00:00 / 3:37 min.
Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, finds a great 3D virtual desktop that mimics the look and feel of a real-world desk. You can post sticky notes, hang pictures on the wall, use Twitter, send emails, upload photos to Facebook and more. Just like a real desk, you can stack or fan-out documents and arrange things in pile right from this virtual cubicle.
Miss Download
#30 / 2009-05-19 17:00:00 / 2:50 min.
Cheryl Poirier runs down her favorite new download: Orb. This slick program lets you access your music, movies and other media from anywhere on any computer or online device. You can even connect your home PC to a video source and get free streaming over the Net... like a SlingBox but free!
Miss Download
#29 / 2009-05-12 17:00:00 / 2:57 min.
Tired of living in fear of another system meltdown, Cheryl went looking for a reliable, simple, safe and secure backup solution. She found it with Carbonite Backup. Carbonite backs data up to an off-site server, storing it in an encrypted file that only she can access with her password.
Miss Download
#28 / 2009-05-05 17:00:00 / 3:12 min.
Budgets aren't fun and they aren't sexy. They are, however, completely necessary. Cheryl Porier, AKA Miss Download, takes a look at BankTree Personal Finance and loves how easy, intuitive and relatively painless it can be to track money coming in and money going out.
Miss Download
#27 / 2009-04-28 17:00:00 / 3:08 min.
Ever wondered what that great landscape pic would look like as a watercolor painting? Or wished you had that great portrait shot as a pencil sketch? Miss Download delivers with AKVIS Sketch, a program that does these things and many more, quickly and easily.
Miss Download
#24 / 2009-04-07 17:00:00 / 2:25 min.
Cheryl Poirier takes a look at Google's long-awaited entry into the "browser wars," Google Chrome. It's the newest browser on the block and does away with the user interface flair in favor of speed, simplicity and security.
Heck, Google probably already knows where you live, why not let it know your browsing habits too? We kid, sharing browsing data with Google is, of course, optional.
Miss Download
#23 / 2009-03-31 17:00:00 / 2:17 min.
Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, goes looking for a way to help her friend communicate with family via Facebook. Easy, right? Perhaps not: said family is in Italy, speaks very little English and, to make matters worse, Cheryl's friend speaks very little Italian.
Enter Babylon 7, a full-featured translation program that eases culture gaps and jumps over language barriers.
Enter Babylon 7, a full-featured translation program that eases culture gaps and jumps over language barriers.
Miss Download
#21 / 2009-03-17 17:00:00 / 2:14 min.
In her unending quest to find the best tools to keep your PC running smoothly, Cheryl Poirer came across Uniblue DiskRescue. DiskRescue gets a spot in her PC toolbox because it is easy to use, simple and gives an ailing PC a new lease on life.
On Deck
#21 / 2009-03-13 17:00:00 / 2:50 min.
Matt Harris catches up with Cheryl Poirier, better known to butterscotch visitors as Miss Download. Matt shows off the newly soundproofed studio and to celebrate this auspicious occasion, Miss Download bursts into song with an showtunes ode to DivX Player and DivX Converter, covered in episode 25 of Miss Download.
Miss Download
#19 / 2009-03-03 17:00:00 / 4:00 min.
What do you do when you want to know what the weather is like but you don't want to venture outside to find out? You look it up on your PC, of course! WeatherEye PC is a great desktop weather watcher that Miss Download came across in her online travels and just had to share.
Miss Download
#17 / 2009-02-17 17:00:00 / 2:38 min.
Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, has made a pledge to herself to get better organized. This may be a familiar promise to you, one you've made to yourself. We can certainly relate.
Cheryl highlights Quick-To-Do Pro, a software suite for the PC the promises to help you get and stay organized with its extensive calendar, to-do and scheduling functions.
Cheryl highlights Quick-To-Do Pro, a software suite for the PC the promises to help you get and stay organized with its extensive calendar, to-do and scheduling functions.
Miss Download
#16 / 2009-02-10 17:00:00 / 3:29 min.
You've probably heard of Brain Age on the Nintendo DS, the game that claims to help exercise your brain by presenting logic, memory and other mental acuity puzzles. The ever intrepid Cheryl Poirier, realizing that a similar thing must exist for the computer, went looking. She found Addicting Clicking and her brain has never been in such good shape.
On Deck
#17 / 2009-02-06 17:00:00 / 6:03 min.
Matt Harris has Andrew M-C back on the On Deck deck, despite the hard pack snow layer and -10 degree (Celsius) weather, for the announcement of a brand new butterscotch.com show. While the title is to be determined, this new show will let viewers know what's coming up for the next week on butterscotch.com. What each show has in store, what tutorials are going to be running on the site and any other exciting news that comes up in the world of butterscotch.
Miss Download
#15 / 2009-01-27 12:00:00 / 3:23 min.
Looking for writing software that would help her pen her book and get her out of this Miss Download gig once and for all, Cheryl found yWriter 5. This free word processor is designed with writers in mind; you can enter any idea you have in any order and then shuffle the pieces around until you have the Great American Novel.
Miss Download
#13 / 2009-01-13 17:00:00 / 3:31 min.
Cheryl just got back from a trip to Vancouver, BC and has a fun, informative and all together helpful download that helped her find her way around town while in an unfamiliar land. It's called Schmap and it's almost as much fun as it sounds!
Miss Download
#12 / 2009-01-06 09:00:00 / 2:26 min.
Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, finds another tool in her PC mechanic arsenal. Drivers are little bits of software that tell your computer how to use all the different components that make up your PC. Uniblue DriverScanner 2009 searches your computer to find any missing or out of date drivers and automagically updates them and fixes and problems.
Miss Download
#11 / 2008-12-30 09:00:00 / 3:08 min.
Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, got a little worried when she heard the Lab Rats guys talking about all the radio waves that a whizzing around. The only logical thing to do was to find a download that would protect her precious grey matter: enter the aluminum foil deflector beanie!
Miss Download
#10 / 2008-12-16 17:00:00 / 2:55 min.
Cheryl Poirier takes a look at the open source (read: free) audio editor Audacity. Playing the audio layer from a Miss Download episode in reverse, she searches for hidden messages...
On Deck
#8 / 2008-12-05 17:00:00 / 2:54 min.
Another departure from the On Deck deck, Matt speaks to Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download on the set of the upcoming butterscotch.com Holiday Gadget Show.
Miss Download
Host: Cheryl Poirier
Cheryl Poirier gives the scoop on the best software you didn't even know you needed. Miss Download is always on the lookout for fresh, powerful, fun and useful software that's worth the download. Speed up your computer, watch TV on your PC, get tips for ergonomic computer use and much more.
Cheryl Poirier gives the scoop on the best software you didn't even know you needed. Miss Download is always on the lookout for fresh, powerful, fun and useful software that's worth the download. Speed up your computer, watch TV on your PC, get tips for ergonomic computer use and much more.
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