What Essential Windows Software Do You Recommend?
So I’ve started a new job today (will blog about that later) and my new employer has just sent me a brand new Windows laptop, and that means immediately getting to the task of loading it up with...
View ArticleOptimus Maximus OLED Keyboard Ships! See the Video…
Egadget.com has a video that show the Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard being installed, setup, Configured, and used! A couple of years ago, Art Lebedev Studio showed a prototype of their Optimus Maximus...
View ArticleThe Amazing World Wide Telescope
The World Wide Telescope is a project from Microsoft Research that made Robert Scoble cry, is now being featured on the latest round of TED Talks. This product looks truly amazing and will probably...
View ArticleWindows Vista Gem – Snipping Tool
Well it has been almost 2 months since my switch from OSX to Vista for my day job. Overall, I’m liking Vista more than I thought – although I still get confused between the ctrl and command keys. One...
View ArticleEnergy Saving Disappearing Ink
I’ve always preferred to read documents on paper as opposed to on screen, but I know that the Earth would probably prefer that I not use my printer as much as I do. Disappearing ink sound like an...
View ArticleDesktop 2 Login
Desktop 2 Login is a nice little utility that matches the Leopard Login Screen background image to whatever the current user’s Desktop picture is. This eliminates the visual transition from the login...
View ArticleTurn Mac Function Keys into “Real” Function Keys
I’ve been doing my Flex development on both a Mac and Windows PC lately and one thing that has really been bothering me is the extra “Fn” key that I have to press to Run a project from within Flex...
View ArticleExtract Multiple Zip Files
Here’s a little piece of help. If you find yourself having to extract multiple zip files frequently, you’d be well-served giving ExtractNow a shot. It’s not new but I found helpful for a recent task,...
View ArticleMedia Converter Online
Here’s a list of nine media converters from Digital Media Minute listed by OS and price, emphasizing recent releases that are either freeware or at least with free trials offered. This list is by no...
View ArticleConverticon
If you want to convert ICO, PNG, GIF, and JPEG file formats and export to PNG or ICO, check out converticon. No registration, nothing to download, free–it’s a minimalist masterpiece, and handy for...
View ArticleOverlapping Windows Cure
Check out Divvy, which will help you organize your desktop by creating custom panels to keep your windows from overlapping. You can set panel sizes to whatever you’d like and control everything with...
View ArticleProcessing Excel Tables In Java
Here is a very nice utility for processing Excel tables in Java with an annotation-based approach: the yava Excel stripper. all that you will require to give this functionality a test run is Excel...
View ArticleAutomatic Screen Brightness Adjustment
If you are often looking into your screen well into the evening (who isn’t?) you might want to try f.lux, which adjusts the brightness (or more accurately, the color temperature) of your screen based...
View ArticleThe Best Editor For Huge Text Files?
Over on ZDNet, Ed Burnette tells us why EmEditor is the best editor for editing very large files (2+ GB). Again were talking about files that are over two GB, and I know I have opened enormous text...
View ArticleBatch File Renaming On OS X
File this one in helpful applications for Mac that you should at least be aware of if you are a Mac user: StevenF shares his enthusiasm for the easy-to-use Automator for batch file renames. It’s also...
View ArticleFree Online File Converter
Mark this in the very cool utilities category – MediaConverter is a web based tool that will convert files from one format to another. The lists of files it can handle is impressive: MP3 WMV 3GP AMR...
View ArticleOmniGraffle HTML Wireframe Palette
Michael Angeles has created a fantastic OmniGraffle HTML Wireframe Palette that will take your wireframe diagrams to the next level. OmniGraffle is a Mac OSX only diagramming tool that can be used for...
View ArticleMaking Your Own Adium Message Style
A (sort of) Quick Introduction to making your own Adium Message Style is a tutorial I am going to put on my todo list! Adium is my favorite IM client for OSX and I just found out that you can...
View ArticleIt’s Never Been Easier to Create a Favicon
Here is a great tool that that makes it super easy to create a favicon.ico file for your website. favikon is a slick little web app that lets you upload any image you like, crop and resize it, then...
View ArticleFileZilla FTP Client is now Cross Plaform
Before I rid myself of my Windows based PC’s, like a lot of people FileZilla was my Win32 choice for FTP clients. It was open source and worked reliably and well with FTP and SFTP sites. Now...
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