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Ubuntu Tweak
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 | Author:

images If you’re looking for a program that will make Ubuntu just a little easier to use when it comes to tweaking settings and installing software (not that it’s all to difficult in the first place) then check out Ubuntu Tweak.

“Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier for everyone. It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn’t provide. With its help, you will enjoy with the experience of Ubuntu!”

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Windows 7 Network Activity Indicator
Monday, December 21st, 2009 | Author:

network-activity-indicator[1] In older version of Windows, when you were connected to a network, there was a small icon in the system tray that blinked showing network activity. In Windows 7 you just get an icon that shows whether you’re connected, activity or not. To get that icon back just download and install the free Network Activity Indicator for Windows 7 from Igor Tolmachev. I installed it on my home desktop over the weekend and I’ve had blinky goodness ever since.

Igor also has a few other networking tools you might want to check out while you’re there.

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Check out Office 2010
Monday, November 23rd, 2009 | Author:

Microsoft is now offering a public beta of Microsoft 2010. As far as I can tell, anyone can download it from Microsoft. You’ll have to register but they seem to be accepting anyone willing to play with it. I’ve been using the Technical Preview on one of my laptops for a few months now and installed the beta last week. First, I’m impressed. Second, it’s stable. Third, it’s completely compatible with Office 2007. (As far as I can tell.) Here’s some screenshots:

Excel 2010 a

 Excel 2010 b

 Outlook 2010 a

 Outlook 2010 b

 PowerPoint 2010 a

 PowerPoint 2010 b

 Word 2010 a

 Word 2010 b

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Integrate SkyDrive into Windows
Friday, November 20th, 2009 | Author:

headerWindows Live SkyDrive is yet another one of those online storage solutions. (And not even the only one from Microsoft.) I haven’t used it as much as I might like mainly because it was yet another cloud storage system that you had to access through a Web browser. In other words, it wasn’t transparent to use.

If you download and install SkyDrive Explorer your SkyDrive is now presented as just another drive on your computer, even though it’s online storage. Once installed, just open “computer” and you’ll see SkyDrive Explorer listed there. 

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Just open that up as you would any other drive and you’ll have access to all of your SkyDrive-based files and folder. (You will be asked to log in first of course.) Additionally, if you’ve made a file public, you can right-click on that file and get the public URL for that file automatically copied to your clipboard for easy pasting into an e-mail or blog post.

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I’ve still got Drop.io, and Dropbox accounts but this one does make Live SkyDrive seem just a little bit easier to use than those others.

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Uplodad to flickr in the off hours
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | Author:

FileDownload I’ve not used this yet because I totally love uploading to flickr via Windows Live Photo Gallery. However, flickr schedulr has one distinctly interesting feature: the ability to schedule when uploads happen. Think about it, set it up to upload your photos overnight when your shared neighborhood bandwidth is much more available.

Flickr Schedulr is a Windows desktop application that automatically uploads pictures to Flickr based on a schedule (e.g. to post a new picture every day at a certain time). It allows you to create a queue of pictures to be uploaded, along with their titles, descriptions, tags, and the photoset into which they should end up.

Features

  • Easily maintain a queue of pictures to be uploaded to Flickr.
  • Edit the title, description, tags and visibility settings for each picture, and optionally the photosets and groups to which the picture must be added.
  • Get a visual overview of the queue through the inline picture previews.
  • Drag and drop pictures onto the queue from Windows Explorer.
  • When present in the file, automatically retrieves the title, description and tags from the picture when it is added to the queue.
  • Warns you if there are pictures in your queue that are larger than the maximum file size you are allowed to upload.
  • Can be run from the command line with the “/upload” switch to upload the next picture in the queue.
  • Keeps a history of all pictures that have been uploaded.
  • Shows you all your important account information, e.g. your remaining upload quota.
  • Import and export the configuration (containing queued and uploaded pictures).
  • All settings are automatically saved when you close the application.
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Kindle for PC
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | Author:

Now you can read Kindle books on your computer.

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  • Get the best reading experience available on your PC. No Kindle required
  • Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you
  • Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync
  • Create bookmarks and view the annotations you created on your Kindle
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XP Quick Fix Plus
Monday, November 09th, 2009 | Author:

qfx1 What little time I had at home this weekend I spent upgrading my Vista x64 system to Windows 7 Home Premium x64. A blog post on that experience is forthcoming. However, those of you still on XP might be interested in XP Quick Fix Plus.

There are a lot of excellent free Windows comprehensive repairing and fixing tools around the internet.

But there are times when you want just one quick fix for example when you are under a virus attack and you just want to enable the Task Manager or the Registry Editor so you can fight the virus back, or when some new installation changed your XP behavior and My Documents opens on every start up.

This is the right time to draw XP Quick Fix Plus with 40 common Windows XP problems fixes, only 0.58mb, portable, small and fast, a must have on every computer and with a small extra, a command line utility to fix 6 common problems directly from command line !

Oh, and they don’t require an install. So, feel free to unzip them onto a flash drive and run them on any XP machine you want.

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Microsoft Security Essentials
Thursday, October 01st, 2009 | Author:

I’ve recommended other free anti-virus programs in the past but here’s the new one from Microsoft, and it’s about time in my opinion. Like Microsoft products or not, you must admit that something that they’re the right ones to write an essential tool that needs to integrate directly into the OS. I’ve been using the beta for a while now and it’s now out in a final version for everyone. So, tired of paying for AV? Looking for something that does both AV and anti-malware? Give Microsoft Security Essentials a try.

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Clean out your registry
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | Author:

reg-resultYeah, yeah, there have been many different Windows registry cleaners out there and the big question is “how do I know that they really actually do anything?” Great question. So, why am I going to recommend RegSeeker today? Also a good question. First, I’ve run it on three different computers and it hasn’t damaged a singe one yet. (As always, if it kills your machine it’s not my fault ;-) Second, this is the first registry cleaner that I’ve ever used that actually tells you what it’s going and why. In other words, it scans, then reports what it wants to remove and tells you why those entries should be removed. Third, you can tell it to back up whatever it’s going to delete so you can always put the settings back. Lastly, there’s lots of other Windows tweaks available, making it more than just a registry cleaner. Oh, and it’s completely free! ‘Nuff said.

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BattCursor
Thursday, August 06th, 2009 | Author:

image There are a lot of battery monitors out there that improve on the one built in to Windows. Some are better than others. Some are more visually appealing. But for those that totally live and die by their laptop battery, why not have your battery meter built right in to the mouse pointer. That, along with several other features is exactly what BattCursor does for you. Now you’ll never have to look down at that little tiny battery icon ever again.

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