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« Previous EntriesUseability: Linux / Unix v Closed Software
Thursday, August 7th, 2008A tweet from Linda Eastin pointed me at this old blog entry from Daring Fireball on Linux and Spray-on Useability, that takes aim at the Eric Raymond rant on Linux usability (the one where he can’t get CUPS working).
There’s an old engineering adage: “Fast, good, cheap: pick two.” (Where
“fast” regards development time, not performance.) Desktop [...]
Portable On-Screen Keyboard
Thursday, July 31st, 2008On-Screen Keyboard Portable is a handy way to bring your settings for the Windows’ built-in On-Screen Keyboard with you from PC to PC. It will remember your hover preferences and other options and provides an easy way to launch it right from the PortableApps.com Menu. For earlier operating systems that lack a built-in on-screen keyboard [...]
Find all your drivers with Double Driver. ~ Ask The Admin
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008If you reformat / reinstall your windows operating system, one of the chores is looking for and downloading drivers….
So what if you had a copy of all your drivers on a USB stick ?
Run Double Driver and copy your drivers off your machine to a USB stick and then restore them right back into your [...]
Work with Office safe modes - Outlook - Microsoft Office Online
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008If you are having problems with a Microsoft Office program, you may be able to use User-Initiated Safe mode to make it possible to run the program. Some situations in which this can be helpful include:
You need to view a file and the Microsoft Office program that you are using is crashing before you can [...]
Remove Hidden Data tool for Office 2003 and Office XP
Monday, July 14th, 2008MS Word documents contain hidden meta data that contain information about
the author of the document. It can also contain additional information
like comments and remarks, previous authors or revisions. While that is
normally not a problem for the author because most recipients do not
care or know that those information are available it can become a
problem in some [...]
FlexTK Windows File Management
Monday, July 14th, 2008From Download Squad:If you’re like us, your hard drive is anything but tidy. That’s because
us power users can’t be bothered to keep things organized - there are
just too many awesome things out there to download, extract, and forget
about because half of them turn out to be garbage.
FlexTK for Windows
helps make short work of cleaning up [...]
Windows Inspection Tool Set
Monday, July 7th, 2008Windows Inspection Tool Set is an open source utility that provides you with a series of tools for inspecting your Windows operating system. This includes information about your processor, BIOS, or RAM usage, how many processes you’re running, or how long it’s been since your last reboot.
WiTS also includes a task manager, a security manager [...]
Monitor your hard drive usage in Windows
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 From Shell Extension City
DriveSpacio is a free Windows utility for examinging hard drive usage. When you first boot the program you’ll get a list of each hard drive and partition on your system, along with, some details like the files system, cluster size, and a pie chart or bar graph showing used and free [...]
AVG 8.0 Freeware released, with protection from spyware
Sunday, April 27th, 2008A few months ago, Grisoft updated its AVG anti-virus suite to version 8 and included linkscanning, anti-spyware, and anti-rootkit software to boot. Now the popular freeware equivalent of Grisoft’s anti-virus application is getting some of the same features.
AVG Free 8 is out, and not only does it protect your system from viruses, but you [...]
MySpace - You can checkout, but you can never leave
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Mathew Moran has problems cancelling his MySpace accounts
I’ve had two myspace profiles for awhile - one as an individual and one as a band. Recently, for various reasons, I decided to get rid of both. Getting rid of my personal was interesting because their instructions are incorrect. I would say this is an oversight but [...]