Sofware
Software Review: VisualCron – an advanced Task Scheduler/automation tool for Windows
I have recently been contacted by Henrik Erlandsson (founder of VisualCron) asking me if I would take a closer look at his program and report back with my thoughts. I thought why not, I always like taking a look a new software. Here is my review of VisualCron 5. VisualCron is described as the following [...]
Re-Arrange Your Taskbar Items with Taskbar Shuffle
I’ve never been one to worry about where my items are located on the taskbar and my philosophy has always been: “If there are too many times on your taskbar and you can’t find stuff you should probably close some applications.” But, since I’ve started working at my new job I’ve realized how this is [...]
JKDefrag – Another Open Source Defrag Alternative
A little over a year ago I wrote an article on a defragmentation utility called UltraDefrag. At that time it was in version 1.3.x and worked quite well. I wasn’t overly fond of JKDefrag at that time but since then I have been using JK off and on and it started to grow on me. [...]
Captain Crunch Talks Software Piracy
I was browsing around on YouTube today and found the following video. It’s a clip of an episode of the Computer Chronicles series. This particular episode aired in 1985 and features the great Captain Crunch (aka John Draper) talking about software piracy. I found it funny how the same problem is still affecting the software [...]
Rocket Dock Rocks!
In my trek for a MAC OS X style dock for my Ubuntu PC, the other day, I happened upon a neat little app called Rocket Dock. This app is actually for Windows but I decided to try it out anyway (I’ve yet to find one for Ubuntu that I like). I was pleasantly surprised. [...]
FileZilla – An Open Source FTP Client
For those of you who have websites, you know that one of the most important tools you must have is your FTP client. This is the main way to get your files up to your site and when you make changes you use the FTP client to upload those too. In this day and age [...]
Top 5 Firefox Add-ons
Tom Merrit of cnet tv counts down the top 5 Firefox add-ons. Enjoy!
WordPress software has been updated
I’ve finally gotten around to upgrading from WordPress 2.3.3 to WordPress 2.6. The upgrade went surprisingly well with only two plugins that did not work properly. The best part of the whole process was the automatic upgrading of the installed plugins. This made it very easy to get the newest versions of most of my [...]
Review: Lotus Symphony 1.0
For those of you who do not know, Lotus Symphony is a new, freely available, office suite from IBM. It is based on the OpenOffice.org project but has been re-branded to lotus and has been extended and modified. You can get it at symphony.lotus.com. My test machine is Windows Vista running in a virtual machine [...]
Secunia PSI – A way to scan for vulnerable and end of live software
Secunia PSI (Personal Software Inspector) is a neat little application that scans your PC and informs you about outdated (only if it contains vulnerabilities), end-of-life and vulnerable software. Basically what it does is scans your PC (sort of like a virus scanner) and then creates a report of the software that needs attention. When I [...]
