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Gmail Alerts Done Right

Dec/09 in Desktop Apps

Scott's Gmail AlertScott’s Gmail Alert might be one of the nicest little Gmail monitor programs you can find on Windows.  With it, you can always stay on top of your most recent Gmail emails that have come in, and get access to tons of other great features. 

The main job of this excellent little program is to monitor any number of Gmail inboxes and labels.  You can customize each account with individual colors and sounds too.  You can also instantly rely to emails, without even having to open your web browser.  It is also fully compatible with Google Apps and the standard free Gmail e-mail accounts too.

The features do not stop there.  You can also use it to monitor multiple Google Talk accounts, receive desktop alerts for calendar events, get the latest Google news feeds or stay up to date with the current weather conditions.  Any RSS feed can also be directly plugged into Scott’s Gmail Alert, for easy access to your favorite website stories.

Your registration (which is only $3) will unlock support for monitoring an unlimited number of Gmail accounts, the Calendar functions and RSS feed monitoring.

Go give it a shot – I can promise you that you will not find another Gmail monitoring program that does so much.

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Samsung Touch Of Color 25.5-Inch LCD HDTV Monitor Unboxing

Feb/08 in Hot Web Topics, Personal

Samsung Touch Of Color 25.5-Inch LCD HDTV Monitor

I recently retired my old Samsung monitor, and brought in a replacement.  While I work on getting a more official review in order for my new Samsung Touch Of Color 25.5-Inch LCD HDTV Monitor I thought I could at least share my unboxing photos with all of you.  Thus far I have been really impressed with it – and I’ll be sure to post more of my thoughts very soon.

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More Metroid Wallpaper

Mar/12 in Desktop, Free Wallpaper

In my top ten video games of all time, the Metroid series would have to be somewhere in the top five at least.  Due to the popularity of my first Metroid-themed wallpaper find, I thought I would search the Internet for more Samus Aran goodness.  Enjoy!

Metroid_Wallpaper_by_Kirra241 Metroid_by_Typhoon89 Metroid_Prime_by_venomdesigns Blue_Flames_Metroid_Wallpaper_by_kironohasama

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Split Your Desktop into Virtual Work Areas

Mar/06 in Desktop Apps

maxto-screenshot Short of taking a chainsaw to your monitor, all Evil Dead like, there aren’t a lot of good ways to split it up into multiple regions to make working an organized experience.  Thanks to Ryan over at Cybernetnews.com I can put my chainsaw away, and get to using MaxTo.  MaxTo will help you split your current monitor into virtual regions, that can serve as a constraint when maximizing windows.

Once you install it, the setup is pretty easy to understand.  You just setup how you want you desktop to be split, hit the OK button and it is done.  If you find yourself overwhelmed by having too many programs or windows floating around your desktop – give MaxTo a shot.  Previously I had been doing this same type of desktop reorganization on my own, but MaxTo does it for me – and in turn saves me a lot of tweaking time.

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Reliable Web Site Monitoring with Site24x7.com

Aug/26 in Web Development Tutorials, Web Hosting

logo With both paid and free versions, Site24x7.com looks to be a great web site monitoring package.  They do monitoring of uptime and performance of your web sites, online services and servers.  They also promise to deliver instant alerts the moment something goes wrong.

You can set the monitoring tools to check the web site in question you wish to monitor in intervals ranging from 5 to 60 minutes or above.

If the worst might happen, and you need to be told, here are the various ways they can alert you to trouble:

  • E-mail
  • RSS
  • SMS Messages

For those of you just wanting to beta test the service; when you first sign up, you are given a fully functional, 15-day trial account. At the end of 15 days, your account will be downgraded to free unless you upgrade to either Standard or Premium account.

Check out the screenshots, then give them a shot at Site24x7.com.

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Samsung 226BW 22-Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor

Oct/24 in Personal

Samsung SyncMaster 226BWSo far I have been so happy with my new Samsung 226BW 22-Inch Digital/Analog Widescreen LCD Monitor. Look at it – it is just so darn pretty I could cry!

I had to get rid of my old monitor – not because it wore out but because I needed a bigger work space on my desktop and the back stand for the old one just didn’t work the way it should anymore. It is kind of hard to put into words – but I had to stick a hacky sack behind the monitor so that the monitor’s face wouldn’t tilt down so low I had to sit on the floor to use it and type.

I had heard a few bad reviews about this same model after I bought it so I am happy to hear I apparently got one of the good ones. Best thing about the deal was at Amazon – the price after rebate was only $254.97. Now that is a bargain! With this being my second Samsung, I have to say they have done well by my standards yet again.

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