Posts Tagged With: programs
· March 24, 2008 at 6:14 am · Desktop
Tags: apps, backup, free, logon, programs, Vista, Windows
I have been using Windows Vista for some time, and sure - it does have a few quirks that make me want to beat myself over the head with my keyboard. Overall though, 85% of the time, I have to say I am pretty happy with it. I am at least as happy as I was with Windows XP. Here are three of the best programs I have found that have just added a little more icing to the Vista cake.
Shadow Explorer
This program makes it a quick and easy job to browse through the shadow copies of your files created by the Windows Vista volume shadow copy service. Without, it is kind of hard to hunt down an exact file backup, but with it - it gives you a familiar interface to find all your backed up files. I would still recommend backing up using other means, but this is just one more nice Vista addition to have handy.
Logon Studio Vista
Tired of how your default Windows Vista logon screen looks? This free download will allow you to change that background picture you see on the logon screen to whatever you desire. They also have several you can download and use too. Sure, this is just an eye candy improvement, but we all like for things to look nice, right?
Lifextender
This tool, used with Vista Media Center, is an application designed to remove any and all commercials from the video that you record. I have used it a number of times for the various cable shows I watch and it has yet to let me down. Might just set it up to work overnight, so it doesn’t get in the way of your day to day work.
For some more applications to make the Vista experience better, check out Ave’s Vista Stuff. There are a handful of neat little application there that will add a few more perks to your shinny new OS.
· March 19, 2008 at 7:29 am · Desktop, Online Tools
Tags: apps, Desktop, Mozilla, prisim, programs, updates, web
Prism, Mozilla’s answer for bringing the web in as desktop applications, continues to amaze me. I just downloaded the newest release, and it has a few new features worth checking out. They have an extension for one, that works with Firefox 3 so that you can quickly split out web applications from Firefox without the need to manage a separate Prism application. You can convert to a Prism powered application right there in Firefox.
You can also pick an icon to represent the web site or Prism application you are setting it up as. By default it searches for the favicon, but you can edit it to go to any image. That image will become the desktop icon for it. The Fluid Flickr group had a lot of nice icon examples you could use too. (thanks to TwisterMc for that jewel)
To help with performance, each Prism app also runs in it’s own profile:
Prism now places each web app into its own process/profile so they don’t interfere with each other, which also makes it possible to install a web app twice and use it simultaneously with two different user accounts.
Personally Prism really excites me a lot and if this is still the beta form of the project, I can’t imagine the goodies waiting for me in the final release.
· September 10, 2007 at 6:25 am · Hot Web Topics
Tags: apps, beginners, packages, programs, start, Ubuntu, Windows
To continue from where I left off previously, my installation of Ubuntu’s Feisty Fawn (7.04) has been full of nothing but pleasant surprises. It just works! Right out of the box, if you will. So far, the experience has been smooth. Now, like most of you out there, I was hyped to see what all I had to use that was comparable to Windows. Granted, not all applications/software/games will work on Ubuntu….yet.
But thanks to some clever people over at the Wine project, that is soon to be a thing of the past.
Applications Galore! OK, let’s see what we have here:
Word Processing
- Windows: Word
- Ubuntu: OpenOffice.org’s Writer
Spreadsheet
- Windows: Excel
- Ubuntu: OpenOffice.org’s CalcPresentation
Presentations
- Windows: Powerpoint
- Ubuntu: OpenOffice.org’s Impress
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· November 9, 2006 at 8:35 am · Web Hosting
Tags: affiliate, deals, make-money, programs, Web-host
Signing up for an affiliate program with your current Web host (if they offer one) is a really easy way to make a little cash and support the Web host you like. I have always been a big fan of “word of mouth” advertising, and affiliate programs make sure you get something back in return.
For Web hosts out there you might have to pay a little here and there - but in the long run you are brining in more customers with little or no cost to you. Taking what you have made and investing in a program like this could mean more clients in the future, which means even more money to give back to your biggest affiliate partners.
For Web hosting clients this is a nice way to earn a few bucks on the side. Just about every major Web host out there today has an affiliate hosting program, so finding one shouldn’t be apart of the problem. You might not be rolling in the cash by doing this - but it is a nice way to make a little extra money on the side.
· September 6, 2006 at 5:00 am · Personal
Tags: applications, Firefox, NoteTab, programs, two
Almost ninety percent of the time, I am only using two applications on my computer. Sure, I have a lot of other things installed, but I really don’t use them that often. So which two are the lucky applications that I use?
Firefox covers my Web browsing and feed reading. NoteTab Pro covers all of my writing. The truth is, no matter how much I really don’t like all the Web 2.0 hype, I am doing a lot more things Online.
