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Sunday, August 24, 2008 #

Development

Business

Kids

Software

  • ScreenSteps - "The Documentation Tool For People Who Don't Want to Do Documentation"
  • Desktops - New util from Sysinternals - "Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops"
  • Elisa - Open source media server for Ubuntu.

Utility

  • PureText - Paste as clean text with Windows + V. Smallware alert. 13k!

Software Updates

Sunday, August 24, 2008 11:15 PM, 0 comment(s)

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 #

Development

Photography

Software

Software Updates

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Monday, August 11, 2008 #

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      Wednesday, August 06, 2008 #

      Development

      Fun

      Gadgets

      • Popcorn Hour - Almost too-good-to-be-true media player for living room for measly 179 USD. Hum...

      Phtography

      Software Updates

      Jobs

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      Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:28 PM, 0 comment(s)

      Monday, July 28, 2008 #

      Development

      Games

      Internet

      Photography

      Productivity

      • Layered Desktop - Notepad like desktop image. My roommate from college days had something like this way back in 1996. BK, 'you here?

      Software

      • ToDo - Embed the content of todo.txt on your desktop. With C# and VB.NET source code.
      • Adeona”A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops”
      • celtx - Open source screen-writing software.

      System

      • Building Your Own Home Theater PC - I'm again thinking about building a silent PC for living room. This would speed up access to media files in our living room, and with small kids minutes matter!

      Software Updates

      Jobs

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      Monday, July 28, 2008 7:46 AM, 3 comment(s)

      Wednesday, July 23, 2008 #

      Thanks to Mark Gibbs I was able to get a Dropbox private beta account.

      I have 10 invites to give out, so drop a comment, email, if you would like one.

      Update:  I gave out 17 invites. Since I can always email last invite to myself, I have basically unlimited number of them.

      Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:08 PM, 31 comment(s)

      Tuesday, July 22, 2008 #

      Today we saw a release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1.

      So, what’s new?

      • Windows Vista x64 bit client,
      • option to repair backup database,
      • backup of home server Shared Folders (I don’t need, I prefer Jungle Disk for off-site backup),
      • and, of course, fixed dreaded data corruption bug that everyone feared but no-one got bitten by,
      • plus better performance, lower power consumption and other things we can’t really see.

      If you were putting off getting WHS for your home, now is the time! It’s the best solution for home storage & backup by far. I use it for a while now and I still love it. If you can’t buy it off-shelf, head to eBay.com.

      So, what happens when you upgrade?

      • You have to install new version of connector software on all computers. Simple, fast, semi-automatic.
      • You’ll have to update remote access setting. Simply reconfigure with wizard and it’s done in a snap.
      • You’ll probably have to change users password for remote access, since now they have to be (very strong).

      All in all 10 minutes of your time.

      Download: Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

      More info: Description of the Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 update, Windows Home Server Release Documentation

      Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:15 PM, 0 comment(s)

      Sunday, July 20, 2008 #

      Development

      Gadgets

      Internet

      Utility

      • WinSplit Revolution - "WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate."

      Software Updates

      Jobs

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      Sunday, July 20, 2008 9:59 PM, 0 comment(s)

      Cloud computing is all the rage this days. But what happens when the cloud goes down? CF.

      Is seems that Amazon S3 is down. [update: down 3+ hours]

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      I’m writing an article about Picnik, but it’s behaving strange, Vimeo is missing it’s content, SmugMug is completely down…

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      Sunday, July 20, 2008 9:37 PM, 0 comment(s)

      Thursday, July 17, 2008 #

      This is a minor release that I made since users asked for it. Please read the note below before asking about why new cameras aren’t supported and why it doesn’t work on Windows Vista!

      GetCanon! is a image downloader for Canon digital cameras. It's small, quick and simple. It can download images, rotate them automatically and delete them from camera. If you hate the "designer" interface of Canon utilities and hate Windows messing with image filenames, this is the right tool for you.

      GetCanon! is freeware. It includes open-source program JpegTran from Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software.

      The program has been downloaded more than 30,000 times from my own server only and is hosted on many sites around the web. This is what user of GetCanon! think about it:

      • This application is exactly what I've been looking for.
      • I found GetCanon! as a very useful tool for my PowerShot camera.
      • Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for: something that just works! Thanks!!!
      • Wow -- this is a great utility! 
      • I like your hassle free program a lot. It's much better than the annoying canon software included with my camera.
      • Thanks very much for writing GetCanon and thanks, too, for making it freely available. I love elegant, snappy & simple programs ... just like GetCanon.
      • GetCanon is the _only_ software, including Canon's CameraWindow, that is able to transfer a ~900MB AVI File from my Cam, at all. I don't know why, all the others crashed, freezed, or produced a NULL Byte file after working for ages.

      Download: GetCanon! 1.7 Setup (1016 KB)

      This software requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. You probably have it on your computer but if you don't you can download it free from Microsoft.

      What's new since version 1.6:

      • Added Czech language.
      • Fixed some minor glitches in Dutch translations.
      • Other minor fixes.

      Acknowledgments:

      Big thanks to all of translators and testers. These include: Marko Juvančič, Gregor Šuster, Mojca Knaus, Roberto Boriotti, Tobias Sürig, Jac Willekens, Patrick Abi Salloum, Kasper Garns, Adam Nemeth, Marko Justinek and Steffen Klemichen, Josef Remes.

      Supported cameras in version 1.7:

      • PowerShot A10, PowerShot A20, PowerShot A30, PowerShot A40, PowerShot A60,
      • PowerShot A70, PowerShot A75, PowerShot A80, PowerShot A85, PowerShot A95,
      • PowerShot A100, PowerShot A200, PowerShot A300, PowerShot A310, PowerShot A400, PowerShot A510, PowerShot A520,
      • PowerShot S10, PowerShot S20, PowerShot S30, PowerShot S40, PowerShot S45, PowerShot S50, PowerShot S60, PowerShot S70,
      • PowerShot S100, IXY DIGITAL, DIGITAL IXUS,
      • PowerShot S110, IXY DIGITAL 200, DIGITAL IXUS v,
      • PowerShot S200, IXY DIGITAL 200a, DIGITAL IXUS v2,
      • PowerShot S230, IXY DIGITAL 320, DIGITAL IXUS v3,
      • PowerShot S300, IXY DIGITAL 300, DIGITAL IXUS 300,
      • PowerShot S330, IXY DIGITAL 300a, DIGITAL IXUS 330,
      • PowerShot S400, IXY DIGITAL 400, DIGITAL IXUS 400,
      • PowerShot SD100, IXY DIGITAL 30, DIGITAL IXUS II,
      • PowerShot SD10, IXY DIGITAL L, DIGITAL IXUS i,
      • PowerShot SD110, IXY DIGITAL 30a, DIGITAL IXUS IIs,
      • PowerShot S410, IXY DIGITAL 450, DIGITAL IXUS 430,
      • PowerShot S500, IXY DIGITAL 500, DIGITAL IXUS 500,
      • PowerShot SD20, IXY DIGITAL L2, DIGITAL IXUS I5,
      • PowerShot SD200, IXY DIGITAL 40, DIGITAL IXUS 30,
      • PowerShot SD300, IXY DIGITAL 50, DIGITAL IXUS 40,
      • PowerShot SD400, IXY DIGITAL 55, DIGITAL IXUS 50,
      • PowerShot SD500, IXY DIGITAL 600, DIGITAL IXUS 700
      • PowerShot G1, PowerShot G2, PowerShot G3, PowerShot G5, PowerShot G6,
      • PowerShot Pro90 IS, PowerShot S1 IS, PowerShot S2 IS, PowerShot Pro1

      PLEASE NOTE:

      Canon stopped development of their DLL library GetCanon! uses. That’s why there is no support for newer cameras Unfortunately there is nothing I can do about it. You might try your luck with Windows Live Photo Gallery image downloader. It’s great, way better that GetCanon! I use it all the time.

      It also doesn’t work on Windows Vista for the same reason. Some users reported that turning Windows XP compatibility on .exe file works.

      Note: The EOS class of digital cameras is not supported. You can use the version GetCanon 1.02 with EOS class cameras.

      Supported languages:

      • English
      • Slovenian
      • Danish
      • German
      • French
      • Hungarian
      • Italian
      • Dutch
      • Portuguese
      • Czech

      Source code:

      If you would like to get the source code for this version, you have to sign up for Canon Developer program.

      Once you have got your hands on Canon SDK, contact me and I'll send you the source.

      These are links where you can apply for Canon SDK, depending where you're from:

      Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:28 PM, 10 comment(s)

      Sunday, July 13, 2008 #

      Development

      Database

      Internet

      • eCalc - Cool online calculator.
      • FreshBooks - "Online Invoicing, Time Tracking and Expense Service"

      Sailing

      Software

      • gAttach! - "Sent to mail" handler for Gmail and Google Apps mail account.
      • Pictomio - Freeware desktop image browser with Style. Saweet!

      System

      Software Updates

      Jobs

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      Sunday, July 13, 2008 11:20 PM, 0 comment(s)

      Saturday, July 12, 2008 #

       

       

      #1 Open Command Window Here

      Sure, you had this in XP too, but only if installed Open Command Prompt Here  (a.k.a. CmdHere) power toy.

      It’s built into Windows Vista , so all you have to do is hold down SHIFT, right click on folder and select Open Command Window Here. Works on Desktop too!

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      #2 Copy Path

      Another feature that you COULD have in Windows XP if you installed extra utility like Ninotech Path Copy. In Vista you us similar trick as in #1, so you hold down SHIFT, right click file, folder or selection of files and folders and then click Copy as Path.

      This will file names and paths of al selected items on clipboard for easy pasting in documents, emails and stuff.

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      #3 Fast renaming of multiple files

      There might be some tool to get this feature in previous versions of Windows, but I don’t know any.

      If you are in the middle of file or folder rename, you can simply press TAB key to jump to next file. The long way is pressing enter, then down/up and F2 again. So two keystrokes saved!

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      Note #1: feature when pressing F2 or issuing a rename command only selects filename and not file extension is easily discovered, so that’s why it’s not #4 in this list.

      Note #2: if you do serious renaming you definitely need of of many file rename utilities to help you with your job. I totally agree that mentioned feature alone is not good enough.

      Saturday, July 12, 2008 11:25 PM, 0 comment(s)

      Sunday, July 06, 2008 #

      Development

      Design

      Fun

      • How Many of Me - How many people in US have your/my/any name? Well, there seems to be 11 David Vidmar's in US.

      Internet

      Photography

      Software Updates

      Jobs

      Sunday, July 06, 2008 11:05 PM, 0 comment(s)

      Thursday, July 03, 2008 #

      Finally, all three releases for Subversion 1.5 Microsoft Windows binaries are available.

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      CollabNet and VisualSVN were available since before, today I finally spotted Apache 2.0 or Apache 2.2 Tigris builds, so I can start upgrading servers!

      Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:28 AM, 0 comment(s)

      Sunday, June 29, 2008 #

      Development

      Freeware

      Fun

      Software

      • I8kfanGUI - Dell Inspiron/Latitude/Precision fan control utility
      • iSpring - PowerPoint to Flash converter

      System

      Webdesign

      Software Updates

      Jobs

      Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:36 PM, 0 comment(s)