Christopher Craig

Entries Tagged ‘Windows’

Home Theatre PC Recommendations

I’m finally joining the ranks of HDTV owners next week, and that presents me with a decision to make. Currently, I have a standard definition TV with an XBox running XBMC.
This setup works great for me now, but the problem is that the XBox doesn’t do anything but standard def. That puts me [...]

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Links for the Week Ending April 13, 2008

LinuxQuestions.org - where Linux users come for help

GRC | Hard drive data recovery software

Funes - Rate songs from the menu bar

Remember everything. | Evernote Corporation

Gravatar - Globally Recognized Avatars

Google App Engine - Google Code

.htaccess Editor

Tweak Now! - Tweaking Windows Couldn’t Be Easier

CutePDF - Create PDF for free, Free PDF Utilities, Edit PDF easily;.

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Links for the Week Ending April 06, 2008

Kid-Proof Your Home Theater - Wired How-To Wiki

Woopra - web-tracking & analysis tool

Firefox 3 Beta: Make Your Extensions Work with the Firefox 3 Beta

Canada Email Weather Warning System

Lifehacker - Trim Down Windows to the Bare Essentials

GetHuman.com
Avoid annoying automated menus. Get a real person on the phone

Twitter for Wordpress

WordPress › WordPress Plugins

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Links for the Week Ending March 23, 2008

Skitch.com
Snap, Draw, Share!

10 AJAX Effects to Boost Your Website’s Fanciness Factor

Royale Noir: secret XP theme uncovered (download) - istartedsomething

Systm — Revision3

popSiren — Revision3

Tekzilla — Revision3

Mahalo Daily

Mahalo.com: Human-powered Search

How to Cook a Ham - Mahalo

Realtime Soft UltraMon
Software for multiple monitors

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Links for the Week Ending March 02, 2008

Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool

Looking at PHP5’s DateTime and DateTimeZone

Create Your Own Cross-Platform Backup Server

FriendFeed
Aggregate the RSS feeds from all of your sites for others to see.

undocumenting php: it’s about time
Missing documentation for PHP’s new DateTime object. Finally support for dates after 2038.

Regular Expression Test Tool

REGex TESTER v1.5.3 - test/validate regular expressions, online tester

PHP [...]

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Synergy Software KVM

I’ve been using Synergy at work for a few months now. I have two computers and limited desk space, so having 2 keyboards, and two mice was too much clutter for me. Synergy was the perfect solution.
It’s a software KVM, so you still need the second display, but I actually prefer it that [...]

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Apple Blames the Vicitim

This is awesome! According to an Apple Support page, a small number of 5th Gen iPods have shipped with the RavMonE.exe virus. The best part of the article is how Apple blames Windows for this.
As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even [...]

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Portable Apps

For a few months now, I’ve been making better use of my USB flash drive. Instead of just keeping files on it, I’ve started using portable apps from portableapps.com.
Portable apps are apps that you store and run directly from your usb drive. They don’t require any installation, and they don’t leave any trace [...]

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Energy Blue XP Theme

This has been around for quite some time now, but I though I’d shrare it anyway because I was noticing at work how dated the default XP theme is. I mean…talk about tired.
Anyway here’s the Energy Blue XP Theme. Just download and install it, then you’ll see it in the themes tab of [...]

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