Make Your Own Sticky Notes with Notepad (Windows)

Related Someone had once remarked that simplicity is making the journey of life with just baggage enough. Sometimes, I take a stab at apply the same axiom to my " soft aware' life too. And that involves squeezing the maximum juice out of what’s available in my computer. Life with Notepad couldn’t be any simpler. It strips all formatting and keeps data in its plain format. We all use Notepad to store our scraps of data as text files....

November 24, 2008 · 2 min · 230 words · Patricia Williams

Batch Edit Your Images with GIMP

As a result, I go through a lot of repetitive actions withGIMP, the free image editing program. This add-on is definitely worth the inconvenience and you’ll probably use it for some time to come. In this example I will be talking about creating multiple sizes of multiple images and renaming them for categorization. There are many other things you’re free to do with batch editing though. Head on over tothe home page for David’s Batch Processor (DBP)....

November 20, 2008 · 2 min · 216 words · Matthew Martinez

How to Turn an Old Router Into a Wireless Bridge

you could turn an old router into a wireless bridge and solve your problem. What Is a Wireless Bridge? Turn Your Old Router Into a Wireless Bridge Using OpenWrt Wireless bridge devices can be pretty expensive. Casezy idea/Shutterstock Download OpenWrt Firmware Take note that routers often have different versions using slightly different hardware. check that to download the proper firmware of your router and its specific version. Install OpenWrt on Your Router OpenWrt supports thousands of devices from different manufacturers....

November 13, 2008 · 1 min · 129 words · Kathy Smith

10 Uses of Google Alerts For A Freelancer

Related For most of us web workers Google is almost a simile for a spade. I would be treading on much furrowed ground if I were to hail the power of Google search. Optimally tuned with the correct search string, Google Alerts becomes a speeding bullet for targeting precise data. of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. It simply allows us to automate our search, setting it just once instead of doing it every day....

November 10, 2008 · 3 min · 513 words · Carl Martinez

10 Cool Linux Apps You Maybe Didn't Know About

Are you ready to discover some pretty cool Linux apps that don’t get the attention they deserve? Let’s check them out. Midori is currently packaged into Xubuntu and features include tabs, bookmarks and customizable search engine box. The internet tool is extensible via Javascript. AcidRip AcidRip is a GTK program for ripping and encoding DVD’s. Cheese Webcam Booth Cheese is a Photobooth-inspired GNOME app for taking pictures and videos from a webcam....

November 6, 2008 · 1 min · 170 words · Laura Miller

OpenDNS Works As A Great Free Web Content Filtering Solution

Related I needed a quick easy solution for a small web connection I was managing. The owner was concerned about some of the employees browsing habits. He said there were issues with online gambling and pornography! People doing bad things on the internet….that almost never happens….right? But for small networks (or anyone looking to save money!) this will work great. Let me give you some quick background on how DNS works....

October 29, 2008 · 2 min · 337 words · John Carpenter

ZIM/ Note Taking App [Linux, Windows]

Wikis are great for collaboration and note taking. ZIMis one such package that helps you create a wiki on your desktop. Or in other words you’re free to use it as an excellent note taking software. ZIM is a WYSIWYG text editor which aims to bring the concept of a wiki to your desktop. So why would you need a wiki on your desktop? The notes are stored as text files with wiki markup....

October 25, 2008 · 1 min · 161 words · Sandra Gray

How to Setup Easy Remote Support on the Mac

Most of the time, it just ends in disaster. There’s a learning curve, albeit not a very steep one, especially for Macs. The tricky part is playing friendly with Windows machines. How many of you “family technicians” understand what I’m talking about? I found the solution to beSchnitz Remote Lite. I know many of you must be thinking aboutTeamViewer. it’s possible for you to’t even begin to imagine how many complications this sidesteps....

October 22, 2008 · 1 min · 141 words · David Butler

Open Two Different Instances Of Outlook With ExtraOutlook

I guess that means I am not normal! When you venture to open a second instance of Outlook it would just open it within the current context. In plain English it would open a duplicate inbox to the one I already had open. It was doing nothing for me when I need to multi-task. Check out the downloadhereand you’ve got the option to Visit the HOG websitehere. I mean this couldn’t have been easier!...

October 8, 2008 · 1 min · 162 words · Peter Hays

Livestation Desktop TV

So I figured it deserved a follow-up article to show you what the Livestation team has been doing. This is a huge plus to me.you could configure the desktop app to send messages to your Twitter account. So if you’re watching something really interesting, you’ve got the option to Tweet about it! But it is the huge number of TV channels that really makes it stand out. So you might custom-make your own television channels!...

October 4, 2008 · 1 min · 126 words · Karla Soto

Check if Your Gmail Account is Hacked with Activity Monitor

Related Back in February Mark wrote an article, Are You Sure Your Email Isnt Being Hacked. It provided step by step instructions on how to setup “electronic tripwire” in your email. When someone opens it the account owner gets alerted. This time I want to go over one new Gmail feature. It watches your account and displays a notification when someone else logs into your account. When you’re in Gmail go all the way down to the bottom of the page....

October 1, 2008 · 1 min · 198 words · Amy Wallace

Locate32

It uses databases to store information about directory structures and then utilizes them when you search for something. Locate32is portable - youjust extract the package(zip or exe) and you are ready to go. This may take a few minutes depending on your storage capacity. Once the database is ready you could jot down in your queries and get instant results. The bang out of file i.e. Personally the results are so quick that I seldom specify any options....

September 23, 2008 · 1 min · 147 words · Yolanda Harris

Customize Your "Send To" Right-Click Windows Menu

The secret lies in the “Send To” command found in your right-click contextual menu. At this point you’re probably either thinking, “what command where?” or “that has a function?” Hopefully we’ll answer both of those in that order for you. First, right-select any file or folder. The one we’re interested in is “Send To.” Most of the locations on the list, by default, are fairly useless. What you see above is my newly cleaned-up and customized ‘Send To’ menu....

September 12, 2008 · 2 min · 247 words · Vanessa Moore