For the second installment in my mini series on Productivity and those tools that I use to increase mine, I am going to talk about the merits of a simple launcher program - SlickRun. You can find it at http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/. This free floating command utility for Windows launches programs, specific files or documents and folders [...]
Spending most of my days in front of computer screens I have manged to compile a list of tools (some of which I may have mentioned previously) that assist in my productivity. Many of these may only shave seconds off a task but if I was to add up all those seconds I believe I [...]
I have just installed the Wordpress plugin from the guys at Re-Captcha as part of my ongoing attempt at blocking spam. For those of you who do not know a CAPTCHA (or Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) are the little images you see on the end of forms with blurred [...]
Just a quick post to share a little Windows app named SlickRun. This saves the right hand moving away from the keyboard. Enter a "Magic Word" into the little box and run the command associated with it. I open it by select "Windows + Q" and then hit the first letter of the program I [...]
This week sees the sale of the Apple IPod reach over 100,000,000. Yes that is 100 million. To be honest my IPod is not a statement or fashion accessory, it is a tool I use day in day out. It helps me relax and concentrate at the same time. Well, the music does that but [...]
I have spent the last couple of days rebuilding my machine. Reports of internal organ failure were slightly premature, it was more like a life threatening internal bleed than complete internal organ failure! My rebuild consisted of 3 components:
Format the HDD.
Clean reinstall of Windows.
RE-install all my applications and data.
Luckily I have my Netgear Storage Central [...]
So this was the submitted project for the Multimedia module of my Computer Science course. The task was to cram in as much "Multimedia" into something different. It was a bit of fun in what if I remember correctly was 3rd year! It is now a legend in the CS department at Heriot-Watt.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7859165005347940422
Virgin Media and Sky have had a bit of a spat recently. Virgin have chosen to drop Sky's basic and free digital channels (including Sky One!) because of the price Sky want to charge them. Virgin Media are the amalgamation of NTL and Telewest cable services and Virgin Mobile. As an Edinburgh resident, in a [...]
This is a question facing the many, many of us over the coming days, weeks and months. Vista the all new operating system from Microsoft. Now, normally with any Microsoft product (particularly the OS!) I would wait until at least the first service pack bu there is something about Vista that has me thinking! There [...]
I have finally taken the plunge and downloaded IE7 on my home machine. Working on a site, with IE6 up until the last release has meant that I have not had the time to do this sort of stuff and missed the beta completely.
I hate the new user interface. My first reaction to it was [...]