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This is an actual ad that I received this morning in my periodical “deals” email from Meritline.com. I order from them a lot. They’re pretty good. But this ad made me chuckle. Someone in Meritline’s marketing department needs to be taken into an office, laughed at loudly, and fired. At least the kid’s index finger will remain undamaged..
Dhryland is now running Wordpress v2.8. Found this amusing recently.
This concept sucks so badly that I’m not even going to post a link to their site. If you want to find out more, the homepage URL isn’t too hard to guess.
Today I upgraded (finally!) from IE6 to IE8 and boy, is it fast. Coupled with MyIE9 (which itself loads in about a second), I’m back to enjoying the web without having to wait five or ten seconds for Firefox 3 to load. I already set it up as my default browser (clicking links from my email now give me immediate HTML joy). As they say on Yo Gabba Gabba: “Try it, you’ll like it! Try it, you’ll like it! Try it, you’ll like it! Try it, you’ll like it! Try it, you’ll like it! Try it, you’ll like it! Try it, you’ll like it! Try it..” etc.
And without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I present for your reading pleasure: Darktrooper! (George, this one’s for you) IMHO, all of the Apple production – for teenagers. Or for peoples, who cannot use their brain and hand. The shells, like Apple’s and Touch Flo – WM have long ago. Not so stylish and shiny, but very useful. Apps, like SPB mobile shell, Pocket CM, Easy PDA, VITO quick contacts, Photo Contacts Pro, WiS Bar desktop, and many more. And now MW has many clones of iPhone shell. This is the freedom of choice. Apple give you only one way to think, WM – hundreds. But you need the brains, to tweak and build this pocket PC for yourself. But, if you can choose from thousand of applications what you need – you’ll get possibilities, way beyond the Apple’s “think different, or better not think – buy”. What I get, what Apple’s iPhone NEVER can give me? I simply don’t say about what my WM phone can do on the job. Synchronizing with Exchange and Shrepoint, office mobile, corporate mail and tasks, – this where iPhone suck, and will suck forever. Ok, now I exit the building, and want to get a break, drink coffee and listen music. I don’t want to get any calls. My phone lies in my pocket, on my ears – cool Jabra’s stereo headset. I simply SAY to my phone – “Flight mode on”, and then “Play album XXX”. I don’t need to open my pocket, get the iPhone, and then use my dirty fingers to scroll stupid covers. I just say to my phone – what I want. When the coffee brake is over – I just say “Stop”, “Flight mode off”, and I’m online again. Ok, work is over, I came to my car, put phone in to cradle, and start TomTom or iGo. I can receive a calls when I driving on my headset. When I need a call to someone – I just say: “Call Sandy on mobile”. What next? Video? Clever people use Coreplayer, which play everything. Especially, if you convert big movie into pocket format, from your PC. Music? Don’t like media player and voice control? How about interface like tricoder in StarTrack? Or iPod? Games? Well, here WM unbeatable. Only serious consoles, like PSP can beat it. Do you like good old DOS quests, like Broken Sword or Monkey Island? How about UFO, Age of Empires, Heroes? All games from Game Boy Advanced? ZX Spectrum or Dandy? What next? Internet? Skype, ICQ, MSN, IRC? Dont like IE? Here Opera for you, witch more advanced and better then Safari. RSS? News? SPB insite – and you automaticaly get all your news, and articles. With photos and links, but without banners. O, you get link on new book in e-library? Get it in fb2, and read with AllReader2 – iPhone suck again! I dont understand – who need such primitive device, like iPhone?
Features include: Get it from http://free.agnitum.com/ or http://www.firewallforfree.com. STOP PRESS! (yeah, four days after it’s already been to press. sigh.) Anyway, I have a rule for myself where I won’t erase previous posts, but I need to modify this one as follows. Stupidly I went ga-ga about the software before I discovered the limitations of the free version. You can’t click on any connections and do anything with them, like terminate them etc. The per-connection context menu is completely disabled in the free version, essentially making the firewall read-only! This is pathetic and makes it next to useless as far as I’m concerned, like a viruskiller that doesn’t clean virii. I hereby retract what I said about this tool and advise my readers to go back to Comodo until I find something better. I still stand by what I say re the full version of Outpost though. Just not this version.
Other features include a “manage stickies” mode – you can see all the stickies you’ve closed, search for text in a sticky, and store stickies permanently in one or more categories; you can “attach” a sticky to a window on your screen so that whenever that window opens the sticky will open as well (I have this at work so that whenever I open my electronic timecard a sticky containing a list of the timecard categories appears so I can remember which category to use for any given project); you can set an alarm on a sticky and then send it to sleep, so that when the time/date rolls round the sticky will appear and then madly jiggle about on the screen to attract your attention (I use this a LOT) and even more features that I haven’t even used yet. Summing up, this is an absolutely indispensable tool that nobody should be without. Very small system resource footprint. Best of all, it’s completely free. Honourable mention: TurboNote – another great utility in the same vein, but slightly more bloated and not free. Just plain cool. Click PLAY.
NotePad++ receives a Hot Download Award as one of the best text editors I’ve used recently. Previously, my favourite was NotePad2. Notepad2 is extremely small (loads in a flash) and has some very nice options if you’re just interested in editing non-rich-text files – readmes and the like. NotePad++, on the other hand, adds a huge range of features including syntax highlighting, tabbed document interface, macros, and plugins which allow a vast amount of text transformations and other functions. This editor does almost everything you could possibly want for straightforward programming or related work. Honourable mentions: NotePad2, of course. PSPad is another free editor with a giant range of features, but takes a second or two longer to load. In my world that counts as second best. Finally, for the absolute ULTIMATE text editor (shareware but worth it if you have the $) is UltraEdit. This latter editor really does do everything under the sun. Avoid: TextPad. So many people use this tool, it boggles my mind. It’s shareware and far below par when compared to NotePad++. The default hotkey mappings don’t make any sense either. Don’t even bother. |
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Every so often an idea surfaces which is so unparalleled in it’s stupidity that it boggles one’s mind almost into gibbering insanity. Whisher is one of those ideas. The premise is that you’re supposed to hook their software up into your home wifi connection. You then can become part of a network of free wifi spots aiding passers-by with their idle twittering or instant messaging. At this point, let me pause for effect. Okay, continuing on now. What this truly means is that, while you’re still responsible to your ISP for all breaches of law committed through your paid-for internet access, you are still giving carte blanche for Whisher users to use your net connection to commit acts of terrorism, treason, piracy, the list goes on. Are you KIDDING me? If ever a program deserved a Dhryland Hot Brownload Award, this is it. It’s almost as bad as 
Stickies has to be one of my most-used applications over the last year or so. I have it installed at work and my wife and I have it at home too. Essentially it works like an electronic post-it note pad. You can click on the systray icon and pop a blank “note” window on your screen. At this stage you can enter any text you like – hyperlinks are automatically recognised and the note also supports rich text and even working “checkboxes” so you can make a mini to-do list (I suggested this feature 
. The underlying functionality is fantastic, too. It is network-aware, to the extent that I can write a note at work and then send it to pop up on the screen of my PC at home. The wife and I use it to “chat” with each other, usually to send links or “dinner’s ready” alerts, as her PC is downstairs and mine is upstairs. Stickies is visually customizable too – the colour of notes can be changed and you can also use “skins” – many 
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