Archive for January, 2009
Tetris for your phone
Instead of paying your wireless carrier way too much per month to play Tetris on your Windows Mobile, get the free Kevtris. Nothing unusual here, it has all the normal playing modes and an online high score list if you want to participate in that as well.
Search and replace across files
I still do a lot of my coding by hand, so every now and then I need to do a global search and replace across several files. Notepad++ (see this post) has this feature built in. Simply open all the files needing the search and replace in Notepad++ (drag and drop works nicely for this) [...]
AllSnap
Working with multiple monitors and can’t get your windows to line up with the edges of them very well? I use AllSnap to do this for me. It makes the edges of all windows and monitors sticky so as you drag the border of a window to resize it, when you get close to another [...]
Taskbar Shuffle
Windows won’t allow you to rearrange the buttons on your taskbar. If your dependent on having something in a particular location, probably because you’re running it all the time and it’s always on the left side… until it crashes, then Taskbar Shuffle is for you. It allows you to drag and drop buttons on your [...]
TruCrypt
You can encrypt just a few files or your entire hard drive with the open source TruCrypt. In the file mode, TruCrypt works by creating a single file that, when unlocked with your pass phrase, mounts itself as a drive on your system. Anything going into this drive is then automatically encrypted. You can then [...]
Super Bowl Final Score Distribution
Here’s how the last digit of the final score of all 42 super bowls breaks down. Great for figuring out just how likely you are to win that squares pool at the office. Duplicate scores have been omitted, i.e. 4-2 and 2-4 do not appear on this list since statistically they’re the same thing.
FinalScore
Percent
Occurances
0-0
0-1
2%
1
0-2
2%
1
0-3
2%
1
0-4
0-5
5%
2
0-6
5%
2
0-7
7%
3
0-8
0-9
5%
2
1-1
1-2
1-3
1-4
5%
2
1-5
5%
2
1-6
2%
1
1-7
2%
1
1-8
2%
1
1-9
2%
1
2-2
2-3
2-4
2%
1
2-5
2-6
2-7
2%
1
2-8
2-9
2%
1
3-3
3-4
5%
2
3-5
3-6
5%
2
3-7
2%
1
3-8
3-9
4-4
4-5
4-6
4-7
12%
5
4-8
4-9
2%
1
5-5
5-6
5-7
5-8
5-9
6-6
2%
1
6-7
2%
1
6-8
2%
1
6-9
2%
1
7-7
5%
2
7-8
7-9
2%
1
8-8
8-9
2%
1
9-9
Unlocker
Don’t you hate it when Windows says it can’t delete a file because it’s in use. This usually happens after an app crashes, but there are some other times I’ve seen it as well. The free utility Unlocker adds an item to your right-click menu to Unlock the file, or a group of files if [...]
TwitterFox
I’m using TwitterFox within Firefox to keep track of everything on Twitter. The add-on sits in the status bar and pops up a window similar to the update available window with any new tweets. The timeline is nicely color coded so you can quickly tell apart you normal messages, @ replies and direct messages. It [...]
Skype
Skype is a communications application. You can do instant messaging, video conferencing and voice chat with it all for free. In addition you can use their Skype In and Skype Out services to make calls to and from land line phones to your computer. The rates are quite competitive too, especially internationally. I’ve used [...]
Google Traffic
Google Traffic isn’t the official name for it, but I think it should be. Head over to Google Maps find a major city and then click the traffic button in the upper right corner. All of the major routes through the city will be color coded according to how quickly traffic is moving. You also [...]
Filezilla
Filezilla is a powerful open source FTP client. It has plenty of built in features to appease any power user, but a simple file transfer is still very straight-forward. I’m particular fond of the nag-once-per-session options when determining which files to overwrite and how. This means when I’m updating WordPress or Gallery that I can [...]
Sudoku Mobile
Instead of paying for one of the many Sudoku mobile apps offered by my wireless carrier, I downloaded Sudoku Mobile. The game also includes a solver, so you can, uh, check your answers to the one in a newspaper without having to wait until the next day.
The Core Pocket Media Player
The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) is a replacement for Windows Media Player for your phone. It’s much less bulky than Windows Media player and has a lot more options for controlling how your media is played back. Make sure to download and install all of the plugins for it so it can play nearly [...]
Slick
Slick is a Windows Mobile instant messaging client that supports ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, MSN, Google Talk, and Jabber. It’s very light weight so it tends to stay open in the background without being shutdown by the OS often.
Google Maps Mobile
Google’s popular Maps service is also available for your phone. Point your phone’s browser at http://m.google.com/maps and you’ll get the download that’s right for your phone. The app is GPS enabled so you can search nearby, or use it for turn-by-turn directions. They’ve also integrated satellite view, street view and traffic. I’ve noticed that the [...]
Notepad++
Notepad++ is a replacement for Windows’ built in notepad. It supports multiple tabs and syntax highlighting for nearly any language. When it installs, it also adds an entry to the right-click menu for any file that reads “Send to Notepad++.” This is very useful for those of us who do a lot of programming and [...]
PDF Creator
Make your own PDFs with PDF Creator. Like the full blown Adobe Acrobat, what you’d typically need to use to create PDFs, PDF Creator installs itself as a printer, so it works with any application. When you want to create a PDF simply press print, and then choose PDF creator as your printer. Once you [...]
7-Zip
7-Zip is an open source file compression utility. It handles ZIP, GZIP, TAR, ARJ, CAB, ISO, LZH, MSI, and RAR among many others. Stop Win-Zip from nagging you to buy it now and get 7-Zip.
ForecastFox
ForecastFox puts a highly customizable forecast inside Firefox. You can include up to a 5 day forecast with temperature, precipitation type, wind speed and other information as well as the current conditions including heat index or wind chill and the current radar image for your location. ForecastFox will also pop up severe weather alerts, such [...]
GMail Notifier for Google Apps
If you’re using Google Apps for Domains then you’ve probably noticed that the GMail Notifier doesn’t work with it. The nearly identical replacement that does work with apps is GMail Notifier for Google Apps.
