Posts in the category “technology”
Two Tricks
Two great tips from annoyances.org: Restart Windows without Restarting your Computer Speed up system restart
RAM
My computer has been misbehaving lately. It seems to be crashing constantly and the performance has been muddy. A few days ago I downloaded Cool Beans System Info, a nice little app that displays free RAM and processor usage. I realized that even though I have 256 MB of RAM, it seems like it’s all
Journaling
The journaling script is a cms you can use to keep a blog. It is one of the original blogging systems and is still popular. It’s not as easy to use as Blogger, of course, but it’s worth a look if you know a little about the guts of the ‘net and are thinking about
eMail Messaging
Update 2016-03-18 — Boy, was I wrong about this one. In my defense, though, it was pretty awful to read email on your phone in the year 2001. “It’s the interface, stupid!” I got in a discussion recently about text messaging on mobile phones. I don’t understand why so much money is being pumped into
Coffee Shop Photo
In which I discover digital photography
AutoText 2
Well I already made a bunch of changes to AutoText. Thank you so much, Leia, for beta-testing! Now there are four text boxes. AutoText will post the text in the selected text box to the open app. That way you can save several juicy bits of text for auto-posting. Please note that if you’re using
AutoText
I’m always writing little programs to make my life easier. One of the handiest I’ve created is called AutoText. This small (only 32K!) app sits in your system tray and, when you double-click it, sends a text string to whichever application has the focus. There’s no documentation or help; it’s pretty simple. Right-click the icon
Software by Design
Software Design has been on the ‘net for several years. Gregory Braun has written many great little apps for Windows and I highly recommend them. They’re all try-before-you-buy but are full-featured, too. FontShow is great and I have the Time Synchronization program set to run daily.
Windows Registry
The Windows Registry Guide is full of registry tweaks, tricks, and hacks to optimize, enhance, and secure Microsoft Windows. This is really a wonderful site. There are dozens of mini-tutorials to make Windows do all sorts of nifty things. I really like this place.
Systray
Nobody asked me to play (boo hoo) … but I thought I’d jump in on this meme anyway. The contents of my system tray are (left to right): Windows Task Scheduler Volume control InoculateIT – virus protection quicklink to desktop Adaptec DirectCD Diamond InControl Tools AutoText – a little app I wrote that inserts text