Entries Tagged 'Software' ↓

Many years ago, I used UNIX systems. While not particularly user-friendly at the time, there are some UNIX utilities that I have wished for. One of them was Cron.
Cron is a scheduler application for UNIX systems. It runs off of a simple configuration file, and has the ability to run items in a flexible [...]

This is an overview of the Firefox browser extension called “Firefox Environment Backup Extension or FEBE.
What it FEBE?
FEBE is a plugin, or extension to Firefox that allows you to backup all or parts of your environment.
Features of FEBE
FEBE can backup the following:

extensions
themes
bookmarks
preferences
cookies
usernames and passwords
phishing data
browser history
form fill history
permissions
user-defined backups (file you specify outside of the [...]

I was informed about IWantSandy through a reader comment How I Capture Random Thoughts on how I capture things. After implementing Jott based on another reader comment on the same article, I decided to look at IWantSandy.
IWantSandy.com is an online personal assistant. By sending emails to a personalized address with a few easy-to-remember codes, Sandy [...]

I recently wrote an article on Word Templates, but I forgot to point out that you can do templates in all the other Office products as well. In fact, I had forgotten you could do them altogether, because I rarely use them.
However, as I struggled with yet again overwriting the “master” Excel file I use [...]

I had heard of Jott, but never paid much attention until a reader pointed it out to me in a comment on the post How I Capture Random Thoughts. It was a suggested as a replacement for calling voicemails to leave myself reminders. I decided to take a look, and I am sorry I didn’t [...]

I knew the day would come when I would run out of material for my PDA software reviews. It’s not that it’s not out there. There are millions of titles I haven’t tried. The problem is that unless I am looking for software to meet a specific need, I don’t want to take the time [...]

I have been searching for a specific Palm software package that I don’t know exists. It would be based on Ben Franklin’s list of virtues (see the FlameBright article), and would allow me to track, on my PDA, my progress on my own list of virtues.
So far nothing has turned up.
Do any of my readers [...]

Google Desktop is a desktop search replacement tool. It provides a full-text search that covers not only text files, but also emails, PDFs, music, chat, bookmarks and more.
Where To Get It: The download can be found at desktop.google.com
Cost: This tool is free.
How I Use It: I use this at work. It allows me to track [...]