Flame Art
This is flame art, built using Peter Blaskovics java-based Flame painter.
Thursdays Mouse Tracks
This is the path my mouse has travelled today. The dots indicate where my mouse took a rest. Dotsize, the rest duration.
This is all done using Anatoly Zenkovs Mouse Tracks, a little Java application records your mouse and draws pretty pictures.
Some observations:
Paul Fitt will be happy to note my excessive use of screen edges.
The bottom [...]
Directory Opus 9.5 Mini-Review
GPSoftwares Directory Opus (or Dopus in slang) is a Windows Explorer replacement. It adds built-in FTP, advanced multi-file renaming capabilities, dual column customizable interfaces and a plethora of other features. I just purchased it at a 30% year-end discount, and I have to admit it’s the best bucks I’ve spent in a long time. Directory [...]
Go On, Stroke It
StrokeIt adds mouse gestures to Windows and all its applications. I’ve been using it for years; gestures are nothing new, but StrokeIt 0.9.6 is. It’s Windows Vista and 7 compatible, and works superbly as always.
Gestures are invoked by holding the right mouse button and doing a gesture. My favourite gestures (which I’m having a hard [...]
Firefox 3.5 Mini-Review
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is the latest version of the open source project originally spun off of the Netscape browser. Its latest incarnation features private surfing, better history handling, a number of web standards display features, speed improvements and a tweaked icon.
With 3.7 already on the way, Firefox 3.5 may prove to be a short-lived pleasure. But [...]
Like Tabs In the Rain: How Safari 4s Tabs-On-Top Could Have Worked
It seems the general reaction to Apple pulling out their Safari 4 Beta “tabs on top” feature has been generally positive. The sentiment seems to indicate the feature to be so inferior to the workaday solution of having tabs below the address-bar, that tabs-on-top shouldn’t even be optional for those of use who understand their [...]
Is There An “OSX Preview”-Like App For Windows?
Working on the girlfriends Mac, one of the features about OSX I’ve come to like the most, is the Preview app. It works quite simply: you drag a bunch of files on to the Preview icon, located in the dock. The result, your selected files are added to a “drawer” in a preview window, where [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Mini-Review
Internet Explorer 8 is a fairly fast tabbed webbrowser which sports unique features such as a website suggestion service (based on what other sites you’ve visited) and “web accelerators”, glorified shortcuts for common tasks such as blogging or finding maps.
Compared to both Internet Explorer 6 and 7, 8 is an improvement. It is indeed faster, [...]
WorkRave Anti-RSI
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re using a mouse in your day job. Because mother nature is a bitch, such things cause RSI. Do yourself a favor, today, and install WorkRave. It’ll tell you to take a break, once in a while.
Lifehacker And Superior Software Alternatives
I find lifehacker mildly amusing. Once in a while a little news item of worth ticks in. This time, Superior Alternatives To Crappy Windows Software catched my fancy. Bonus points for dissing both Quicktime, iTunes and in part Safari for their door-to-door salesmen approaches. Because as we all know, iTunes is the new Real Player.