May
25
2008
0

MacDock on Windows EASY and LIGHT

Do you love Macintosh Usability and some cool Eye Candy for free.

Just click below and get a glimpse of what you can do for free on trusty old windows XP.

www.rocketdock.com

Don’t forget to add StackDocklet from Addons

And Get some cool skins and Icons from there

Click on Get Addons

Written by Kishore in: windows, windows addons |
May
22
2008
0

Safari for windows is finally usable now

Safari for windows is out of beta and finally usable now. I have been eagerly waiting for this release and have tried out various beta versions before. As expected beta versions had so many bugs that it was virtually unusable for some sites and on corporate networks.

I have been trying out the Safari 3.0 for a couple of days now. It is quite cool to see all the eye candy on windows xp. It looks cool and runs smooth on most standards compliant websites. Which is fine with me as I don’t go to too many IE specific crappy websites as I use firefox as my main browser.

I have just downloaded Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 and I have to say it’s so much better. Awesome bar (Address Bar) is really awesome. That is so easy to use and labels/tags for bookmars are in, which is very future thinking. It may be confusing to traditional users who would like to organize their bookmarks in folders. But believe me, just be patient it will be worth it. Once you cross hundred bookmarks it becomes really hard to manage the traditional way. I have been using labels in gmail for a while now and it’s way better than folders.

But I’m having my fingers crossed on most important of them all MEMORY BLOAT. So far it seems to be reasonable. But I will keep you posted.

Written by Kishore in: browsers, firefox, safari |
May
18
2008
0

Do you like Vista’s Instant Search/Launch within Start Menu?

I do and I believe that is the biggest improvement in usability Vista has achieved (yeah, more useful than all the Flip 3D and eye candy).

Now you can get all that on XP itself. (Acutally this has been there all along)
It’s cool and has a light footprint of 15MB and stays there.

AND DO NOT FORGET TO READ THE README FILE, It tells you a lot.

Written by Kishore in: windows, windows addons |
May
01
2008
0

Easy way to Do screen shots from Fire Fox

Ever wondered…
  • How you can take a whole screen shot of a long webpage at once?
  • How you can take only the content area and put comments / edit/ crop /hightlight/draw in oneplace

And just send the picture away..

Now you can..

Fireshot One more reason to switch to firefox
The best screen shots of webpages ever on Firefox
  1. Take screen shot of whole page (Visible/Non Visible part)
  2. Inline crop/edit
  3. Inline highlights/comments
  4. The best

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648

http://screenshot-program.com/fireshot/

Try now and be amaged..

Only for FireFox users..

Written by Kishore in: firefox |
May
01
2008
0

Easy way to do screen captures/shots

If you already use a good tool to do screen captures, you can pretty much ignore this and checkout this good alternative

As with all the emphasis on knowledge sharing and stuff. I have been trying to put all the important items into shared documents/wiki on sharepoint for Horizon.
And one of first frustating points about this is being forced to type lot’s of text. I hate typing lots of text/more than being forced to go through it. I naturally prefer screen shots (with the belief a picture’s worth a thousand words). Which in turn made me realize how basic the windows PrintScreen button is.

After a bit of research I came across this nice tool

Gadwin Printscreen 4.3 which lets you take screen shots of
  • Whole Screen
  • Active WIndow
  • A Custom Square…
  • Save them to a pre-determined location…
  • Open them up for preview

All at a touch of a button with little initial configuration. Give it a go.. it’s very neat…

I’ve downloaded it and placed in H:\eBusiness Team\Software\Screen Capture\PrintScreen43_Setup.exe

check it out..

Written by Kishore in: screenshot, tech, windows, windows addons |
May
01
2008
0

Windows Readyboost on XP with EBoostr – Initial Review – Part 2

Well well… Between a long dinner with friends and late night cricket match.. I was able to squeez in an hour to give eBoostr a whirl ..

I used a San Disk 4 GB U3 Cruiser (‘Windows Readyboost Ready’ USB dongle from OfficeWorks). I allocated all the 4GB for caching file.

1. It significaly speeds up switching between applications when you have multiple applications running. I had Eclipse, Visual Studio, Firefox, Photoshop open at the same time and switching was pretty fast, under 1 sec if I had to be specific. But this is no real test as I had them open for only half an hour.

2. It had this nice cache viewer, which revealed all the files being cached and you can exclude certain files like MP3 and stuff from being cached. That was nice and I could see that half my cache is filled with current files being indexed by ‘Windows Search’ plugin.. crap.
I will probably put it through the grind this weekend and come up with more info on this.

Written by Kishore in: tech, windows, windows addons |
May
01
2008
0

Windows ReadyBoost on XP

One of the best things about vista I liked is it’s ability to speed up the system using a USB memory. (Windows ReadyBoost). It uses it as the RAM(or a PageFile) to significantly speed up the system.
Now we have the ability to do the same thing in XP. Check eBoostr

I’m gonna give it a try this evening .. See how it goes…

Written by Kishore in: ram, review, tech, windows |

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