This week I decided to make my little hovel wireless. …[continued]
tech-tips
After eons without, JLog now has gravatars! Most of you do not. If you want your own, instead of an auto-generated one, go to Gravatar.com. …[continued]
I just can’t stop thinking about it.
Here’s an itty-bitty partial alternative for the loss of the Move To/Copy To icons in Windows 7. …[continued]
Do you ever wish you could write on a web page so you can send it to someone and show them what you mean? MarkUp lets you do that.
No installation required. Just drag the icon to your bookmarks menu.
Go to a web page. Click the MarkUp icon. Draw, add text, and publish. “Publish” will give you a shortened URL to send to others. They can ‘markup’ back to you.
Right now MarkUp is in beta.
Someone is finally building it. My dream utility. A way to add sticky notes directly to files. Any kind of files, email, even web pages. …[continued]
Here’s a nifty little tool for editing pdf’s in case you need one. PDF-XChange Viewer. It’s portable and free.
It’s not absolutely everything but it will take you quite far.
The wasps are still living in my mirror for now but I did purchase enough cayenne pepper to choke a horse and I’m dreaming up slathering on a mix of pepper and certified hexane-free castor oil to slow them down. I’ve read that yellow-jackets are known to be aggressive and to defend their nests to the death. Lucky me. I went back downtown today with Snoopy (I presume) on top of the mirror; all sprawled out and comfy, apparently suntanning his way across town. …[continued]
It was about a month ago when my monitors were giving me all that trouble that I began thinking about unplugging from some of the things I take for granted – like my computer. …[continued]
Here’s a common problem and a solution.
Let’s say you’re following someone’s research. You’ve got a cousin who has their own website and you trust what they’re doing but you don’t get to talk to them everyday and keep up on what’s happening. Or another cousin periodically sends you an updated chart by email. I’ve got a few cousins like that. …[continued]
While my computer was down for five days I was also without television. By the time I got back to CNN, nothing had changed; only another 500,000 barrels of oil had poured into the Gulf of Mexico. Untold numbers of more birds, fish and turtles had died. Then I watched a show about Japanese whaling ships violating international treaties. It’s depressing. …[continued]
#1 This is the graphics card I ordered:
VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 4650
This is genius. I’ve often been looking for something will do exactly this – print a list of folder contents. I always end up making a screenshot instead. Your choice of clipboard, Excel or Word. Directory List & Print. Compatible with Windows.
