Technobrief #4
Summary: Recent discoveries: software, articles, videos, and more.
Since the last technobrief, I have added the following to the list of items worth checking out:
Software
- Avanquest Connection Manager detects laptop network settings and sets up printers, email, and disk drives and other connection-specific resources.
- Configuration Mania Firefox add-on for editing advanced Firefox settings.
- CubicExplorer is a better alternative to Windows Explorer.
- DVD Catalyst Free converts DVDs and other video formats (avi, mpeg, divx, xvid, mp4, mkv, etc) into format that can be played on portable video players (iPod, Zune, etc).
- FireFTP Firefox add-on for accessing FTP servers.
- Jing screencast and screenshot software for capturing images, recording videos, storing and sharing them online.
- Ka Type In inserts predefined text snippets into any application.
- KMPlayer plays most video and audio formats without the need to install additional codecs.
- nCleaner cleans your system and applications, frees disk space, and boost your system's speed.
- Open IT Online Firefox add-on for editing documents and images online.
- Ordered Preference Import/Export Firefox add-on for exporting and importing Firefox extension settings.
- Pencil Firefox add-on for sketching and prototyping.
- Pismo File Mount mounts compressed archives (ZIP files), ISO image files as virtual drives.
- Pronounce Firefox add-on for pronouncing English words.
- Read It Later Firefox add-on for bookmarking interesting pages that you would want to read when you get time.
- Speed Launch application launcher for opening frequently used websites, documents, and applications.
- WinDirStat disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool.
- Windows SteadyState allows to revert a computer to a previously stored state every time it reboots, or when an administrator sets it to.
- Xerox Mobile Express Driver allows you to print to virtually any PostScript device on your network, even to those made by other manufacturers, without installing device-specific drivers.
- XnView shell extension adds graphics-specific options (image thumbnail, image format conversion, etc) to the context menu.
- ZoomIt screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations.
- Deezer and Imeem offer storing, (legal) sharing, and steaming of your favorite music (I can't yet figure out which one is better).
- HP Blog Printing widget lets your blog readers choose the posts they want to print, free of sidebars, ads and other clutter.
- Just-Traceroute online route tracing from four or more servers located on different continents.
- Podmailing lets you send and share really huge files.
- Electing a US President in Plain English (okay, it's not a technical presentation, but still very informational)
- Embedding help so it will be used by Heather Fielding
- How to Send Tactful Emails from a Technical Support Desk by DailyWritingTips
- What I Learned From Going Bankrupt in My 20s That Proves to Be Immensely Valuable in My 30s by Steve Pavlina
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