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Software Spotlight: System Scheduler

Wardell Latham — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:34:51 +0000

System Scheduler is a program akin to Windows Task Scheduler, I had used this program on a computer at one of my past jobs to automate certain tasks at regular intervals, and after some searching I recently managed to find it again online. System Scheduler doesn’t have as many event triggers as Task Scheduler, but it [...]

Software Spotlight: Greenshot

Wardell Latham — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 23:22:12 +0000

Greenshot is a great free and open-source screen capture utility which allows users to annotate, highlight, apply shapes to, crop, and obfuscate screen captures. To use the program once its installed all you have to do is press the print screen key.The advantages Greenshot has over the Windows [...]

Software Spotlight: CLCL

Wardell Latham — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:04:26 +0000

CLCL is a clipboard cache/manager for Windows that I’ve been using for a few years now. Once launched it sits idly in your system tray waiting to be used. It’s simple to use yet highly customizable, letting you configure options such as shortcut keys, menu width, number of items stored in the cache, and left [...]

Software Spotlight: BorgChat

Wardell Latham — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:25:02 +0000

BorgChat After trying out a number of different programs I must say that in my opinion BorgChat is the best freeware LAN messenger for windows. For those readers who aren’t sure what a LAN messenger is it’s simply a program much like your Instant Message client or Web Messenger but instead of connecting you [...]

Simply the Best Email Client

Wardell Latham — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:29:50 +0000

The best email client available in my opinion is Thunderbird, sibling to the Firefox web browser. What makes it the best email client? Aside from being absolutely free and incredibly easy to setup with a Gmail account, one of the main reasons for it’s popularity is the same thing that makes Firefox so popular, [...]

Software Spotlight: IETester

Wardell Latham — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:55:20 +0000

IE Tester Screen Shot IETester is a program which allows you to test web pages in multiple versions of Internet Explorer. This program is free for personal use, or a licenses can be purchased for professional use. The current version 0.2.3 allows for testing in IE versions 5.5 through 8 beta2. IETester allows users to simultaneously test [...]

Firefox Add-ons for Better Browsing & Search

Wardell Latham — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:07:41 +0000

Site Launcher starts via hot key and allows you to launch web sites using a single character key you specify, this add-on has lots of customizable options such as number of columns, background color, and displays the Fav-Icons of the sites which you import. Site Launcher Screen Shot Ctrl-Tab replaces the default ctrl+tab function of FireFox. [...]

Which Twitter Desktop Client is the Best?

Wardell Latham — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:33:33 +0000

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Related posts: Simply the Best Email Client Testing Twitter @Anywhere When will you start using HTML5?

Tag Add-ons for Firefox

Wardell Latham — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:30:38 +0000

Tagging bookmarks is a great new feature in Firefox 3 that makes it easy to recall and search through your bookmarks. I’ve recently come across two add-ons for Firefox that make adding and using tags that much easier. The first one I’d like to mention is TagSifter, this add-on is very similar to the Delicious sidebar [...]

Mobile Browser Emulators

Wardell Latham — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:10:12 +0000

Even before the release of the iPhone mobile browsing was a fast growing trend (news.cnet.com 2006). That is why mobile development has become such an in demand skill by many employers. Recently Microsoft and Mozilla have released emulators for their forthcoming browsers Windows Mobile 6.1.4, and Fennec Alpha 1 respectively. Do you test for mobile browsers? If [...]