SlickRun is an awesome floating command-line utility that gives you almost instant access to any application or website. At least that’s what the developer’s website claims, and I have to agree. The beauty of SlickRun is realized once you’ve begun to add your own Magic Words. For example, I created a wiki magic word where [...]
I have a man-crush on Google Reader. I used to be a died-in-the-wool RSS Bandit user. Then I gave Google Reader a try. I was sold the minute I added a feed to the reader at work, and I didn’t have to re-add it on my reader at home. It’s nice to be able to read [...]
In the increasingly incorrectly named Floss Pick series, my next pick is the Flickr Uploadr. I love to take lots of pictures, and Flickr is right up my alley. It gives me an easy place to share photos with my family, and I use it as my de facto backup for my pictures. The Flickr Uploadr [...]
If you’re like me, you’ve got thousands of audio files. I’ve ripped all my CDs. I listen to tons of podcasts. And now that the Amazon music store offers non-DRM MP3s, my library is growing even more. Usually I use iTunes when listening to them, but sometimes I do like firing up Windows Media Player. [...]
I’m going old school a little bit for this pick. It’s a good old fashioned text editor. Notepad++ is an excellent editor, and the latest version added a hex editor. Quite frankly, that’s what put it on my FLOSS list. I can use one app for hex and text editing. I use it for writing quick and [...]
My next FLOSS pick is something I’ve begun using for creating documentation at work. Sandcastle is tool for creating MSDN style documentation for .NET projects. If you’ve ever used NDOC, then you’ll love Sandcastle. It looks very similar, but it actually works! I’ve used it to document several VB.NET libraries. You can create chm help [...]
It seems like virtualization is all the rage these days, and my second FLOSS pick is no different. A co-worker suggested I take a look at VirtualBox, and it’s a good thing. It’s fast, free, and supports Windows, Linux and BSD guest operating systems. It runs on Windows, Linux and the Mac version is in [...]
First. Let’s define FLOSS. It’s Free/Libre Open Source Software. The Wiki entry describes it much better than I could, so if you’re interested you can read more here. The first FLOSS pick of the week is TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt is an open source disk encryption utility for Windows (2000, XP, Vista) and Linux. What I like [...]