BlogAllAlong » Software http://blogallalong.com News and articles about technology, computers, internet, search engines, books, video games, movies and documentaries Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:28:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mouse wheel scroll background inactive windows with WizMouse http://blogallalong.com/2010/03/12/mouse-wheel-scroll-background-inactive-windows-with-wizmouse/ http://blogallalong.com/2010/03/12/mouse-wheel-scroll-background-inactive-windows-with-wizmouse/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:39:21 +0000 Bashar http://blogallalong.com/?p=1780

If you’ve ever used Mac or Linux, and if you’re a heavy user with dozens of open windows, you most likely have come to admire the simple cool feature that allows you to use your mouse scroll wheel to scroll the open windows in the back, without clicking and bringing them to the front. This is pretty useful when you’re reading a document or article, which relates to say your open code editor in the front.  For some reason however, even with Windows7, Microsoft still failed to realize and copy this simple feature.

Luckily, little Googling revealed the lightweight WizMouse tool which does simply and exactly just that. I’m usually very reluctant to installing softwares that interfere with the OS and run in the background, especially on Windows. But this one seems quite light, and is extremely handy, I don’t think any Windows user should live without it.

[via LifeHacker (through Google search ;)]

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Provided by BumpTop in a FREE and a Pro version, It’s Windows only for now and I’d be really eager to pay and try the Pro one. You can subscribe for news alert for Mac and Linux versions however from the Download page. There seems to be something about widgets but I’m still not sure how easy or possible it is to make one.

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Under the Mac Giving Tree you will see a collection of

FREE Mac softwares that are otherwise commercial perhaps

Courtesy of MacHeist

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That’s the healthy for geeks to start the day. The rules of this site are very simple (and smart):

  1. New FREE software everyday for the next 24 hours
  2. You download and install the software within those 24 hours, and it’s yours for FREE as long as it works on this PC.

 

With zero dollar risk, you can subscribe to Give Away of the Day daily Email notifications, or to their RSS feeds to make sure you don’t miss the great offers you have. I’m not sure they offer some Mac products, they don’t mention it and I didn’t see any yet.
Thanks SOlo for recommending it.

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Another nice option was WinSCP Windows FTP client as well. Pretty good for SFTP and updating files on the fly, and it even has a terminal for firing up commands the old fashioned way. You can also change file permissions right from the editor through a GUI interface.

 

The latest FTP Client I’m using and finding also so much attractice is the FileZilla. It is also capable of SFTP, file updates, and file permission changing. It does not come with a command terminal however. The good thing on the other hand is, FileZilla is an open source, multi-platform client so you can get used to it and use it every where.

 

Which one is your favorite?

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1- Alt + Space: Will bring up the typing menu in your face

2- Start writing your program initials.

Launchy

See how it tries to complete program name. Just select the program from there and hit Enter. The program searches by default the Start Menus and Utilities folder. You can add to them as you like simply by right clicking the Search Box shown above and selecting Directories. For example, my WAMP Server is installed under C:\Wamp and won’t show up in this case. To fix things I just bring the Directories window and add the wamp directory as shown below. This will do it. You can specify File Extensions to include here as well.

Launchy Directories

So with this tool I could argue, never use Start menu again. Launchy also has the capacity for plugins, and launching programs is only one thing you can do with it. There is a lot more yet to be explored. with little work, you can append to files with it, schedule events, trigger SMS alert and more. See this link for a starter.

UPDATE: I looked for Launchy clones on Mac and Linux. For Linux there is Katapult. Not sure how good or bad it is. For Mac, there is el Launchy and QuickSilver. There is even better news however. Without a date being committed, but Launchy is on the way of being cross-platform available.

Katapult

el Launchy

QuickSilver

 

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” Dear …,
We think it’s important to let you know that many Palm® OS and Windows Mobile® (Pocket PC) OS software applications, including all Epocrates products, cannot at this time be installed or synced via computers with the new Windows Vista operating system.

We strongly recommend that if at all possible, you postpone installing Vista or upgrading to a new PC with Vista installed.

Since resolution of this problem depends upon software changes by both Palm and Microsoft, we regret that we cannot give you a firm date for a fix.
If you are already using Windows Vista, please review our FAQ for the latest recommendations from our customer support and engineering teams. Read FAQ »

Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Sincerely,
The Epocrates Team”


This is a really bad image for the new OS. New OS should be backward compatible as much as possible, and I do understand sometimes change is unavoidable. But with Windows Mobile, they should be more proactive to avoid such messages. Same thing happened with XBox 360 which was not backward compatible. I heard there are ways to make old games run, but still, it was not ready by it self to do so.

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The good about the service is that all the movies are full length, well produced with high quality, and its all legally submitted by the content owners. You can’t find any short home made movies, it’s not the place for that kind of stuff. If you are a producer or a publisher of original content, you can upload your stuff through the client for the world to watch.

The bad thing however is that the site is still small in content (this is what happens when you restrict for original stuff only!) and it still needs to get more publicity, which is what I am trying to achieve here. Another bad thing, for me at least, is that once I start downloading anything, the client start eating all my available bandwidth. Theoretically, I have a restriction on the bandwidth for around 25 kb, and I am paying quite a lot for my 256 ADSL Connection. But I still lose it all for a single download, and I find my self forced to shut it down. I am still trying to figure out whether I am doing something wrong, and I sure hope I am.

Still, I like to open it before I go to bed and chose my next morning movie before I head to work. Tomorrow is the first day of our working week by the way, God help me.

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Click here for the source and some details on how this flaw works, and how to protect yourself against it.

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It is worth mentioning that since the introduction of Google Talk, and their attempt to promote the XMPP standard, MSN Messenger and Yahoo one teamed up to enable cross-messaging between the two, and just few months back it was a reality. Now this shows the direction the two instant messaging giants are following, and unless things change, the XMPP standard will never do its purpose. We have seen some light of cooperation however recently, like the Sitemap standards which was an initiative by Google now in collaboration with Microsoft and Yahoo as well. So let’s hope they will soon realize, there is no escape of worldwide standards.

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Now that the door is open, and Microsoft received their sample units of the project, they are trying to get Windows, which is hungry for resources on the laptop. Bill doesn’t know when to stop taking everything as a game that he has to win, even when it comes to serving the poor. When he wasn’t a participant, it was a total cranking machine, and now he wants to have his brand on it. More on the story here.

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Nevertheless, now that Vista is released for business mainly, geeks have already started playing, hacking, and comparing. For interested readers, I suggest you go by this comparison between Windows XP and Vista. It briefly touches on different areas of performance and security.

Now before moving on, you should be ware if you are planning to find a cracked Windows Vista version, as hackers have already started distributing a download that is supposed to be an activation for Windows Vista, being called “Windows Vista All Versions Activation 21.11.06″. The download however is actually a trojan carrier, Trojan-PSW.Win32.LdPinch.aze, that will install itself in the client PC. What makes the case worse is Microsoft’s official statement that Windows Vista is designed to allow third-party software to be easily included into the Vista installation DVD, and thus have warned that pirated copies could easily come with malware preloaded inside. apcmag has more on this.

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