Found this handy utility to get rid of un-wanted crap in your systray. I had an application uninstall not complete (Winfast DVR) and couldn’t find it in startup, add/remove programs or in the registry anywhere but it was always starting up on boot. This got rid of it completely.
System Tray Cleaner – FREE program for solving systray clutter.
This works perfectly, I needed solution 3 to fix it:
Check out the link below for a couple of other solutions, but the first 2 didn’t work for me, I needed to use the 3rd solution after going through a whack of pain…
Windows XP SP3 install fails with error code 0×80070005 | Windows Reference
Now that you can upload hi-def videos to youtube…well, you have been able to for a while, I’ve just never used it, there’s some querystring parameters to let you have the hi-quality version play by default. Seems youtube always plays the lo-quality one by default unless your user account has the option to pick it. Mine doesn’t. Long story short, try this code generator, it works like a charm.
Great article on RWW with a few tools to find more people on Twitter. The best one out of the bunch IMO is Twubble. It goes through the list of the people you are following and suggests other people you might want to follow.
Another cool way to find more people on Twitter is to use search.twitter.com and create an RSS feed from search results to find people who are interested in the same things you are. We’re using this at work by having some RSS feeds of various keyword searches related to our industry and we aggregate these results with technorati searches and other RSS feeds through Yahoo Pipes.
How about Microsoft stop introducing new document formats that aren’t compatible with THEIR OWN software before worrying about being compatible with Open Source formats? That’s great that Office users will be able to open native OpenOffice docs (ODF), but pre-Office 2007 users still won’t be able to open Office 2007 docs unless they’re saved down a version. Makes sense.
Microsoft says aids Office/open-source interaction – Yahoo! News
Ha, how amusing…it’s exactly what I did. Zero problems on XP, lots of problems/annoyances on Vista. Kubuntu works great on a 10-year PC in my basement and I rolled back my work PC to XP. I’ve even had family members (junior users) who have complained about Vista. It’s simple to setup and easy to turn on a new PC and get it work, but once they start using it the annoying security intrusions and incompatibilities with their existing software is quite enough to help spread the bad about Vista. The fact my Kubuntu distro takes 20 minutes to install and WORK flawlessly on LESSER hardware is enough proof for me.
DailyTech – Analyst On Vista Hate: Get Over It Or Get Off The Boat
One thing I loved about the Blackberry was the ability to have notification profiles. The default capability in WM 6.0 is not great, you pretty much have on, off or vibrate but can’t customize ringers or sound levels for data/voice notificiations. Here’s a wicked program that does just that and it is freaking brilliant. If you have a WM 6.0 device, you NEED this!
I found this really cool free flash photo gallery maker tonight. Literally took me about 10 minutes to add the photos and set it up. Now if I only had a Wordpress flash plugin to post the output right here. Definitely worth a look for any webmaster.
AnvSoft Flash Slide Show Maker – free flash photo slideshow templates
I used to have an Audiovox PPC 6000 and one of my biggest complaints was how slow the thing was. It did just about everything, but I had to soft reset it pretty much daily under moderate use. Once I got over my most recent gadget craze, I sold it and went back to my trusty Samsung A520. About 6 months ago I picked up an HTC 4000, running Windows Mobile 6. It’s a bit lighter, more well thought out and does everything. Bluetooth, Wifi, Media player, email, 2.0 MP camera, Micro SD and the list goes on and on.
Surprise surprise, it started running slow after heavy use. You can optimize the on-board memory use or use the micro-SD card to load programs or store data, but I still couldn’t seem to get it to run really fast. Enter Mem Maid. This is easily the best utility I think I’ve ever used. Bar none. It gives you the ability to clean out and compact your RAM at the click of a button, it can be scheduled to run nightly and clean up all your temp files, fragmented files, memory, old notifications, close running programs etc.
Since I picked up Mem Maid, I can recall 1 time I had to reset the device and that’s only because my wife tried to drown it by accident! Speaking of the scheduling, I run mine at midnight and it’s sitting right beside me here restoring my memory…waiting….waiting…553.34 KB freed up from unwanted stuff. It even has built in optimization profiles based on usage. For $20, that’s a helluva bargain IMO.
Anybody who owns a PDA definitely should give this tool a look.
Now this is cool. Brando’s USB micro SD card reader is about the size of the tip of your thumb. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. I can carry a bunch of data, my Linux distro and even a Mojopac image of my home PC on my 4 Gig micro SD card in my PDA. Well, either all that stuff or 1 Dream Theater MP3!
It’s a shame they’re out of stock (at least when I checked last). I definitely have to get one of these and then I’ll post an update on how such a small simple device that costs $11 can bring so much joy!
