In a nutshell, Sandboxie allows you to run Windows programs in a “safe” environment, called a sandbox. This tutorial will show you how to set up and use Sandboxie. Continued…
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Dashboard Widget: Facebook Watch
Facebook Watch is an OS X Dashboard widget that allows you to quickly access your Facebook info – including: your wall, your friends recently updated profiles, your inbox, notifications and more. Keep reading for more info and a few screenshots. Continued…
Posted in Mac.
– July 25, 2007
An Introduction to Exaile
This overview will (attempt to) acquaint you with Exaile, “a music player aiming to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support via a plugin”. Continued…
Posted in Linux.
– July 25, 2007
How to use vMailias to generate unique email addresses for easy sorting and filtering
vMailias is a small OS X app that helps you create unique redundant email addresses for web site registrations. Tracking which email address was used for which web site also makes it easy to set up rules to guide email from different web sites into their own folders, and to easily identify the source of spam to filter it out. Combined with gmail, and this becomes a very helpful application. Continued…
– July 24, 2007
How to install Kubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3) using VMware Fusion in OS X
This tutorial will take you every single step of the way through installing and setting up Kubuntu in OS X, using VMware Fusion. It will also guide you in installing VMware Tools, troubleshooting network connectivity, setting up and accessing shared folders. The steps and screenshots are specific to the latest (as of July 23rd, 2007) version of Gutsy Gibbon (Tribe 3), which is an alpha release. With that said, it will likely be very similar if you use this guide to install Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). Continued…
– July 24, 2007
How to use AppTrap to completely uninstall Applications in OS X
This brief tutorial will guide you in using AppTrap, a terrific (and free) Application uninstaller for OS X. Continued…
Posted in Mac.
– July 23, 2007
Email Virus Warning: That Greeting Card isn't from Mom
From this Washington Post article:
Internet spammers launched a widespread attack on e-mail inboxes this month. But instead of trying to lure users into opening a corrupted attachment, they’re concealing a computer virus in a link to an online greeting card.In most cases, the subject line informs recipients that they’ve received a greeting card or a postcard from a “friend,” “family member,” “worshipper,” “school-mate” or “neighbour.” When the e-mail is opened, there’s a link to a Web site that uploads a virus to the recipient’s computer.
I’ve received about 40 of them over the last week.
– July 22, 2007
How to install KDE 4 in OS X
This (brief) tutorial is by no means the ‘only’ way to install KDE 4 in OS X. However, it’s probably the easiest. Keep reading for a step-by-step walkthrough, and a couple of disclaimers.
– July 22, 2007
Simplehelp Updates
As you may have noticed, Simplehelp has been ‘down’ much more often lately than I’d like. It all relates to my previous host disabling me, moving to a new host, being on the front page of digg when the (new) server wasn’t ready for it, and the lack of a wp-cache plugin. Anyway – that’s all fixed now (in theory). This post has an actual intent too – to push the changes made by the Full Text Feed plugin live (after WP 2.1 feeds are cut off if you use the <!–more–> tag, which is annoying if you want to allow RSS subscribers to read the full text of your post, which I do).
Posted in Other.
– July 21, 2007
An introduction to FMenu – an OS X app for Facebook
If you’re a Facebook junkie (I’ll admit it, I’m a bit of an addict) who uses OS X, FMenu is an absolute must download. Fmenu is a small app that resides in your system menu. It provides notifications about various Facebook events (new wall posts, new inbox messages, status changes etc) via Growl. In addition, it lets you quickly access almost all of your Facebook pages. Keep reading for an overview with plenty of screenshots.
Posted in Mac.
– July 21, 2007
10 (more) Windows Explorer alternatives compared and reviewed
Hi digg visitors. I have recently moved from shared hosting to dedicated hosting, and it would appear that I picked a server that doesn’t have enough memory and a fast enough CPU. I’ll be upgrading later this weekend. Sorry for the inconvience, I assure you this is frustrating me more than you 
In October of last year I wrote 15 Windows Explorer alternatives compared and reviewed – which was quite popular. To this day I get people emailing me or leaving comments on the original post suggesting I try out other Windows Explorer/file managers alternatives. So here’s a roundup of 10 other alternatives that have since been suggested to me.
| Name | Cost | Trial? | Rating (x/5) |
| AccelMan | 29.95 EUR | yes (30 days) | **** |
| FileAnt File Manager | donation-ware | n/a | ***¼ |
| FileQuest XP Gold | $67.95 USD | yes (50 days) | *** |
| Frigate 3.34 Pro Edition | $39.90 USD | yes | ***½ |
| Gyula’s Navigator | free | n/a | ***¾ |
| Idoswin Free | free | n/a | n/a |
| Magellan Explorer | $39.95 USD | yes (30 days) | ***½ |
| mtExplorer | free | n/a | **** |
| Unreal Commander | free | n/a | **** |
| WinBrowser | $19.95 USD | yes (60 days) | *** |
– July 19, 2007
An introduction to Miro
Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an Internet TV video player. Miro used to be known as Democracy Player, but as it approaches v1.0, it’s now known as Miro. For a brief introduction to Miro (and why I think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread), keep reading.. Continued…
Posted in Bittorrent, Linux, Mac, Windows.
– July 18, 2007
How to add any search engine to the Firefox Search Bar
With the fantastic Firefox plugin Add to Search Bar you can easily add any search engine or field to your Firefox Search Bar. This brief tutorial will show you how to use it to make your searching life that much easier.
Posted in Firefox.
– July 17, 2007
Invites Galore
Update: out of Spock invites, I’ll update when I have more.
Just a quick note – if you’d like an invite to Moola, Pownce or Spock, please leave a comment below. Just tell me which one you want an invite to, and use a valid email address in the comment form. Cheers!
Posted in Other.
– July 17, 2007
An introduction to Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo describes Pipes as “an interactive data aggregator and manipulator that lets you mashup your favorite online data sources”. Alright, but what does that mean to the rest of us? Yahoo Pipes uses an easy-to-understand visual editor that allows you to (among other things) take multiple RSS feeds, combine and filter them, and then output all of that information to one RSS feed.
This tutorial will take you through the steps to filter the content of one RSS feed (Techmeme) so that content you may have already read isn’t included in your Techmeme feed. Continued…
Posted in Other.
– July 16, 2007
