My Geek Finds

Interesting little how-to article on using iTunes to organize your pdf documents.

http://lifehacker.com/240447/geek-to-live–organize-your-pdf-library-with-itunes

Defraggler – http://www.piriform.com/defraggler

Use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files – unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

And it’s free for personal and commercial use.

Handy little free utility that allows you to extract icons from dlls or exes and save them as an ico file.

Download it here http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.html

I’ve had my iPhone for about a week now and I’m still exploring all the cool features (there’s an app for that). I was one of those folks that always figured my cell phone just needed to be a phone, and really that’s all mine ever was – until now. What an awesome piece of technology!

I can check my email, get my bank statement, listen to music, play games, track the ISS, and even blog! I am in fact writing this blog post on my iPhone.

So far I have been playing with some of the free apps (there a 100s of them) and I am pretty impressed with the quaility of the free apps. The wordpress app that I am using to post this allows me to post to all of my blogs and moderate the comments on each of them and it’s FREE!

Very cool!

I’ll post a bit more about some of my favorite apps in another post

Have a great weekend!

Check it out I was chosen as one of the winners in the Vizioncore Crossword Puzzle contest that has been going on the for the last few weeks! The contest was to promote the release Vizioncore’s backup product vRanger Pro DPP 4.0.

I guessed at the last clue and looks like I got it right.

Very Awesome!!!

Display Windows Computer information on the desktop background.

Download BGInfo from Microsoft

Check out this online game – My Brute – http://hkb2009.mybrute.com. Kind of silly, but another good distraction if you need a break.

If you have some time to kill (waste) check out this online game Civony by UMGE.

The game is in the spirit of Age of Empires or the old Warcraft games where you have to build houses, train your army, collect resources, upgrade structures, learn skills, etc. I have been playing it for a couple of days now. It is a bit slow, but definitely a good distraction while you are waiting for an upgrade or download to complete.

Check it out at http://www.civony.com/

Hint – Lumber, Stone, and Iron – you will need plenty of each – build 4 farms, 4 quarries, 4 sawmills and 4 ironmines, then upgrade each as you can. Follow the quests that the game gives you and the resources will come.

Have a great weekend!

Between my computer at work with IE and Firefox and my computer at home running IE and Firefox, I have bookmarks and favorites spread all over the place – hundreds of them. I go home at night to do some research and remember bookmarking a site earlier but that was at work, log in to the office VPN just to get a bookmark. Not the end of the world, but still frustrating and time consuming. Xmarks allows you to easily manage, organize, and share your browser bookmarks/favorites.

I generally use Firefox for most browsing, but there are some vendor portals, sites, and utilities that either require or simply work better with IE or Firefox. Occasionally I will favorite something in IE and want it later with Firefox.

Xmarks is a free utility/service that lets you manage and maintain your bookmarks/favorites between browsers and computers. You simply sync your bookmarks using different profiles (work/home/etc) that you create and configure.

You also have access to all of your bookmarks/favorites online from any computer using the My Xmarks portal and you can share your bookmarks with others.

Check out Xmarks at http://www.xmarks.com/

Thanks to @danieldoughty for the RT a couple days ago from @techhie about Lifehacker’s Top 10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions, 2009 Edition. Great list of useful extensions.

For me the real gem in this list is the AutoCopy extension. With AutoCopy text you select in Firefox is automatically copied to the clipboard. To paste you just click the middle mouse button. The official AutoCopy website is here – http://autocopy.mozdev.org/