Category: General

AppRocket

A few days back I posted about colibri being a quicksilver ‘replacement’ for Windows Xp. After listening to one of the podcast episodes of Scott Hanselman (at Hanselminutes.com) I checked out AppRocket and decided to register it today. It’s only $18,- !

It’s well worth it. You can add directories that you want to be indexed, like your podcast directory (it will show extended info on mp3s if you want), tools directory etc. It sits happily on the top of your screen, and you activate it by hitting your hotkey, like alt+space. You can also perform fast web searches on wikipedia, google or amazon. Their website has some nice screencasts where you can check out how things work.

AppRocket Homepage: http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/

Get it from CNET Download.com!

Quicksilver on windows

Colibri Logo
One of the things you really miss, once you have also used a mac, on windows is Quicksilver. It’s a program that lets you start programs and open documents incredibly fast. Just hit ctrl-space, type a few letters and usually the right program boots up. This would be especially handy on windows, when you’re like me and install and try a lot of programs and your startup menu is totally cluttered and you cant find anything anymore ;).

Looks like Colibri does about the same thing, just recently started using it and seems to work fine, this blog post mentions some more programs that I am definately going to try.

Colibri can be found at colibri.leetspeak.org

swanWithFootInAir




swanWithFootInAir

Originally uploaded by Morphisat.

Went for a stroll today in between the rain showers and took some pretty good pictures. Unfortunetely I had been fooling around with the settings and apparently had enabled the ‘date tag’. Why there is even such a stupid option I dont know, but now these photos have the date embedded in them :(. Oh well, you learn something everyday ;).

There are also more photos on
http://ewschone.zoto.com

Mrs Peepers




Mrs Peepers

Originally uploaded by Morphisat.

One of my first good pictures using my new camera :). Mrs Peepers is curious what I am up to and takes a good long look in the lens !

Have to to a lot of practising, since it’s not so easy to get the focus stuff right. But I am sure I’ll get the hang of it eventually.

Spam driving me nuts

It seems one intelligent spammer has found a very clever way to circumvent my filters (and I have quite a few of ’em) and get his insane message to ***ALL STOCKBROKERS AND INVESTORS*** through :(. Think I already received a few thousand of these (I have a quite few email addresses and one is a domain box that gets A LOT of spam). Extremely annoying. Misery Loves Company though :).

Podshow Plus

Last week on the 4th of july Podshow Plus went open beta. I was already part of the beta, got a golden ticket to access it through their devcast. And I only logged in twice. It’s layout and how things work is very cumbersome. They implemented some Ajax stuff on the site, but it was riddled with bugs at the time. I logged in again once it went live to the public and the bugs seems to have diminished, but the cumbersome interface remains :(. What is also very annoying is when you go to the podshow home page loud music starts blasting through your speakers and a truckload of commercials start flashing :(. Especially the Casino ones make it look like a cheap site (you know the ones you stumble upon when you mistype www.yahoo.com ;)).

Basically I am missing the whole point of podshow plus. I dont need their media player (which doesnt work properly on 2 of my systems btw) since I already have iTunes (or any other mp3 player will do just as well, probably better, their player ofcourse has an annoying ad on the bottom). And I certainly dont need the channel of your favourite podcasts, since not all podcasts are in there and I dont want one big feed making a mess of things.

Apparently I am not the only one who thinks this, got some nice reviews below.

http://kiwibloke.wordpress.com/2006/07/08/10-things-why-podshow-is-lame/

http://www.podcastnyc.net/blog/

There are a lot more, just do a technoratti search and a lot of posts will show up ;).