I recently breathed some life back into my old Dell Vostro 1500 laptop, going from 1GB to the max 4GB of RAM and upgrading from Vista 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit. Even before the upgrade it bothered me that the lone “programmable” hard button wasn’t customizable at all, it only launched Dell’s MediaDirect software which [...]
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KeePass and Dropbox Are Their Own Love Child
March 2nd, 2011 
justinKeePass KeePass and Dropbox are an amazing solution to password security, and I can’t believe I haven’t been using the combo until now. I’ve been using Dropbox for a few years to sync files across several of my computers, such as useful utilities CPU-Z and CoreTemp, or as a way to send files to friends [...]
Vista Explorer Better Than Win 7, How Can It Be?
February 27th, 2011 justinSomehow Microsoft managed to screw up one decent feature they had in Vista when making Windows 7. In windows explorer you could freeze the favorites pane in the top left of the window, i.e. lock them on-screen at the top of the navigation pane. This was extremely handy for moving files around from download folders [...]
Digsby Has Supplanted Pidgin and Google Talk
February 6th, 2011 justinI’ve been using Google Talk for many moons, mainly because it docked in the Google Desktop sidebar I have been drifting away from. Of course Google Talk hasn’t been updated in over 3 years. As a secondary IM client I had been using Pidgin to connect to the few AIM contacts I had left, but [...]
Windows 7 Suffers From Severe Lack of Polish
February 4th, 2011 justinI’ve only been running Win 7 for a couple days now and the list of oversights keeps growing. Might as well keep a running list: How do I pin a config file (which launches a program) to the taskbar? You can’t. Only programs can be pinned, everything else must go in the jumplist to that [...]
The Backup Situation
January 26th, 2011 justinFor the last few years I’ve been using Cobian Backup to backup my computer to an external USB drive. Of course it wasn’t automatic, and I only ran it about every 6 months. Not ideal. Being 2011 and all it was time to automate my backups, and store them in The Cloud instead of locally. [...]
Colorpix Saved Me :effort:
January 26th, 2011 justinWorking with some HTML earlier I needed to get the hex color off an image so I could match the background page color to it. A quick search turned up ColorPix, a tiny standalone program that shows you the hex color code for whatever your mouse hovers over. Saved me the time of trying to [...]
