Archives for the 'Applications' Category

Why I’m Not Using Opera or Safari

I tried out alternatives to Firefox 3.0 but it looks like Firefox is the only one for me, for now.
Google Reader doesn’t work on Opera 9.50, which is a shame. I hope Google fixes this soon. It’s a great browser.
Safari 3.1.2 for Windows doesn’t have a new tab button, and the fonts are fuzzy. According […]

1 July 2008 | Applications | 2 Comments

Grep on Windows

For the longest time I’ve been using Agent Ransack and it has served me very well. But today when I wanted to copy some text from the search results pane, I found that I could not do so. Therefore it was time to look for an alternative file searching utility …
I had heard good things […]

25 April 2008 | Applications | 3 Comments

Adobe AIR: The Future?

My friend showed me Adobe AIR. He’s quite excited about it; he claims that this is going to be really big. What is it? Basically it’s something that you install on your machine, on which applications can run. So? The astounding part is that AIR applications can be written in HTML and Javascript. This means […]

21 March 2008 | Applications | 2 Comments

Notepad++

In a previous post I wrote about Notepad2. Now I think I’ve found something better: Notepad++. Notable (no pun intended) advantages over Notepad2 include a multiple document interface, user-defined syntax highlighting, syntax folding, multiple views, and hex editing. It has a plug-in architecture and the standard plug-ins look pretty powerful.
I spent a few engrossing hours […]

2 November 2006 | Applications | No Comments

Password Generator

If you’re looking to generate random alphanumeric characters for passwords, the following works quite well:
WinGuides.com Password Generator
[Update 6 Feb 2007] The following might be better:
Ultra High Security Password Generator

22 October 2006 | Applications | No Comments