Archives for the 'Applications' Category
Movica: WMV Editor
I wanted to help my friend upload a video to YouTube, but his video was too long (more than YouTube’s 10-minute limit). So I was searching for something that could extract sections from a WMV file and found Movica. I don’t know whether it’s the best but it worked for me. What I like about […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]