Archive for March, 2006

links for 2006-03-24

Friday, March 24th, 2006

Eraser - Free secure data erase tool to wipe files on your hard drive
(tags: Freeware software windows utilities)

Introduction to Ruby for Mac OS X
(tags: Apple Mac osx)

Ten Ways Computer can Ruins your Health - lifehack.org
(tags: productivity)

Review on The Best Life Hacks of 2005 - lifehack.org
(tags: firefox geek GTD hack howto productivity tech tips web)

voice recognition for your treo

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Take control of your Treo 600/650 with voice recognition technology
Continuing with the theme of treo posts – this looks like an interesting piece of software that softonic has posted up.
“VoiceLauncher is the very first voice recognition application publicly announced and made available for palmOne Treo600, palmOne Treo650 and palmOne Tungsten|T3. VoiceLauncher has been fully designed […]

Brando Treo 650 Music Dock

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Steve Rohde has posted about a great idea for those of us with treo 650 mania – a music dock. I particularly like the idea of being able to use the dock as a speaker phone.
Steve writes:

“In July 2005, I made the switch to an all-in-one device, and am now a true “Treo lover.” The […]

del.icio.us implements private bookmarks

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

The del.icio.us blog points out that del.icio.us the link sharing web site now allows you to save links that are private. Could be handy! Particularly as the geekyinfo daily links are generated automatically from del.icio.us – so, now if I want to save a link that is not of a geek nature then I can […]

fedora 5

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Fedora has released a new version of their popular linux distribution. Here is a screencast of some of the new look and features in the new version.
You can view the screencast here

windows vista images

Friday, March 17th, 2006

techrepublic has some awesome high quality images of the latest windows vista beta. Some of them show details that I had not seen before - there is no doubt that in terms of looks this is a huge leap forward for Microsoft.
You would have to say that Apple Mac has lead the way for so […]

turn a regular phone into a skype phone

Friday, March 17th, 2006

gizmodo has a post about a USRobotics adaptor that will allow you to turn a regular phone into skype phone.
“Imagine a world where you can use the same phone to make both regular calls and Skype calls. Does such a world even exist? Thanks to USRobitics and their recently announced USR809620 it sure does. It’s […]

wifi hard disk enclosure

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Engadget points out a fantastic little gadget. A harddisk drive enclosure that has a wifi feature built into it. This would be very cool although I am doubting that past the cool factor whether it would actually be useful for something. But, I guess anything that gets rid of wires is good.
“Feisty Singapore startup EDS […]

transfer your old computer settings to your new computer

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Ed Bott a while ago now wrote an article that I am linking up as I think it is worth bookmarking for future use. It is an article of some of things you should consider in setting up a new PC and transfering your files and settings to the new computer.
This article is for a […]

onfolio the microsoft way

Friday, March 17th, 2006

If you want to install the new ofolio - done the Microsoft way since Microsoft aquired the company and is not releasing the software for free then you should read this post.
Kevin Tofel has been doing just that and he has worked out that you should uninstall your previous version of onfolio before you install […]