Archive for the 'heads up' Category

web based mind mapping

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Might be worth it to check out Mayomi, a web-based mind-mapping app.  Still checking it out and might post a more detailed review here in due course.

must have tablet pc app

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Tablet Pc Buzz is looking for some suggestions on what your “must have” third part tablet pc application would be. If you have a tablet pc then head on over and check it out.

Must have third party tablet pc app contest - win a copy of Math Journal
I’m looking for your “must have” third […]

Screen Capture

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

Download.com has a small review of a program called screen capture. I personally use the screen capture utility that comes with onenote. But if you want to capture your screens quickly, give this one a go.
 
Screen Capture 1.0
 
This small utility allows you to save your printed screens without any help of image processing software. Screen […]

Stick it to your desktop

Monday, June 20th, 2005

 Stick 2.3 Beta 5
“Stick is a desktop enhancement utility that can help you access commonly used utilities and applications. Stick does this by encapsulating these utilities into screen tabs. Screen tabs are customizable tab windows that stick to the edge of your screen. You can collapse and expand these tabs to hide and reveal […]

Treepad lite

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

This is another software heads up on a free and competent personal information manager. The price is right and it is available in several operation system flavours. Another for one for the GTD people to try. 

TreePad Lite (freeware) and TreePad Asia (freeware) are a very intuitive, small yet powerful personal database programs, only 465 Kb in size. They allow […]

Feedlounge

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

FeedLounge
FeedLounge is a state of the art web based reader of weblog atom and rss feeds. Bloglines is the obvious giant of web based readers but feedlounge looks pretty slick.

Rainlendar

Friday, June 3rd, 2005

Rainlendar is a customizable calendar that displays the current month. It is a very lightweight application that doesn’t use much system resources or take much space on your desktop.

Features

Small and lightweight

Different type events can have different appearence

Supports Windows transparency

Synchronizes events between several clients

Localized for multiple languages

Shows an alarm when an […]

synergy

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Allowing one keyboard and one mouse controling multiple PC’s. Very nice! You used to have to do this with a hardware configuaration. This software goes on the “to do on a rainy day” list.
The software is called synergy and their web site says:

synergy: [noun] a mutually advantageous conjunction of distinct elements
Synergy lets you easily share […]

desktop sidebar

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

A reader of geekyinfo – Fraser Dickson names Desktop Sidebar as his most important and most used piece of software. I have not used this one but have used such programs in the past. I don’t know if it is because my primary computer is a notebook but I found that my screen real estate […]

software heads up - desktask

Friday, May 13th, 2005

Display your important outlook data on your desktop for instant access with this free program.
DeskTask connects to Microsoft Outlook and displays your calendar and task items on the desktop.
- Your tasks will always be visible, saving precious time to launch or switch to Outlook.
- Just minimize every window, and see what are the items […]