Posts from — January 2008

Lifehacker Kevin Purdy points to a very interesting article on Wired’s How To Wiki about information regarding websites that offer you to hear music for free other than the already popular last.fm and deezer. Have a look at the list of websites and decide for yourself which you like best.

Engadget has come upon some new info with screen shots regarding Windows Mobile 7. It seems to feature new ways of interaction with touch screen devices for example multi touch recognition which would be similar to Apple. Some rotating and shaking action and some sort of camera gesture implementation. It appears too good to be true though. But then again Microsoft has thrived upon marketing itself hence the success over the years. Will this come to reality ? is a very big question on everyones mind but even if half of what is expected from what can be seen from these pictures is implemented then Windows Mobile would be much more closer to perfection (If there is such a thing when it comes to windows. HAHAHAHA!!!!)

I recently came across this cool new site called PhoneFavs which is basically a mobile version of del.icio.us. Maybe not as powerful but still really nice. Its mobile friendly as you can see and fits right in your mobile browser window without the need for scrolling back and forth. A nice way of organizing all the mobile sites you visit globally hence when you get a new phone you don’t need to worry about backing up your bookmarks.

Note: Operamini  also has a similar option which lets you synchronize with their Opera Link bookmarking feature which is free and easy to use as you can just bookmark any website you are browsing on your phone and it automatically syncs with opera link.

I originally came across this through Pocketpcthoughts.com mentioned by Paul Martin that you can easily configure your Windows Mobile 6 device into a Wifi Router hence using your carrier’s internet wireless connection from lets say your laptop. The updated thread is here of course from XDA Developers with complete instructions on how to accomplish this. The “cab” file to enable this can be directly downloaded from the creator Jongma’s site. Looks like a really great piece of software to make your windows mobile device even more lovelier than it already is. Harnessing the power of technology always brings me joy.

Lifehack.org has a really nice roundup of mostly productivity related web apps that came out last year. The round includes a Mind map generator bubbl.us, Flash based word processor created by Adobe called Buzzword, Empressr a dynamic slide show creator, Highrise an enterprise-grade contact manager developed by 37Signals, Jott a note to self service which also offers transcribing notes from voice to text and the ability to post to your blog and todo list, A really interesting financial or I should say budget management service called Mint which you can use to setup all your accounts including bank, credit cards, loans and look at the big picture, A web app Nozbe based on David Allan’s “Getting Things Done” approach, you can have a virtual assistant via Email called Sandy whom you can email reminders etc.. just like a real secretary, Another similar to Sandy app is called Scrybe which follows the same theme as Sandy meaning you can email the things you want showing up in your calender and setup a to do list, a simple online to-do list interface called Todoist which does exactly what it implies, Another similar app to Scrybe and Sandy you expect people to still behave somewhat, Vitalist seems to another app focused towards productivity and whatever other needs one has to accomplish during the day.

Appupdater is a another program posted here at Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy that can be used to update your windows apps. It will be familiar to linux users as its command based. I have used this a couple of times and it works really nicely as it scans all the installed software and checks for updates and asks your permission before installing the updates.

Web Worker Dialy has a nice article posted by Samuel Dean referring to four websites that contain free software apps of various kinds. These include:

1. tinyapps.org
2. Sourceforge.net
3. PC Magazines Download Center
4. Download.com

Secunia is a freeware app which is Window only and helps keep applications on your system upto date and also notifies of obsolete apps. Its similar to windows update but much more powerful. Specially helpful if you have a lot of application on your system like I do. Posted at Lifehacker by Adam Pash

Nice hack when you really need to go on to the internet in extreme IT lock down policies. Of course use this at your own risk as posted in Lifehacker by Adam Pash. Basically you can open any app and press F1 to get to the help section and then go to tools and click on jump to url and you should be good to go.

One thing also possible is to use the portable version of firefox. To use this you can load it on a USB Drive and stick in your work computer and in most situation you can browse the web without any issues unless the access blocked at routers end but thats very unlikely.

I love the word free specially when it comes to software. Lifehacker Kevin Purdy posted a nice snippet about new free software available at donation coder. Apps include one that show info about your music library and another one to monitor your system for bugs plus plenty more to accomplish various things like the image to text converter is pretty cool. And the best is that its all FREE!!