Category — Windows

Now you can place Remember The Milk in your side bar. Lifehacker Gina Trapani my favorite productivity guru points this out. Its very simple to setup and keeps your to do list right infront at all times your surfing away.

Sling has annonced a couple of products during CES 2008 which include the SlingCatcher, SlingPlayer 2.0 with Clip+Sling, and Sling Cable modem as pointed by Ryan Block over at Engadget. I am really interested in the new version of the SlingPlayer Software which provides a 60min cache feature which will really make it easy to forward and rewind which seems to be a drawback when using the current software.

Finally Amazon is getting up to speed and competing with more websites that offer software downloads as an alternative for waiting to get it in the mail. As pointed out by Lifehacker Adam Pash. Right now its windows only and you have install the application to your computer for it to work.

Lifehacker points to New York Times article with Bruce Schneier answering questions regarding your computer security.

 Lifehacker article posted by Adam Pash points out to a really nice app called Codec Installer which analyzes video files and

 if you don’t have the proper codec to play the file and it find it for you over the internet. Sounds pretty cool.

Cool tip posted by a lifehacker reader and posted by Kyle Pott says to use the run dialog and type in the following command “shutdown -f -t 0″ which forced windows to kill all running processes without any user input requirement like that pesky End Now dialog and immediately shuts down your system.

Microsoft seems to have confirmed that IE 8 is coming soon. Let’s see what nightmare will this new version bring upon us poor folk as posted on geekzone.