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Tools and Utilities Archives

Automating screen captures? October 17, 2006
I need a screen capture tool that only grabs the diffs.

ITunes, Laptops, and networks January 20, 2006
I want to sync some music to my laptop as if it were an iPod.

Growl January 5, 2006
I left something very important off my OSX apps list

My Essential OSX apps list December 30, 2005
The apps on OSX I can’t live without.

iPod accessories December 28, 2005
Mini review of two iPod accessories, the Klipsch iGroove and the Griffin iTrip.

Blackberry 7100 problems December 9, 2005
Does the Cingular Blackberry 7100 have quality problems?

Web 2.0 Bingo November 23, 2005
A bingo board for Web 2.0 terms.

Camera phone price checking service September 1, 2004
An idea for a service that can grab prices and reviews for products using only your camera phone.

Thunderbird notifier wish August 22, 2004
I’d like to see an extension that improves Thunderbird’s mail notification.

Firewire or USB NAS August 5, 2004
How about a device that lets my external drive become a NAS box?

Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible coffee July 30, 2004
The coffee from this machine is vile. It tastes bad and smells worse.

Bloglines and Firefox fix July 20, 2004
Fixing an error with Firefox and Bloglines

Mac testing February 20, 2004
A free Web service that provides Safari screenshots of any URL.

Yahoo Aggregator January 7, 2004
Yahoo launches an RSS aggregator. Maybe.

Amazon Reactivated December 4, 2003
Amazon did activate my new phone, it just took them a week to do it. Now I have two accounts.

Motorola MPx200 Review December 1, 2003
The first Windows Smartphone to be sold in the US is a winner.

Zempt competitor? July 25, 2003
What the SocialDynamX MT application is and how it affects Zempt.

FTP filters July 7, 2003
I need is an FTP program that will let me filter the files that get uploaded.

Zempt 0.3 July 1, 2003
Zempt 0.3 is out and ready for download. If you’ve tried it before and didn’t...

Simple Amazon wishlist display June 27, 2003
Insert your Amazon.com wishlist into any Web page by simply including a bit of JavaScript code.

Blogroll autodiscovery June 20, 2003
An automated way for machines to find and process your blogroll would benefit applications like Feedster as well as making it easier for tools to find related weblogs.

ActiveWords June 16, 2003
If you are a Windows user, you need to try ActiveWords. If you are a marketer, you need to try marketing by blog like Buzz does.

Button Maker May 20, 2003
Bill Zeller created a very cool web application that creates blog stickers with any text and colors you want, so I put together a user interface to it.

Nokia Screen Defect May 6, 2003
My phone’s screen has gone loopy, and I’m not the only one according to this class-action lawsuit.

Zempt May 5, 2003
Introducing Zempt, a multi-platform offline publishing tool for Movable Type.

CDMax April 30, 2003
Good software does one thing well and stays out of your way. CDMax fits the bill perfectly.

Extending Wireless through the powerline February 8, 2003
A Siemens product that ties your wireless network into your wired network through the powerlines.

Yummy November 13, 2002
Blackberry software in a Nokia phone.

Palm Word November 13, 2002
Perhaps we’ve finally found handheld nirvana. Software for editing Office documents without losing the formatting.

SpamAssassin plugin for Eudora September 3, 2002
Users of Eudora can de-spam their mailbox with this free plugin.

Block Outlook receipts August 23, 2002
A tool for blocking read receipts in MS Outlook.

Syndicated Weather June 14, 2002
A syndicated weather feed in JavaScript.

Why Treo Mail? May 14, 2002
Using a Treo to check your email has hidden costs attached.

Zope Intro May 7, 2002
CMSWatch has an introduction to Zope’s Content Management Framework. That’s good, since the Zope site...

Dreamweaver and Frontpage April 17, 2002
I occasionally have to publish to Web sites that don’t support FTP or WebDAV and...

Windows iPod April 9, 2002
EphPod is free software that you can use to connect an iPod to Windows. You’ll...

Mod_rewrite for IIS March 20, 2002
One of the most useful features of Apache is mod_rewrite, a module that allows Apache...

Blackberry phone March 4, 2002
If RIM starts making one of these in the pager-size formfactor, I’ll replace my Palm...

Radio Scraper February 22, 2002
RssDistiller is an easy to use tool for creating scraped feeds from any web site...

New Trillian February 21, 2002
Trillian 0.725 is out. This restores AIM compatibility and fixes some bugs....

Unintroduction to Web Services February 19, 2002
webreference.com | What Web Services Are NOT: "While most people are in alignment regarding the...

Thumboard February 18, 2002
Maximum PDA has a review of the Seiko Thumboard. I loved the thumb keyboard on...

Home fileserver February 15, 2002
A few weeks ago I read an article on kcgeek about creating a terabyte storage...

Microad Exchange January 30, 2002
Join my free Textad Exchange and promote your site.

Blogger Pro January 22, 2002
Details on the upcoming Blogger Pro.

Tight VNC January 22, 2002
Remote system administration on a diet.

Retractable Network January 19, 2002
A CAT 5 network cable on a retractable reel for travelers.

ASP Image creator January 18, 2002
Image generation in ASP without COM objects.

Movable Type January 16, 2002
I’ve moved from Blogger to Movable Type. Blogger was great, but Movable Type (MT) is...

Blogging with Radio January 15, 2002
Radio has released the beta of the Manila-Blogger Bridge Tool. "In a nutshell, it lets you...

Radio Blogger January 14, 2002
Dave apparently is planning a feature to allow Radio to post items via the Blogger...

Inside iPod January 12, 2002
AnandTech has a very detailed review of the Apple iPod. They disassemble it, provide specs...

Radio 8 January 12, 2002
I’ve been playing with Radio 8 and so far I like it. The news aggregator...

IE Favorites to XML November 28, 2001
Over at Aaronland there is a great Perl module and a script to convert IE...

RSSBlog 0.92 November 23, 2001
RSSBlog 0.92 RSSBlog has been updated to version 0.92. One new feature is that it...

Wayback Bookmarklets renamed November 19, 2001
New names for the Wayback Machine Bookmarklets: Latest Wayback Archive and Go Wayback....

RSSBlog update November 11, 2001
RSSBlog has been updated. The HTML tags that are used to configure your newsfeed are...

Quick Search Deskbar updated October 31, 2001
Dave’s Quick Search Deskbar has been updated to also search for software ta download.com. It...

Deskbar problems October 30, 2001
I’m having some problems with my machine that I think may be related to the...

Dave's Deskbar October 30, 2001
Users of Internet Explorer and Windows that do a lot of searching on the Web...

BlogBuddy October 26, 2001
I’m posting this with BlogBuddy. If you use Blogger and Windows, check this out. You...

Wayback Bookmarklets October 25, 2001
Here’s another Internet Archive trick. I’ve created some Bookmarklets that work with the Wayback Machine....