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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

This is a cool utility that allows you to share and print to printers across the internet.

Send print jobs to any computer from any computer over the internet—like to your home printer from work—with freeware application PrinterAnywhere. Just install the software and register for a free PrinterAnywhere account (requires a username and email address) to get started. PrinterAnywhere is simple to set up, and when it comes time to print a document remotely, you can just choose the shared printer from the regular Windows print dialog. Because PrinterAnywhere queues print jobs to their server, your computer doesn't even need to be on for PrinterAnywhere to work—it just fires up the job as soon as the application runs.

From LifeHacker

I have used this wallpaper switcher for about a year now. Most people probably use it to rotate images stored on the hard drive. This works great but I use it for online photos. I spend a lot of time browsing photos on Flickr. This is what sold me on John's Background Switcher. It will rotate your Flickr photos and also other peoples Flickr photos that you mark as favorites. So, while I'm browsing Flickr I can mark any photo as a favorite and it will come up as wallpaper in the rotation.

I can’t stand plain, boring backgrounds. John’s Background Switcher (or JBS for short) periodically changes the background image on your computer (like every hour or every day) to something interesting. You can specify which pictures to choose from:

Individual pictures on your computer

Folders containing pictures on your computer such as ‘My Pictures’

Flickr photo sharing - selecting pictures by person, tags, sets or just plain random. You never know what you’re going to get next!

Phanfare web albums - keep up to date with your friends and family

smugmug photo galleries - yours, your friends, anybody’s!

Picasa Web Albums - choose from specific albums or any search text

Yahoo! image search - the internet is your oyster!

Fun With Baloons

NFL Training Video

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Friday, October 20, 2006

Cool Free XP Macro Maker

I had this problem where my monitor was always blinking when I boot up. The cause of the problem is my KVM switch. To fix it a had to change my refresh rate and then change it back. I finally got tired of doing this and downloaded AutoHotkey. You start the program them hit “record”. I did my "refresh rate" routine with the mouse and then hit “stop”. After that I opened the macho text file with notepad and added a delay at the beginning. Finally, I used the AutoHotkey "exe" converter and converted my script into an executable file. Too Cool! I also looked at the help and learned that it's a full fledged macro language if you want to do more than point and click. Now I have a handy automatic refresh rate changer in my “Startup” folder.