Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Freeware I've been writing about plenty of manual ways to keep your hard drive neat and clean recently. That's a nice start, but what about some automated help along the lines of Auto-Delete?While Download Mover is no longer actively developed, it's still good at what it does. Download and extract the zip file and launch the executable, and DM will ask you where and what you want to monitor. Specify the interval for checks and set your notification options, and you're done.You can specify multiple folders to watch and specify different targets for each file...
Just a few short years ago, the idea that blogging could be a full time job seemed farfetched. Yet today there are a number who manage to do this, though the hours required are infamously brutal and the work required great. These days it makes sense to blog for profit in pajamas, since you’re going to be up most of the night anyway! But what about microblogging? You could make the argument that paid microbloggers already exist in the form of social media workers who make their wage by blogging, microblogging, and engaging far and interwebs wide on the behalf...
Filed under: iPhone, iPhone 101, iPod touchAre you worried that your iPhone or its data might get stolen? If you are, then this post is for you! Let's take a look at the iPhone's security options, starting in Settings > General > Passcode Lock.If this is your first time visiting the Passcode Lock settings, then you will be prompted to create a 4-digit passcode -- this can be anything, just make it memorable. Once you've entered and confirmed your passcode, you will see a couple options. The first two buttons let you turn the passcode lock off, or change your...
I don’t know how many people are as OCD as I am when it comes to keeping track of car maintenance and gas mileage. I’ve gotten burned a couple of times for not having done all of my scheduled maintenance. One of the things that I’ve been keeping an eye out for is a good method of tracking all of my vehicle related information. The problem that I keep coming across is that many of the software that performs this function depends on you entering data after the fact, which I tend to forget to do. Auto 3in1 is...
It’s impossible to miss the fact that stocks, real estate and bonds all make for decent investments (at least most of the time). But there are so many different investment options, most of which get minimal marketing. If you want to take a look at a wider variety of options, you should be able to at least tell an American Depository Receipt apart from a Convertible Security. There are about twenty investments that any investor should at least be familiar with and the ten listed below are the first half of that list. 1. American Depository Receipt (ADR) ADRs are...
Your desktop is probably the one thing on your Mac which you stare at day in, day out. It is also the most configurable - with the right applications, of course. If you’re bored out of your life with the default wallpapers and screen savers which Apple provides, read on. This article will definitely bring some long awaited excitement to your desktop and will probably lift your mood as well. Sit back and enjoy your desktop. Never thought you’d say those words, huh? Wallpaper Managers Why would you want to stare at the same old wallpaper all the time when...
Every chart of technological progress zooms upward. Ray Kurzwiel has collected an entire gallery of graphs depicting the exponential upward trend in many, if not most, technological fields. All graphs of technological progress start low with small change several hundred years ago, and then begin to bend upwards in the last hundred, and then bolt upright to the sky in the last 50. A fairly typical chart would look like this one: These charts capture a feeling we have that change is accelerating within our own lifetimes. Novelty arrives in a flash (compared to earlier), and there seems to...
It's been a while since we've had a good Adobe AIR app cross our paths. Today we ran into one that will be a great addition to any WordPress user's collection of apps and tools. If you're tired of the old routine of constantly logging in and out of your WordPress dashboard just to moderate comments, Moderator may be the perfect solution for you. Sponsor Features and Design Moderator is a simple app that does its job well. The app provides you with notifications of how many comments are waiting on your approval both inside the app and also...
In Linux, setting an image as the desktop wallpaper is not a difficult task, but getting it to change automatically at a certain interval is. While there are plenty of wallpaper-changing apps available for Windows, there are only a limited few for Linux. If you have a good collection of wallpapers and want to see them in action on your desktop, here are 5 wallpaper changers that you can use in your Linux machine. Most, if not all, of them are meant for the GNOME and KDE desktop. Webilder Webilder is one of the best wallpaper changers for Linux. Not...
AMD’s 4000 series has been exceptional in that not only has it exceeded NVIDIA at the high end while keeping the price down, but the budget offerings going all the way down to <$100 are good performers for the money as well. The new HD 4830 slots right in between the 46XX series ($70-80) and the 4850 (~$170). At around $130 or less, the Radeon HD 4830 provides DirectX 10.1 support and pretty decent performance. There’s a good review over at Hot Hardware with more info, but it’s pretty much what you expect. Support for everything you need and...
And the (OS 2.1 bug) train keeps a'rolling. Now iPhone users who've upgraded to the latest operating system are discovering that, when their unit's on battery power and in sleep mode, Fetch won't retrieve email in the background. It's theorized that one of the power-saving tweaks introduced in 2.1 is the culprit; Apple says that the 15-minute fetch interval is the worst wear on the battery because it never lets the phone go into deep sleep mode. Apple also admits it's a "known problem" that they're looking into, but won't give a time frame as to when this particular...
Daniel Dura has released an AIR application called Moderator. It allows you to moderate your Wordpress blog comments direct from your desktop using Adobe AIR. This is a very early release but the feature list already looks impressive. Dock and system tray icons show the number of unmoderated comments. You can accept, delete or mark as spam the comments directly in the app. If the user has a Gravatar then this get’s shown next to the awaiting comment. Via the setting button, you get to control the polling interval between 1 and 60 minutes. There is also update functionality...
So much for the new, friendly China. Apparently the “Great Firewall of China” has been replaced, following a brief interval during the Olympics when internet restrictions were eased. Now the bricks are being re-laid, and with fewer gaps to boot: they are now requiring internet cafes to photograph all customers. Not quite to the extent suggested by my inflammatory photoshop job up there, but you get the idea. Two thirds of the population opposed the measure, saying it violated their rights, but as usual the government ignored their complaints and instituted the policy anyway. Not exactly what everyone was...
Your Mac’s built-in iSight can do more than just let you play with Photo Booth and allow your friends to see you when you’re chatting. With the right software, your webcam can transform from merely being a toy to a useful tool. Gawker is a free application which your iSight uses to create time-lapse movies. As with all time-lapse movies, it uses a collection of photos taken within an interval (every 10 seconds, for example) and combines them to form a video. Gawker’s party piece is: it does it all for you! Upon running Gawker, it searches for your iSight;...
In 2010 Ford will introduce a car key that parents can give to their teenage drivers, which changes the settings on various safety features in the car. The MyKey system allows the parent to program any key through the vehicle message center, which updates the SecuriLock™ passive anti-theft system. When the MyKey is inserted into the ignition, the system reads the transponder chip in the key and immediately identifies the MyKey code, which enables certain default driving modes, including: - Persistent Ford Beltminder™ with audio mute. Ford's Beltminder system typically provides a six-second reminder chime every minute for five...
Another bug in iPhone OS 2.1, which we have tested and reproduced, is that it will no longer fetch emails in the background while in sleep mode on battery power. It's most probably one of the power-saving tweaks introduced in 2.1, since Apple says that the 15-minute fetch interval is the worst wear on the battery because it never lets the phone go into deep sleep mode. This Apple discussion thread chronicles the problem at length. It's possible it'll be fixed in the next update—a reader tells us that Apple confirmed it's a "known problem" and that they are looking...
