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Despite the name of this ‘mode’, this windows 7 hack won’t give you almighty powers. It will, however, create a folder that allows you to edit all your computers settings from one place. It can do everything from adding a printer to reformatting your hard drive – and more. Simple How To after the break.
Google today released a preview of the Google Chrome OS…
I don’t have much to say at this point, except that I’ll probably do a review of it over the next couple of days…
Also, there’s a great article detailing the installation of it in a virtual machine at http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/guide-install-google-chrome-os/
Windows Live Writer is Microsoft’s answer to blogging from your desktop, and from what I can see, it works pretty well. The interface is clean and simple, and it can detect your blog’s theme, so you can see what your post will look like on the web (although the sidebar or header isn’t shown whilst writing, you can see it in preview mode). It supports most of the popular blogging platforms including Blogger and WordPress. Windows Live writer is easy to use, clean and simple, and makes for a great blog publishing platform.
>> Windows Live Writer is available as part of the Windows Live suite of tools.
Contrary to what you might think, DestroyTwitter isn’t a plan to bring down microblogging. No, DestroyTwitter is a cross-platform Twitter client designed to run on the Adobe AIR platform. And run well it does. Setup is a breeze, simply enter your Twitter username and password and you are immediately presented with a home screen not dissimilar in function to that of the Twitter homepage at first glance, but way more powerful once you get under the hood, and it looks better, especially since DestroyTwitter can be customized with themes. From the home tab you can tweet by opening the tweet panel. This simple panel is quite useful; it can shorten links using a variety of services and include photos. Plus there is a handy feature that allows you to shorten those slightly-too-long tweets. But, (to sound like and infomercial), that’s not all. DestroyTwitter includes Search, people search, the ability to follow people. Pretty much evrything you can do at Twitter’s homepage, and more. You will never have to visit twitter.com again.
DestroyTwitter is freeware and runs on Adobe AIR under Windows, Mac or Linux.
EDIT: The developer of DestroyTwitter has halted development. It is still a great twitter client, and is still available for download. Unfortunately, development stopped before a couple of cool features could be added. Exploring Tech recommends TweetDeck as a replacement for those who need more functionality.
>> DestroyTwitter (plus official twitter)
Need help learning Dreamweaver? Want to get that PowerPoint novice off your back? CustomGuide is here to the rescue with simple and easy to use ‘Quick Refrences’ for popular programs from Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and more. These guides have a nice an simple overview of the main interface, a walk through of main features and handy keyboard shortcuts.
>> CustomGuide Quick Refrences (via Lifehacker)
Okay, so I just upgraded firefox to FF 3.5 and pretty much immediately noticed two things that bugged me. It seems firefox has decided to take the Internet Explorer approach to tabs: Now, there is a “new tab” button attached to the last tab, and (most annoyingly) when you have only one tab open, there is no close button. Luckily, after a bit of searching, I found the solutions. Read the rest of this entry »
Envious of your mac friends? Well we can’t give you the beautiful stylings of the mac os or the plain white finish of the Mac Book; but we can give you a windows port of the popular notification system for the mac: Growl.
Growl for windows is still in beta, but looks very promising. Full review after the break!
“If you’re keen on trying out one of those clever devices from the One Laptop Per Child project, you can get halfway there by running the OLPC’s operating system from a USB drive.”
Suger-on-a-stick is a version of the linux-based ’sugar’ OS used by the OLPC, repackaged to work off a usb drive - cool huh?
>> Sugar On A Stick via Lifehacker
Looking for an FTP client? Get FileZilla, free, open source, easy to use, and by far the best client I have ever used. Apart form having a great client, they also offer a server version of the software, that allows you to set up an FTP server on your home PC. So if you are looking for an easier way to upload files to your website, or host files accross the internet, go for FileZilla.
>> Filezilla
