I tried this app launcher out briefly and I was impressed. I like the easy setup, the fact that it's portable and the very nice look and feel. If you need a portable application launcher for your flash drive utilites, or even one to replace the dumb Windows Start button, this is a good choice.
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This is a free application launcher, or dock, for Windows. It allows organizing your shortcuts and folders into a convenient dock. The app is open source, which means that it's free and will remain so. It is entirely customizable and is available in multiple languages.
Muziic Player is a nice way to listen to and play music videos from YouTube. I happened to run across it while playing with some of the virtualized apps at Xenocode.com.
Muziic Player puts millions of songs right on your desktop, free and legally. Interested?
To use Muziic Player, simply type the name of the song or artist you wish to hear into the player's search bar. Muziic then searches and returns the most relevant results from the world's largest music database - YouTube.
While traditional media players only allow you to import and play music from your own collection, Muziic Player streams all of your favorite songs directly to you, 100% free and legally. Through YouTube's state of the art Content ID recognition system, major record labels are fully compensated for each song play.
I can recall when these games arrived on the scene. Doom first appeared in 1993 and DOS was the operating system. These games were that made FPS (first person shooter) games popular. I was never a big fan of Doom, but I remember playing Hexen for hours.
Some mad hacker has ported these games into Flash 10 so that you can play them in your web browser. These are the old games so you won't be impressed with the graphics, but you could sure waste some time on them if you feel they offer a challenge.
Be sure to read about the control key settings below before you fire them up. I didn't read them and died very quickly the first round.
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Doom, Heretic, and Hexen -- The demo version of three remarkable games are now playable in your browser!
====NOTE!!!====
THIS GAME REQUIRES FLASH PLAYER 10.
If the game doesn't display, update your Flash Player here:
http://www.adobe.com/go/g etflash
IF THE GAME IS RUNNING SLOW,
try clicking POP-UP to open the game in its own window.
This will especially help Safari Mac users!
Unfortunately, this game will NOT work on PowerPC Macs.
---CONTROLS---
W, A, S, D - movement
Click screen + drag or LEFT/RIGHT ARROWS - turn
SPACE - fire
R - use door/switch
SHIFT - run
ESCAPE - menu
TAB - map
NUMBER KEYS - change weapon
[ and ] - cycle through inventory (Heretic/Hexen only)
ENTER - use inventory item (Heretic/Hexen only)
Q - Jump (Heretic/Hexen only)
You can also customize the keys in the Controls menu!
Note that the medals will NOT unlock if you use cheat codes.
Here's a good tip for those who use the phone at home all the time. This may not work with a cell phone and you'll need to have a computer on all the time.
A tip from Tiffany:
Phone Tray is the best caller ID available anywhere, and it's free! Hear who's calling from across the room as your computer speaks the name and number of caller. You can set it to block and reject sales calls, use specialized rings for different people, not ring between certain hours (if you want to sleep in late) and customize it to your heart's content. Phone Tray is one handy little helper no one should be without!
PhoneTray can automatically 'zap' telemarketers with a special 'number disconnected' tone. After receiving this tone telemarketer's computer will delete your number from its database. The program can play Federal 'do-not-call' warning forcing telemarketers to remove you from their calling lists - by law!
It’s hard to beat simple online file hosting services … until you start looking at the features that come bundled with them.
Drop.io (pronounced drop-ee-oh) has a free file hosting service that literally has everything but the kitchen sink. They offer file hosting with a multitude of collaboration options like commenting, live chat, conference calls, voice mail, guest permissions, RSS feeds and email. Now they are offering a nice Firefox Plugin that lets you drop your files into their service with ease. Dropio is awesome … and the basic free service allows you to host 100mb in each drop. See this screenshot of the admin page for a drop and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
See the video below for a demo of the Firefox plugin.
Here’s a short description from the dropio folks …
Drag & drop your files directly into Drop.io drops!
A drop is a chunk of space you can use to store and share anything privately (pictures, videos, audio, documents, etc.), without accounts, registration, or an email address. Drops are not "searchable" and not "networked;" they just exist online as private points for exchange between individuals or groups.
Create as many drops as you want in as little as two clicks and set things like a password, whether others can add to the drop, and how long you want it to exist (you can renew later). Drops can be flexibly used in a range of ways from sharing family photos and videos to collaborating on group projects.
For more information, go todrop.io/about
I have not tried this service yet, but I've got it bookmarked as a good alternative to loading an OCR (optical character recongnition) program. More online office tools are always welcome in my little world.
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Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this to perform OCR on any image you supply.
This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not need your email address. Just upload your image files. Free-OCR takes either PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP or PNG format. The only restriction is that the images must not be larger than 2MB, no wider or higher than 5000 pixels and there is a limit of 10 image uploads per hour.
While I was trying out a new Firefox plugin called Image Transloader, I noticed that it defaults to uploading images to an image host called Phyrefile. This is a free image hosting service and I'm more than happy to offer them a bit of free advertising here.
If you need to send a collection of your family pictures to your cousin in Timbuktu, this is a very simple and clean way to keep from flooding his inbox with a huge download. All you have to do is send your cousin an email with links to the images.
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All images are copyright their respective owners, PhyreFile does not claim ownership of any content hosted.
This service is for NON-COMMERCIAL use only.
If you link our images to your website, please include our image-page tags. Advertisements help to pay our bills, and keep this service free!
Lately, my wife and I have been watching quite a few of the "Britain's Got Talent" videos at Youtube. Here's one that we laughed at. I hope you enjoy it.
Gary at Internet Fixes continues to amaze me with hundreds and thousands of tips for your PC. Whatever your operating system, or how you use it, a visit to Gary's site will soon have you saying "So that's how you do it!".
Q. I want to change my Default Browser back to Internet Explorer. I set Firefox as my default browser now I want to change my Default Browser back to Internet Explorer and can not seem to anywhere in the options area to do this please can anyone give me assistance
Q. I set up my home network (of 6 computers) on a Static IP system on the Linksys setup page (192.168.1.1 in browser) and after I saved it the internet did not work on this computer, I changed it back to assign automatically and it works fine. I want to know if there’s a different way to do it... I tried it before like it tells you on port forward.com and the same thing happened.. Is there something I am doing wrong?
A. 192.168.1.1 is the IP assigned to the router. That is not the IP you want to use on
Q. I have a MSI computer running Windows XP2 Home Edition. I continually receive an error message when try to open programs "Application failed because FRAMEDYN.DLL was not found." Is there any way to fix this missing .dll? Thank you for your help.
Q. My Neighbor across hall from me, has a problem getting his "classic view" to show up when he's in his "Control Panel" screen. All he sees are the programs on one page. No panels on the left side at all. How can I get his control panel to show up in the "Classic View"? He has Windows XP (Home) Edition as his OS. Thank you
Q. I’ve just change my OS from Windows XP to Windows 2000 as I don't have the original XP cd. After formatting it, my computer screen Windows becomes smaller and I can't even resize it. If you can help me.
A. There are special drivers for the computer for installing
Q. Can you tell me how I can add items to the left side (icons) of the "Look in" dialog box in XP? I use this for attaching files to an email and would like to have the most frequently used folders there instead of having to drill down.
A. Customize The Places Bar In The Open Dialog Box In XP.
Q. Every now and then the G & T drives will switch drive letters when this happens I cannot get into the G drive.
I have a HP computer with the following drives:
A: 3 1/2" floppy drive
C: Local drive
D: CD drive
E: DVD-RW drive
G: My Book "external drive"
T: Removable drive "HP Printer 7160"
Every now and then the G & T drives will switch drive letters when this happens I cannot get into the G drive. Is there some way I can get into a built in program and change drive letters?
Q. I have file shortcuts on my desktop. When I click on the shortcuts it opens up a search results window instead of the folder and the documents in it. I talked to tech support for over an hour today and the guy was not able to help at all. Example of steps I took: 1. Opened web page that I wanted. 2. Sent to desktop as shortcut. 3. Repeated with 3 other web pages. 4. Created new folder on desktop 5. Moved shortcuts into new folder called "Special Web Pages" so they well all be located in one folder. 6. Click on Special Web Pages folder and got search instead of links to 4 shortcuts. I am able to right click and hit open and get the shortcuts but there must be some other way to handle the folders so I can just click and open instead of getting search? Thanks
A. It sounds to me as though the default action for your folders has somehow been
COOLSITES is a list of safe, fun, useful, informative and just plain cool websites and programs that are FREE, FREE and FREE. All of the programs and websites I list are free. If I list anything that is so good but isn't free I will list the price with it.
Wow! Almost 1000 people and still growing! I invite all of you to record your locations on this map. You can include as little or as much information as you wish. I think you'll enjoy seeing yourself there.
Here's a small look at my frapper map.
Get Gmail! and Get Firefox!
You need a free 7 GB Gmail account to access many of the cool features at Google. After more than two years in beta testing Gmail is open to the public. Just go to http://gmail.com and sign up for an account.
I think Gmail works best in the awesome Firefox browser. It's free, easy to use, and it's way more secure than Internet Explorer. My favorite thing to do is to customize Firefox so that it does much more than IE ever could. You can select new button controls for your toolbars, install extensions to add new features, or change the look of your browser with themes - the way Firefox looks and works is under your control.
I get many of the reviews in the newsletter from the readers. You don't have to be a genius or computer guru. Just answer a few questions and send me a review. I'll probably put you in the newsletter.
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