Category Archive: Software

Dec 05

Put Remember The Milk in a Stand-Alone Window

Windows/Mac/Linux: Remember the Task simply puts web task manager Remember the Milk’s familiar gadget interface into a stand-alone Adobe AIR window, but maybe that’s just what you need.

RTM’s stripped-down, vertically-aligned rectangle is the same you’ll see in its Gmail and iGoogle gadgets, as well as a Vista Sidebar widget and desktop embeds. But since Remember the Task is its own desktop window, you can minimize it to your tray, keep it on your second monitor, or simply have it available by hitting Alt-Tab.

Remember the Tray is a free download for all systems, requires the Adobe AIR platform to install and run.






Nov 14

Convert Your PowerPoint to DVD with Freeware

Weblog FreewareGenius walks through three different methods for burning your PowerPoint presentation to a DVD using free software. Photo by garethjmsaunders.

The three methods discussed involve converting the presentation to an intermediate format like video, Flash, or JPEG, and then burning that more DVD-friendly file format to a DVD. If you’ve ever needed present somewhere where all you had was a DVD player and monitor, this post has you covered inside and out. Unfortunately there are no free one-step options, but the post is detailed and easy to follow along with.






Oct 28

Start Google Chrome in Incognito Mode

Programmer Michael T. Bee offers up a small, desktop-friendly JavaScript file that starts Google’s Chrome browser in Incognito Mode for those privacy-please browsing sessions. Actually, the script, which you can paste into Notepad or another editor and save as a .js file, starts Chrome, opens a no-cookie, no-tracks-left Incognito window, then kills the first window. If your system can’t launch Chrome by running chrome.exe in Windows’ “Run” dialog, you might have to tweak the sixth line of the script a bit. Otherwise, it’s a handy trick for, as the Hacks Blog puts it, “birthday shopping.”


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