On a recent trip, my wife and I stayed in a hotel with a single wired connection. Kind of a pain with two laptops. Luckily, I had read about Connectify for Windows 7 somewhere not to long ago which allows you to create a wireless access point from your laptop. I have to say it was an easy setup and ... [More]

I have been using the new web IDE from JetBrains (the makers of Resharper) called WebStorm through several of their preview releases now. I have to say I am really impressed. The Javascript and CSS editors seem to be miles ahead of Visual Studio (2008 at least).  They are projecting a beta rele... [More]

I had the need today to find the product key for the office install from my wife's dead laptop. (The key is in storage in another state right now). A quick Google search found Magic Jelly Bean KeyFinder. The program worked great. I just hooked my wife's drive up to my own computer as an external har... [More]

I have been using MS Virtual PC 2007 for several months now. What is Virtual PC you ask. Well, from the MS web site: Use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same physical computer. Switch between virtual machines with the click of a button. Use vir... [More]

I have been using the Office 2007 products for 8 or 10 months now and really feel they have been worth the cost ($) of upgrading and learning the new user interface. Outlook 2007 was a huge improvement over 2003! Anyway, for those of you who may be using Office 2007, make sure you have the free Sa... [More]

My fiance just asked if it was possible to increase the size of the thumbnails (96x96 pixel default) in her windows dialogs. Luckily, I knew this was one of the many options that can be tweaked by using the TweakUI Windows PowerToy which is a free download from Microsoft.   Once you downlo... [More]

One of the reasons I started this blog was to tell you about the handy computer programs that I find or use on a regular basis. One such program is SlickRun (freeware from Bayden Systems). From the company's web site: SlickRun is a free floating command line utility for Windows. Slick... [More]

I have been using a handy little utility to find the HTML/RGB for colors I have come across during web browsing to use in my own projects. It's called Pixie and is extremely light weight but gets the job done. " Pixie is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to f... [More]

Tutorial explains how to schedule a defragment of a drive other than your C:\ drive with the use of images. [More]

I have been planning to use this blog to tell you about my some of my favorite computer / utility programs. I figured I would start by telling you about SnagIt 8 as I will probably use its features in a lot of future posts. SnagIt 8 is a tool to take screenshots (pictures of your computer scr... [More]