Filed under: Web services, Microblogging
Tr.im gives up and shuts down
Nambu also appears to be experience sour grapes over Twitter's decision to use Bit.ly as its default link shortener. The Tr.im blog says that "Twitter has all but sapped us of any last energy to double-down and develop tr.im further. What is the point? With bit.ly the Twitter default, and with us having no inside connection to Twitter, tr.im will lose over the the long-run no matter how good it may or may not be at this moment, or in the future."
It's a crowded field, and some players eventually had to be pushed out, but it's a shame to see Tr.im go. I think it was a better product than Bit.ly in some ways, and I'm all for competition and user choice. Too bad Nambu doesn't feel the same way.
While Windows has the ability to automatically schedule the execution of processes, it is quite limited with respect to handling more interesting process triggering criteria. For example, if you're looking for a way to run a specific process (defragmenting your hard drive, for example) before shutting down, 
This is a quickie. Ever wish you had a
snooze button for your PC? For example, you have a job running that you know will take about an hour to run, so
you’d like to be able to tell your computer to shutdown after 2 hours. While this can be done with the task
scheduler, it’s far easier to use a small, dedicated utility to perform this function. And that’s exactly
what 
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
