Such remote locations include but are not limited to:
- your local library
- the internet cafe down the street from work
- your aunt's house
- those weird McDonald's locations with internet computers inside
- the boss' laptop
- Russia
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Web-based Vi text editor hits the web: text-edit from anywhere!
Such remote locations include but are not limited to:
TUGzip: Decompress anything
- Archive formats - ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1
- Disc image formats - BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and Nero's NRG
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Undelete files on Linux with GIIS
Imagine you just finished writing an important document with your favorite word processor. You hit save, and turn in for the night, satisfied that everything is fine. Unbeknownst to you, something happens as you slumber. Maybe it's a wayward nephew, maybe it's your cat, but at some point, something or someone deleted your precious file. What do you do?Rest easy, friend, and take a look at this. Although the author of this app doesn't seem to know how to run SpellCheck, Get It I Say (GIIS) is an invaluable data recovery tool. All you need is a Linux based system and a hard disk partition that uses EXT2 or EXT3.
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Together 2.0 - organize your stuff easily
Earlier this week we previewed Bento, the new personal database application by FileMaker. Today we take a look at another Leopard-only Mac application aimed at keeping your files organized and easy to find: Together 2.0. Together, previously known as Keep it Together (KIT), is a pretty slick application from Reinvented Software that promises an easy way to keep all kinds of files in one place, making it easy to find them again later. Using a drag-and-drop interface and taking advantage of both Spotlight and Quick Look in Leopard, Together shows a lot of promise as an easy to use data organizer.Together works, essentially, by dragging and dropping files and folders into either the application itself, or to a designated group or folder in the Shelf, a side menu that can be quickly accessed from the desktop, regardless of what program you are using. You can then label or tag those items and add notations or make small edits. Parts of the program reminded us of the Google Notebook, but without being exclusively web-based. For instance, we were able to drag and drop graphics from a web page directly into Together 2.0, without first saving or opening the file in a separate window. Likewise, selected text is copied (sans markup) to a new text file. Web archives can be created from within Together 2.0, either from existing bookmarks or a manual URL - and the text on those pages can be edited instantly.
Tap Tap Hotkey Extender
DonationCoder has produced a number of useful utilities, and today they contacted us to let us know about a new one: TapTap Hotkey Extender. As is often the case with DonationCoder applications, TapTapHotkey Extender is a tiny little utility that takes up almost no resources, and does one simple thing well. The idea behind TapTap Hotkey Extender is to to take typical hotkey shortcuts, and simplify them by offering the option to map them to a double-tap of a common key like CTRL, ALT, SHIFT or WINDOWS. You have the option of specifying the left or right version of the key you want to map to, as well as added configurability with respect to simply remapping key combinations to something more convenient.
iPod Notes Packager: Put any text file or web page on your iPod
iPod Notes Packager is a great free web service that will take any text document or web page and turn it into a notes file that you can read on your iPod. The service is dead simple. Just enter a URL or upload a text file and it gives you back a zip file containing the iPod-formatted files. Of course, the format is pretty limited, but not bad for basic text. (Needless to say, this won't be very useful to you if you have an iPod shuffle.)Preview your site in IE7 and Safari on the web
Need to test some web design on a Mac - sans the Mac? How about making sure your CSS is
Graphically view your disk space usage with Filelight
Filelight is a Linux utility that creates a concentric graph of your computer's disk usage. Each color represents a different type of file, such as documents or apps, so it's easy to tell which is the biggest bully on the block. I found a utility like this for Mac OS X over on TUAW by the name of Disk Inventory X - has anyone seen a similar app for Windows?
No specific OS flavor is required, though Qt 3.2 and KDE 3.2 are. Filelight is available from MethyBlue and is released under the GNU General Public License.
Microsoft announces OneCare official release
After months of beta-testing, Microsoft has announced the official release of Windows Live OneCare, its Windows security and maintenance suite. OneCare includes anti-virus software, firewall, a backup utility, and spyware protection via Windows Defender, plus disk defragmentation, cleanup, and Windows Update features. OneCare is now available through the Windows Live web site and will cost you $49 per
TimeSnapper: Automatic Screenshot Journal
TimeSnapper is
an interesting Windows app, and though I'm not sure what I'd use it for, I'm sure someone out there has been looking
for something just like it for a long time. It advertises itself as an "automatic screenshot journal", which
mens that takes periodic screenshots of whatever's on your screen and then lets you play them back however you like.
You can configure the number of seconds between screenshots and the playback mode lets you pick a date and then use a
slider/timeline widget to show a particular part of the day and play it back at whatever speed you want. It's sort of
time lapse photography for your desktop, and could be handy for figuring out, for example, how much time you spent on
Project X. Best of all, TimeSnapper works on multiple monitor setups and is completely free.
