Archive for April 2009

Reflect has your back

Those were the days… back when one had to actually insert an Operating System installation CD, spend hours customizing the programs and options to be installed, adding drivers for each hardware device, manually installing every single utility one may need for the computer, installing the MAJOR programs, and finally adding the backed up data.
Not anymore! [...]

Cue YouTube Videos, seekTo

A long time ago I posted a suggestion on the youTube developers forum, hinting at how nice would it be to pass a variable from the URL to the actual video in order to have the clip start playing at a different location other than the start. I figured it could be useful in cases [...]

Adobe Reader Alternatives

Before I forget, I thought I mention a couple of small programs that will make your PDF-viewing experience a little more enjoyable. It is no secret that with each release of Acrobat reader (now known as Adobe Reader), the program becomes larger is size and slower to boot. I am not a big fan of [...]

Fastest Image retouching program

Sometimes I need to apply quick adjustments to an image, such as cropping, adjust levels or colors, resizing, add some words, etc. But you know how long it takes for Photoshop or any other major graphics editing program to boot? So here is the solution…

Make all windows Snap

I almost forgot about this tiny application. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just align and snap all of your application windows? Align themselves according to other windows, snap on the edges of the desktop, snap on the edges of the taskbar, specify what I like to call ‘a magnetic area’ around the edges [...]

Free 3D Authoring

Not a very long time ago, (legal) high quality 3D authoring packages were literally out of reach from us. The high cost of such programs and the difficulty level required to to learn and use them, made it hard for the average computer user to get involved in the modeling and animation of 3D models. [...]