2009 is drawing to a close in a week. I wanted to share my thoughts on posts and events that shaped my life in 2009.
Mootools
As I close the year myself, I’ve dived into the Mootools world again. It’s a wonderful place to be, there’re so many great people working on it and it’s really quite [...]
I was looking for ways to boost the speed at which files copy from drive to drive. In my search, I found an excellent free option called TeraCopy. It has a very nice feature list and a pro-version of TeraCopy can be tested for 30 days before committing to 14.95 (in euro, about 2o usd).
Features:
Copy [...]
Codepress would have been a great tool, especially now when browsers are getting faster. Codepress is no longer under active development and therefore the links below may or may not work.
I was looking around for a way to edit code in a pretty way with highlighting in javascript. I found Codepress. It’s a solution for [...]
For the last four months I’ve been running IdleBackup on two of my computers. One of them is my server and the other is my primary computer. My server doesn’t see much action anymore, but a few months ago, I was making changes every few minutes and needed comprehensive backup. IdleBackup was there. My primary [...]
Graph paper is handy to have when drawing things and also makes mathematical equations look pretty. Of course, who has graph paper near by? I have plenty of printer paper though, so this free online graph paper site comes in handy.
There are at least forty different types of graph paper to choose from. You have [...]
My father often burns Live CDs of different versions of linux. He bought a new laptop the other day and he wanted to throw KUbuntu on it. We have an old copy of Nero 6 and a trial of Nero 9, but neither would work with Windows Vista. I set out to find a different [...]
My father recently purchessed an Acer Aspire 5735-4624 from Best Buy for $399. It’s a wonderful laptop in my opinion. This is my initial review (after four days of having it). Here are the specs.
Processor – Intel Pentium dual-core T3200 mobile 2.00GHz
Mobile Intel Graphics – Shared Memory
Memory – 2GB (expandable though)
160GB hard drive
B, G and [...]
I read on Lifehacker, Obscure Google Tricks, which taught me the search query, better than [thing here]. Since then, I’ve used it many times. Today I needed to get some help on an IRC channel for CakePHP. I used to use mIRC but of course, isn’t free and I only had it for a few [...]