I discovered a very simple Firefox extension (myurlbar_a) today that made me wonder how I have ever managed without it. It allows you to type site/page names (as well as the usual URLs) into Firefox’s address bar. If you type a name instead of a URL, this extension searches your bookmarks and your history for [...]
There are a number of free programs that would like to be your desktop search engine. I’ve tried a number of them and with one exception have found them either too resource hungry, too inconvenient in the presentation of search results, or both. The exception has been the less known Copernic Desktop Search. Version 1.x [...]
If you like music, you’ve probably heard of Pandora, a streaming music discovery web application. You give Pandora an artist or a song you like and it creates an online radio station based on that artist or song — finding and playing songs it considers similar. Amazingly, Pandora generally does a good job understanding “similar” [...]
If you’ve been using a computer for many years, you probably remember DOS and probably have an old DOS application or two that you really miss, but just does not run well under Windows XP. Your old DOS program just does not play well with Windows XP. It polls the keyboard constantly and never releases [...]
You can press Alt-Tab in Windows to easily select from your open windows, but to use it effectively, you have to remember which icon goes with which window. This can be hard if you have multiple copies of the same window open. TaskSwitchXP is a replacement for the builtin Alt-Tab function. It adds a [...]