I wish I had found this powerful, free utility a couple of days ago. Over the weekend I was trying to see if communicating with Kubuntu — which I run in a VMWare virtual machine and communicate with via a ssh network connection — was faster over a VMware host network connection or a real [...]
You’ve probably heard of Nethack (wikipedia entry). It is a rogue-like adventure game that has been under continuous, if slow, development since the late 1980s. It has great gameplay and more functions and surprises than most commercial “hack and slash” RPGs. Unfortunately, it has extremely primitive “graphics” — letters, numbers, and other characters [...]
FreePops is an interesting program that will allow you to read email from a very large number of supported WebMail sites in your mail client of choice (Thunderbird, Outlook, The Bat!) etc. It does this by setting up a simple POP3 server on your system that will get the mail from supported Webmail sites and [...]
Many Windows programs (e.g. CuteFTP, CoffeeCup Free FTP, VNC, IncrediMail, Outlook Express, etc.) require passwords and will save them so you don’t have to enter them every time. Of course, if you entered them last six months ago, you probably do not remember them now. There are a number of programs that will reveal these [...]
Microsoft’s ClearType can make text on LCD screens and some CRT monitors much more readable. However, if you use ClearType and design documents or web pages that others will have to read, you often need to see what the text, especially small text, will look like without ClearType — as what looks great on your [...]