Oct
8
Written by:
xram net
10/8/2009 5:14 AM
I’ve been playing with RocketDock for two weeks now, and even with the stacks plugin, it just wasn’t cutting it. I don’t know what it is about docks, but I can’t seem to get used to them. The concept is fantastic, but after living with ctrl-alt shortcuts since Windows 3, the start menu paradigm since 95, and especially since Vista’s start menu search debuted, getting used to such a mouse-centric control just doesn’t click in my brain. Oh well—there are many other cool programs to play with. Like…
Synergy+ (and the original Synergy). I’ve started to use my laptop as the left screen in a 3-monitor setup, and it’s money. Being able to control everything via one keyboard and mouse is a great way to stop wasting time going from one machine to the other. The only problem so far is the mouse intermittently forgetting to come back, but swapping out my old switch for a gig-e switch helped immensely.
Speaking of Newegg, CamelCamelCamel (sounds like a Balmerism!) now has a Firefox plugin that automagically gives you a price history graph for Amazon, Newegg, and some other stores. Very cool. Almost as cool as…
Personas! This nifty plugin makes changing Firefox skins as easy as it should have been a long time ago. With Chrome getting into the skinning game, it’s about time I can change the look of Firefox without needing to restart. It reminds me of the old Winamp skins, and I especially love the ability to preview a new persona via mouseover. Great implementation, Mozilla! I found this via a new blog I’m reading, FireFoxFacts.com. Which I’m reading using…
Brief! This is the first RSS reader I’ve found that works with Firefox’s built-in Live Bookmarks and displays the posts the way I’d like to see them. I guess I have no excuse now for not staying up to date on my friends’ blogs. I might hate checking twitter and facebook updates, but I love reading blogs. Something about people putting actual time into communicating…
And, ASP.NET 4.0 is going to be great. I’m already looking forward to “clean client-side ‘id’ names (no more ctrl_ mangled names – ASP.NET 4 gives you complete control over the client id), and CSS based rendering instead of table based rendering for the built-in server controls.” What? Maybe this also means no more random “Microsoft-knows-best” CSS to override either…
The best part about all of these programs? You guess it: FREE. Enjoy!