Several posts have made the round in the last weeks that explained how a specific webmail service could be selected as the default client when the user would click on a mailto link on a website. One article that can be seen as an example would be my How To Make Gmail The Default Mail [...]
Do You Want A Watch That Catches Attention?
Tokyoflash is a well known Japanese company that is producing lots of “I need to read the manual to read the time” watches on their website which surprisingly – for a Japanese company – offers an English section for its international visitors. The prices for the watches start by roughly 8900 Yen which is about [...]
Create Mobile Phone Wallpapers
I really cannot understand people who buy mobile phone ringtones, wallpapers and other stuff for their mobile phones. It’s very expensive in my opinion and the only advantage that users get over creating their own is that it is more comfortable. It is however rather easy to create your own and it does not really [...]
Output Files And Folders To A Text Document
Disk Index provides a visual interface for the Dos dir command that can output files and folders of a system partition and drive. As we all know the Dos command dir /s > dir.txt creates an output of all files and folders originating from the directory the command was issued. The file dir.txt contains information [...]
Video Thumbnails Maker
Video Thumbnails Maker is a sophisticated tool to create thumbnails of videos. It supports a wide range of video formats including but not limited to the popular avi, wmv, mpg, rm, rmvb, flv and mov but also exotic formats like vob, 3gp and mkv. The only requirement is that an appropriate codec is installed on [...]
Mount Zip To Virtual Folders
Zip files usually have to be unpacked before the contents can be accessed. This is especially true for installation packages that come as a zip file. Executing the setup from within the zip file could lead to problems if other files contained in the package are required for the setup to execute properly. Pismo File [...]
Bad Choice: Giving The User No Choice
Experienced users love choice. I’m talking about the choice to turn on or off certain features that come with a product. It does not really matter if we are talking about software or hardware, choice can become important almost everywhere. Most companies do not seem to think that giving the user choice is a wise [...]
Vista Flickr Uploader
Flickr is already offering an official tool to upload images to the image hoster. The software is supporting several operating systems and another tool made by a third party has to add features that the official uploader is not supporting to have any chance to being recognized at all. Vista Flickr Uploader is a specifically [...]
Free Avanquest Connection Manager
Business users who use their notebook to connect to the Internet and a network from different locations know about the problems, difficulties and configuration issues that can arise. It often happens at inappropriate moments and even when connection at locations that have been used in the past to connect to the network or Internet. Problems [...]