The original Windows explorer undoubtedly lacks many features a lot of us would like to see and provides some that we don’t need at all on the other hand. That’s one of reasons why I mostly use a file manager instead (Frigate3, would recommend as a very good choice even though it’s not 100% stable).

TeraCopy is a nice shell enhancement for Windows replacing the original copy popup with a more advanced version. It integrates itself into the context menu so that you work as usual and don’t need to run additional external applications for the same process. TeraCopy gives you more options to copy or move files, e.g. a pause/resume function, error recovery and an dynamically adjusted buffer.

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Tags: explorer replacement, file copy, teracopy, windows-explorer
Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

This one is for those of you, who have a website and would like to display the contents of a RSS feed on that website. It does not really matter if you want to display your own feeds on a different part of your blog or feeds from other websites.FeedFlash is a nice service that takes feed urls and places them in a nice looking and scrollable widget that can be embedded into websites.

The cool thing is that these widgets are fully customizable, including colors, heading, height and width and so on. I’d say that changing the size of the widget is the most important feature as long as you plan to put it into a sidebar. You provide the address to your feed and the service lets you customize the widget with a preview. After that the code can be copied and added to the code of your website.

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Tags: blog, feedflash, rss feed, rss widget, website, widgets
Categories: Online Services, The Web

I really like the idea of an open and decentralized standard which allows you to sign in to multiple websites without entering your username and password over and over again on every site that requires you to login to vote (digg.com), comment, or participate in other means. There are so many sites where you have to login to use basically the same features that you used on another site just before you visited the new one.

Moreover, if you don’t use a very unique username, most likely you’ll sooner or later find out that your username has already been taken by someone else on a particular website. That forces you to choose another one and remember it or write it down. A good solution for storing such username password combinations for various services is KeePass but it doesn’t resolve the problem of multiple logins. The solution to this might be OpenID.

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Tags: crunchy, imageshack, my open id, open id, openid, openid providers, passwords, technorati, usernames
Categories: Online Services, The Web

Creating “session files” can help you speed up your work and also give you a tiny little bit of rest by preventing you from doing repetitive tasks every day again and again. For example, when you work on some kind of project (webdesign, audio, video, graphics), maybe you often start some sort of programs at once, together, like say |:Paintbrush – Photoshop – ColorPickerTool – ImageViewer:| or maybe |:Audacity – MusicPlayer – FrequencyAnalyzer:| and so on.

Instead of browsing through your system menus and launching applications, or even instead of just clicking shortcuts on desktop or on a launcher application, you can create simple (or complex) scripts that will do the job for you while you sit back and watch. With these “session” scripts you can launch multiple applications at once, from one place by clicking one icon. Sometimes when launching manually, you maybe got used to adding delays between starting resource-intensive applications so that your CPU can handle it better. Session scripts can take care of it for you too, you can define as long delays as you want.There are at least 2 ways of creating such scripts:

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Tags: auto it, autorun, cmdow, easy macro, macros, session files, xstarter
Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows