The traceroute command lists the servers – which are also called hops – that the connection uses to reach the destination. There is basically never a direct connection to a regular website, it will always use a number of servers before it reaches the destination. Windows users can use the tracert destination command to display [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Jan 4th, 2009
- Comments: 7
Keep your New Years’ resolutions with Joe’s Goals (and do other stuff)
An app I’ve been using on and off for a while is Joe’s Goals, which is a goal tracking application designed to motivate you and help you visualize and accomplish your goals. You can create a list of goals like “Drink at least 0.5L of water instead of Coke”, “Write at least 2 posts a [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Jan 1st, 2009
- Comments: 2
Time tracking with Klok gets better and better
Martin showed you a nifty time tracking app for Adobe Air called Klok in a previous post, and now I’m here to tell you more and to show you the changes and improvements that are making Klok better every day. First of all, head on over to the Klok website and grab a copy of [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 1st, 2009
- Comments: 3
Collaborate in Real Time with Gobby
If you do any collaborative work you know how difficult some collaboration tools can be. With both MS Office and OpenOffice you can collaborate with notes and track changes. But what about collaborating in real time? What if you are wanting to quickly collaborate on a simple text document with multiple editors? Fortunately there is [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Dec 29th, 2008
- Comments: 7
Abiword: A Lean Word-processing Machine
I like my tools to be efficient. Part of efficiency is opening quickly, not sucking up all of my systems’ resources, and saving in various formats. When considering office needs one of the first tools that pops into my mind is word processing. Naturally the masses will first turn to either MS Office or OpenOffice. [...]
Windows XP Aero
One of the most talked design changes – or additions – in Windows Vista is Windows Aero. Microsoft calls it a more dynamic user-interface system compared to the basic interface system known from Windows XP. Windows Aero is actually a set of interface enhancements in Windows Vista. One of these is called Windows Aero Glass. [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Dec 25th, 2008
- Comments: 2
Balance your checkbook with Clearcheckbook
I have to confess I am rather into money management apps, although I never actually got into any of them, except for one of the best, Clearcheckbook. Let me state right from the beginning that this is not an automated service, so it won’t pull stuff from your bank account. The reason I found it [...]
