ReNamer is a very powerful and flexible file renaming tool, which offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences, changing file extensions, etc. For advanced users, there is a PascalScript rule, which let users program their very own renaming rule. Program … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2008
Dokuwiki – A wiki back-end for whatever you need
Part of a series where I'll be investigating different infrastructures to support a small, but rapidly growing Knowledge Base, Dokuwiki has certainly been a breeze to setup and configure. Featuring a "typical" wiki front-end and simplistic "no-need" back-end, Dokuwiki is a pretty complete package. It lets you do almost everything that you would want to do with your wiki with … [Read more...]
USB Drive Letter Manager
My Computer can get to be a little over-crowded very easily. When you plug-in a jump drive Windows will automatically assign that drive a letter somewhere between D and H. Well, let's say you have a: Floppy Drive (A) Hard drive (C) CD-Burner (D) DVD-Burner (E) Then you also have some mapped drives to server shares: Group files (G) Home directory (H) That pretty much leaves F: … [Read more...]
What I’m looking for in a Knowledge Base
I am looking for a Knowledge Base infrastructure for our IT department for a few reasons. 1.) Our documentation is all over the place: FAQs, forums, documents on a server share, this blog, and people's brains. I'd really like to unify it in one location. 2.) FAQs are going the way of the past. They only highlight the frequently asked questions. We all know there are plenty … [Read more...]
Firefox3 RC1 released
RC1 for Firefox 3 was just released. I figured at this point it was worth giving a shot. I'm usually not all about jumping into the Beta scene because it's always a cost-benefit analysis of new features versus stability. RC1 is stable but a few of my add-ons don't work yet (Foxmarks and TabMixPlus are the big ones). Overall, I have to really say that this is a worthwhile … [Read more...]