I went to install the translation Google Gadget on my site this morning and was accosted, or at the very least, very surprised by the number of Adult (porn) images and gadgets that were on the Google Gadget homepage. I simply went to the Google Gadget homepage and clicked on the Find Gadgets for your Webpage link. The next page lists a number of gadgets that you could add to … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2009
RegFromApp – List Registry Changes
RegFromApp is a freeware utility from NirSoft that allows you monitor writes to the Registry from a specific process. This is more fine-grain than SysInternals RegMon making it a great complement, but not a replacement. You could use RegFromApp to monitor an installation process or an executable that you're launching for the first time. I anticipate this will greatly help with … [Read more...]
Xobni – More pizazz and convenience in Outlook
Xobni ('inbox' backwards) is an extension for Outlook that looks good and offers a lot of real conveniences that can make the e-mail jungle a little more manageable. Along with the 'makes Outlook/e-mail better' features, it also offers some statistics and an interesting analysis on e-mail habits. Xobni, as a sidebar in Outlook, brings a wide-variety of services with it and … [Read more...]
URLMetrix – Site stats in one place
I've previously covered the Popuri.us site along with a handful of other webmaster tools which performs a look up of a particular site across a wide variety of tools. While Popuri.us is nice, I found it to be a little inaccurate and slow. Since then, I've found a replacement for Popuri.us that seems to be quite a bit improved while still providing the same basic service with … [Read more...]
So what are these thumbs.db files anyway?
Have you been looking through folders of images or videos and ever noticed the Thumbs.db file seems to be in every folder? Have you been annoyed by the fact that when you copy a file you get prompted that the Thumbs.db file is read-only or that it already exists? If you're using Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, you've probably noticed this before. Even if you've received … [Read more...]