Category: Utilities

Google Docs - Share document as a Form

Posted on 3:12pm 2/07/2008 by Bruno Silva in Freeware, Utilities, Web

New great service available!

Create a spreadsheet, define some fields in your table and then share this spreadsheet as a form that users can fill out. When they do that, they add a line to your spreadsheet. It is pretty simple to setup.

Google Docs - Form

More information on the Official Google Docs Blog.

IExpress Wizard

Posted on 8:15pm 1/30/2008 by Bruno Silva in Software, Utilities, Windows

Today I found about IExpress Wizard utility. It is built-in in Windows and allows to create self-extracting/installing packages.

iExpress Wizard

I won’t write down a tutorial. Since I learned how to use it by running it just one time, it is pretty easy. Choose your package name, include a prompt before install (if you want to), choose files, include a license agreement file (if wanted), choose a command to run after the extraction and enable a restart request if needed. A finished message can be customized.

To open the program, go to Start-Run and enter iexpress

Really useful to distribute small software packages and applications add-ons, and … well just use your imagination.

Source: Alfred’s Tech Blog

System Explorer

Posted on 8:59pm 1/03/2008 by Bruno Silva in Freeware, Software, Utilities

A simple application (that doesn’t require installation). Maybe it is old news, but I have only found out about this software today. Pretty nice because it gathers some (sometimes) useful information. The features list is “copy-pasted” from the website.

Features:

  • Detailed informations about Processes, Startups, Explorer, IE Addons, Uninstallers, Windows, Services, Drivers, Connections and Opened Files
  • Action History for monitoring processes activities
  • Making of Registry & Files snapshots for easy comparing of system changes. Result of comparation is displayed in tree view and text list. Can be used for analysation of product installers/uninstallers (like Total Uninstall)
  • Performance graphs for monitoring usage of system resources in time
  • Easy check of suspicious files via VirusTotal
  • Easy search details about file/process via online databases
  • Easy access to System Utilities

Download here

Pocket Contact Manager

Posted on 5:59pm 12/31/2007 by Bruno Silva in Freeware, Mobility, Software, Utilities
PocketCM I’ve been looking at this application evolution since more that six months. It runs on Windows Mobile, it is freeware and brings to the tips of your fingers a little bit of the iPhone user-experience.It is a contact manager that replaces the default one and allows you to scroll your contacts with your finger.It allows sending SMS, creating a favorites list and adding pictures to your contacts.You can set different themes. My favorite is the black one in the side picture. Download it here.

Still based on the ideal of using your PDA only with your fingers you also can find a keyboard in this website. Download it here.

Nowadays I don’t use this software. I’m in a minimalistic phase as a windows mobile user. Only the essentials to have it working. (Qtek S200 performance made me took this decision).

Safe mail

Posted on 9:35pm 12/29/2007 by Bruno Silva in Utilities, Web

To avoid spam a technique which consists on displaying e-mails as images instead of plain text is increasing each day. Plain text can more easily discovered by spammers. Because today I wanted to add an e-mail to this website I search for a website where I could generate an e-mail image.

I’ve found this nice one http://safemail.justlikeed.net. You can choose font and color. You can easily do this in paint for example. But this service stores your e-mail image, so you can use it in blogs or forums just by referring it.

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