Is your system tray too crowded with icons? If yes, then you can save some space by moving the clock from the system tray on the right to the start button. Why do you need to have the word “start” on the start button anyway? Put this space to better use by making it to display the system time using a small utility called StartClock.
Unfortunately, this program works with only Windows XP and only if it is using one of the three default themes plus the classic look. Any skinning application like custom themes or WindowBlinds will render this program useless. Worse, the developer has stopped working on the program but he has left the source code for anybody who might want to continue it. It’s sad that it works only with the default themes. Otherwise, it was a pretty useful tool.
Posted by PaulpBaker on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Firefox 3.0 is barely out of the gate, but already Mozilla is moving toward the future with the first alpha release of Firefox 3.1. The final release of 3.1 is scheduled for the end of 2008 with the usual series of alpha and beta releases in the coming months.
The first 3.1 alpha (code-named Shiretoko) already packs some impressive new features like the new visual tab switcher,
which offers previews of pages, and changes the sorting order based on
which tab was most recently open. In essence it mimics the behavior of
cmd-tab application switchers on most OSes. The visual eye candy is
quite nice, but the real benefit is the dynamic ordering, which makes
it much easier to quickly jump between recently viewed tabs.
Also new in alpha 1 is the wildcard searching capabilities we mentioned earlier.
Firefox 3.1 will allow you to quickly restrict your “awesome bar”
searches using customizable wildcard characters. For instance typing an
asterisk limits results to your bookmarks and typing a pound sign
limits results to page titles (rather than titles and URLs).
The Gecko rendering engine, which powers Firefox under the hood,
also has support for some new CSS options like text-shadow, box-shadow,
border images and the HTML5 Canvas text API. The first three are
already available in some other browsers like Safari, but with Firefox
on-board as well, web designers will no doubt feel more comfortable
using those elements in their designs.
The HTML 5 canvas support is a bit more experimental (the W3C spec
is still in the draft stages), but Mozilla has rolled it in anyway. If
you want get really bleeding edge, the latest Firefox nightly builds
also include support for audio and video tags.
Like the Canvas element, the and
HTML 5 elements are still in the draft stages, but the idea is to
easily embed media without proprietary plugins (like Quicktime, Windows
Media, etc). Technically both tags are codec-neutral, but Mozilla has
bundled the Ogg Theora and Vorbis codecs giving you the option to
deliver audio and video in an open format.
Keep in mind though that the and aren’t part of alpha 1. For those elements you’ll need to go to the nightly builds.
So far, Firefox 3.1 is looking like it will be a very impressive
release, building on and refining many of the best features in 3.0, as
well as adding some important new ones. If you’d like to test it out,
head over to the download page, but bear in mind that, as this is an alpha, the usual warnings apply and most of your extensions will probably be disabled.
When you don’t want to depend solely on the official App Store to get
your iPhone 2.0 applications, you want to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod
touch—and less than two weeks after the iPhone 2.0 launch, it’s easier
than ever to do with your new device. The hard-working iPhone Dev Team
released the jailbreak utility PwnageTool version 2.0.1 this weekend,
and while it’s not as one-step as ZiPhone, it still offers an easy GUI
interface for the job. Let’s take a look at the step by step for
jailbreaking your iPhone 2.0 device with PwnageTool.
It seems like everybody uses the free PuTTY client for accessing SSH from Windows, but the lack of a tabbed interface has kept me using the commercial SecureCRT application for years… until now.
With the PuTTY Connection Manager you can not only use tabs, but also wrap PuTTY in a slick interface. The underlying client is still the same putty.exe that you are used to… in fact the application doesn’t even come bundled with it.
The first time you launch the application you’ll be asked to enter the location to your copy of PuTTY.
I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.
We’ve prepared a brief video tour of 2.6, if you have 3 minutes and 29 seconds to spare, it’s worth a watch:
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