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Finally a GOOD free online fax service: Hello Fax

Admin — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:01:57 +0000

Several times a year, I still come across some business or organization that requires their forms be signed and FAXED back (no, they won’t take a scanned doc), and since it’s been years since I’ve owned a fax machine, I just search for some online fax service. In some cases, the free services will include their ads on the actual fax (very unprofessional), but many other times I’ll just pay a couple bucks to buy some credit just to get it over with.

But now, Hellofax has figured out a reasonable freemium model and it’s getting bookmarked.

Print to anywhere using Google Cloud Print

Admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:28:21 +0000

Just installed Google Cloud Print on my PC. Installation was easier than even plugging in a USB printer.

By connecting your printer with the Google Cloud you will be able to print to your printer from any computer or smart phone, regardless of where you are. Just activate the Google Cloud Print connector in Google Chrome and your printer will automatically be available to you from Google Cloud Print enabled web and mobile apps.

Trying out Cyberduck FTP client

Admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:24:42 +0000

Over the years I used FlashFXP, CuteFTP, SmartFTP… most recently FileZilla, and now about to try out Cyberduck (Open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, Google Docs & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac & Windows). Looks promising and available for both Mac and PC.

My new favorite screenshot tool

Admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:54:19 +0000

In just a matter of a couple of weeks, I’ve discovered three different screenshot capturing tools, each one better than the next… and my new favorite is ScreenCatch. A tiny 193KB tool.

Captures the entire screen with a single click and then allows for cropping before uploading the image and hosting it for free.

Easiest way to install apps on a fresh Windows install

Admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:42:34 +0000

Most definitely the easiest way to install all your basic apps after a fresh install of Windows is using Ninite. You simply go to the website, select some popular apps you would install anyways (like Winamp, iTunes, Firefox, Adobe Acrobat Reader, uTorrent, WinRar) and the site checks for the latests version of those apps and then gives you a package to download of all of those apps, and then runs all their default installations disabling all the annoying installation options like ad-ware, toolbars, etc. And done!

Best software you may have not heard of

Admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:18:05 +0000

Great topic over at reddit.com asking “What’s your favorite software that no one has heard of“. I’m discovering and discovering a lot of gems as we speak.

Remobo: Hamachi alternative for the Mac?

Admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:38:04 +0000

When LogMeIn acquired Hamachi, I was hoping that they would release an official Hamachi client for OS X, but unfortunately they didn’t. I was looking for an alternative secure easy-configuration file sharing solution to use between Windows 7 64-bit and OS X Snow Leopard, and for a moment I thought I had found the solution in Remobo. It works on both OS’s and has most of the features Hamachi had, but it’s just not quite like browsing shared folders over VPN.

It’s still a great little app and some might find it useful.

Fixed: View Canon CR2 Raw file thumbnails in Windows 7 64-bit

Admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:32:32 +0000

So apparently Canon hasn’t gotten around to writing a Windows 7 64-bit compatible driver for viewing their digital camera CR2 RAW images as thumbnails in Windows Explorer. Easy fix: these guys at FastPictureViewer have it as a free download here.

CMS/Blogging software packages not needing a database

Admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:53:10 +0000

I run this site on Wordpress but a small project came up where I wanted to research some database-less CMS / blogging alternatives (still need PHP, just no databases to store the content).

After researching this a bit, the two I’ll be trying first are:

GetSimple
SkyBlue

And some others I came across and may try next:

Fixed: Gmail Notifier Won’t Connect

Admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:43:33 +0000

I use Gmail Notifier on my desktop PC so that Gmail handles all mailto: links, but I don’t really care for it as a notifier. But if you do install it and get the error message ”Cannot connect to your mailbox”, it may be because you’ve set your Gmail account to only use https, which the notifier is incompatible. So Google has a Windows registry fix/patch for that. Problem solved.