DropClock is a screensaver in which time falls literally into the water. See the time goes by in slowwwwmotion.

Last Saturday I was showing a friend of mine some of my new mp3’s. He really wanted those, so we tried to ‘backup’ some of those to his computer. After a short search we came up with a freeware program called iDump. It works really fine. A true software recommendation from me (Doesn’t work with the Touch though).

Wondering what’s really going to be hot? Never want to miss a hype or trend? Then you should have this poster in your office

The collected the 300 most influential websites and put them on a map. Do you see Wordpress take a central connection point? Guess what my blog software is, heheh…

Web Trend Map 2008

Since a couple of months I started switching using some new apps. And with pleasure I must say.

Microsoft Windows Live Writer

For writing blogmessages I use MS Windows Live Writer. It can communicate with WordPress which I use as blogging framework. It also works with various other blogsoftware. Recently MS released a new version.

GOM player

Since a couple of months a said goodbye to WinAmp. I used WinAmp since the early days, even when it was not owned by AOL at all. So that must have been 9 to 10 year. The reason was that I discovered a better media player: GOM player.

Some unique functionalities and advantages over WinAmp:
It’s free! No more hassle with codecs. Better fullscreen possibilities (with/without ratio constraints). Can play DVD’s like a breeze. It’s lightweight.

Great News rss reader

A very fast en free RSS reader. See the website for features and screenshots.

I’m currently busy with creating an auto-mounting script for my mp3 files. When it’s completed, I’ll show/explain it to you. Meanwhile when googling for more info about shell programming I discovered some nice tips and tricks. Let me share it with you:

Find out which commands you use most often (a oneliner):

$ history|awk ‘{print $2}’|awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} 

{print $1}’|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10

Find out top 10 directories eating up your disk space:
$ du -cks * | sort -rn | head -10

A nice starter article about shell programming can be found at LinuxFocus.
If you want to do more with the file system, this is a nice FAQ.

Unix productivity tips

It’s an useless addon for Mozilla Firefox, but it will astonish your friends and colleagues: the Tab Effect.

After installing, tab switching will never be the same. When you switch tab your windows is turned like a cubicle. It’s difficult to explain, so see for your self!

Wouldn’t it be nice to have something like this:

You can use this technique for any command line or batch file you want to attach to the Explorer context menu. 

1. Add a key (any name and content appears to work) to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell.
2. Below that add a key “command” and set the text to be whatever command you want executed.  I copied the command line from the .NET 3.0 SDK “CMD Shell” (see registry export listing below), but you could use any command line entry.  The nice thing about the .NET 3.0 cmd shell is that it sets the environment so you can access svcutil.exe and other 3.0 specific utilities.

Registry export listing:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Command Prompt]
@=”.NET 3.0 Command Prompt”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Command Prompt\command]
@=”C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe /E:ON /V:ON /T:0E /K \”C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\\Windows\\v6.0\\Bin\\SetEnv.Cmd\”"

BTW:  If you’re running Vista then you’re in luck, it’s built-in! 

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