The blog is iPhone friendly
blog.billauer.com is now iPhone friendly. I added the WPtouch iPhone Theme to wordpress and walla! When you surf to the site from an iPhone/Android phone you get a slick iPhone app like interface.
Google Wave
I am now waiting for an invite to Google Wave. I have several potential invites in the works but none have panned out yet.
As soon as I get the invite I will write up a review. My buddy Hillel has already written up an article about his “Eight Google Wave Annoyances“, but I am not letting that influence my judgment. Now I just have to wait.
I hate waiting.
UPDATE: Ugh - I just found out it can take a week from the time I am invited until the invite shows up in my inbox.
Did I mention I hate waiting.
Eight Google Wave Annoyances
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Thanks Renamer
I hate renaming files in windows. After shooting 200 pictures on vacation with my family I end up with a folder that has 200 files names IMG_0103.jpg. What I want to do is a rename so something a little more meaningful – Something like Vacation_to_India_2008_Pic_0103.jpg. Doing this in Windows can be a pain. Renamer is a free tool that solves this issue. Renamer allows to change case, modify names, and remove or replace strings in file names.
Renamer
Space
You purchase the 500 GB 1 Terabyte drive for your computer figuring you could never fill it up. That much space should last a long long time. Then after a few months you realize you only have 100 GB left. What happened to all that space??? So you start to check all you folders and try to find what is taking up all that space. It is a long and tedious process. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an easier way to find all those large files and directories? There is. SpaceMonger.
SpaceMonger
codecs
I get this question a lot:
“I got this .mkv (or insert other format here) video file and it won’t play on my machine. It says I don’t have the right codec. What do i do?”
First let me address what a codec is. A codec is an algorithm for compress and decompressing videos. If your computer does not have the algorithm it will not be able to decompress the video and you will not be able to watch the file.
So how do you get the codecs you need? The best option is to download a codec pack. A codec pack is a group of codecs .. you guessed it.. packed together. The one I like to use is the k-lite codec pack.
K-lite codec pack
Filezilla
Filezilla is a great free and open source FTP client. It beats the pants off of windows explorer. I have been using it for ages and enjoy it – It is user friendly and feature rich. If you need to FTP files look no further.
- Filezilla Main Window
Foxit Reader
Using Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDFs is painful. It is slow and a huge system drain. It also is constantly trying to update a newer and slower version. Foxit Reader is a free alternative for PDF viewing on Windows.
Foxit Reader
WinMerge
Ever need to compare the contents of 2 files? You could use WinDiff. But WinMerge is a far better option.
WinMerge
YourFonts
This is a cool site I read about on Lifehacker called YourFonts. YourFonts is a free website that helps you create your own font.
sample personal font
SuperCopier 2
I hate copying files on a Windows system. The system will start coping a file and if I want to copy another file while the first one is going it does so in parallel slowing down the whole process. If a copy process encounters an error – forget it. The whole copy process dies and you have lost the queue and have no idea where you were up to. SuperCopier 2 fixes these issues in a small easy to use utility.
supercopier