Ari’s Blog

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.

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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.

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.

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Ever need to compare the contents of 2 files? You could use WinDiff. But WinMerge is a far better option.

WinMerge

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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

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Lclock is a nice mix of eye-candy and functionality. This utility takes the clock style from Vista and brings it Windows XP. In addition to a nicer looking clock the utility adds a useful calendar- which is FAR better than right clicking on the clock and going to adjust date/time.

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Ok – I have updated the blog!

I have updated the WordPress to the latest version – Which was really easy. If you are thinking of starting a blog I highly recommend WordPress ( http://wordpress.org/)

Also I have added a new post which you can see below! (http://blog.billauer.com/?p=48)

Hopefully I will continue to update the site more frequently!

-Ari

Did you ever get an AVI file that was really great that you wanted to share with your less tech savy cousin? AVI2DVD lets you convert that AVI to a DVD format. AVI2DVD generates files or an ISO image. Just burn the ISO (of course you need a DVD burner) and you can watch the Video on a set top DVD player.

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It has been a really long time since I have written anything. I am hoping to try and post a new item at least once a week. Here is to hoping!

Ok – So there is a better utility out the to manage the caps lock and other keys. It is called KeyTweak (Thanks Alan and Max). KeyTweak gives you a nice GUI and helps you remap any key to any other – Including those odd keys (Like forward and back). After you make your changes you need to reboot and you are good to go.

You can download it at http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/