Entries Tagged as ‘Softwares Reviews’

February 20, 2007

JProbe Suite

We are trying to get JProbe working on our J2EE App. It seems like a very useful tool set. I am excited to find out what it can do for our application. Basically, I want to find out how good is our code? I will post more information when I have little more grasp over [...]

August 14, 2006

Windows Live Writer - Offline Blog Editor from Microsoft

Microsoft has jumped into Offline Blog Editor market at last with Windows Live Writer(Beta). So far it looks like a good editor overall with some bugs. (Beta remember). This has some unique features if improved and positioned correctly, has potential of becoming a good editor in the space. It is so much like BlogJet.
I [...]

August 12, 2006

A-PDF Split - PDF File spliter Review

Recently, I have started to teach ASP.NET to group of College students. I had a huge file from ASP.NET certification 70–315 Amit Kalani. I wanted to give the students this book as a reference so they can go through the material on their own. But as most college students have habit of scanning through all [...]

August 10, 2006

Remeber The Milk: API’s More and Ta-Da Lists

Remember The Milk

If you have been reading my blog, you would already know that I have been using Remember the Milk as my To-do list application. So far I have been pretty impressed with RTM overall as a useful application. I can’t say enough good things about this application.
Features Liked Most:

Broad range of key [...]

August 10, 2006

LifeHacker Survey: Desktop Blog Editor Comparision

LifeHacker has done a survey on Different Desktop Blog Editors. Following is the outcome of the surveys. Interesting findings.
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Desktop blog editor comparison
Our recent blog editor poll revealed just how many editors there are out there.
Though the majority of people use an online editor, the most voted desktop editors were the Performancing for Firefox [...]

August 9, 2006

Topix.net - Great News WebSite you didin’t know about

TechCrunch has featured a news site called topix.net. After techcrunch review of topix.net I went to the site to review the site. Great feature with this site is it gives you local news aggregated from your local news sources. In last couple of days of using this, I am impressed with this. I am changing from [...]

July 27, 2006

Remember The Milk - To Do list

I have started using remember the milk as my to do list application. So far I have been really impressed with Remember The Milk. You can use this system as a Getting Things Done Tools easily with some configuration. As I have previously stated in post, I have been reading GTD by David Allen. So [...]

July 26, 2006

PortableApps.com - Great Resource for Everyone

In last couple of months, I have come across mulitple mentions of PortableApps.com on blogosphere. As name says it is a collection of all the apps you can directly run without ever need of installation. You can carry around some useful apps on USB drive and you get the goodness of just about any apps [...]

July 26, 2006

Recover Deleted Files with Restoration.

Once in a while every can use the goodness that Restroration provides. It can even find the files which are delete sometime back. Give this a shot and I am sure you will find it useful. I undeleted a 4 Gigs of data with this over the weekend.Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide
Accidentally [...]

July 7, 2006

Logging In Home PC Remotely

If you use your desktop/laptop extensively, You know that you have put a lot of time and effort in getting the working environment (Applications. Settings, Desktop shortcuts etc) up and running on that machine.
I have firewall enabled on machine, on network and on router. I have put some time in creating a secure zone [...]

July 4, 2006

FeedDemon Rocks !

After becoming aware of Blogs and RSS, I have used multiple RSS Aggregators/Rss Readers. So far I have used Rss Bandit, FeedDemon, SharpReader, GreatNews for desktop RSS applications. For web-based application goes, I have used newsgator, bloglines, google reader(on/off).
I have been liking FeedDemon more than anything else. FeedDemon syncronizes my feeds’s read/unread status acorss the [...]

June 30, 2006

Foxit Reader - Acrobat Replacement

Couple of months back, I was preparing of Certification exam. I was using Adobe Acrobat reader to go through E-Book I had on the topics. At one point, I had 3 EBooks opened in Adobe reader. It was taking around 100 MB memory and 80% CPU god knows why.
At that point, I started looking [...]

June 29, 2006

FireFox Extensions: 2 Great Extension to ease your pain for installing multiple extensions

As you might have know that I have been using FireFox as my primary browser since it came out. I have all good things to say about FireFox and trust me I am not alone. So by any chance you are one of the people who are clinging to IE for some reason, switch to [...]

June 24, 2006

Skype Setup

This post is specifically written for my sister. We wanted to take advantage of Skype calling and its superb call quality.
Let’s go through setup step by step.

You need to download skype if you don’t already have it. Go to http://skype.com/download/ page. You will see download now button. This will take you to next page where you [...]

June 21, 2006

AxCrypt - Great File Encryption Utility

AxCrypt is free and easy to use open source strong file encryption for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP, integrated with Windows Explorer. Encrypt, compress, decrypt, wipe, view and edit with a few mouse clicks. Cryptographic primitives are AES-128 and SHA-1. Encrypted files have a “.axx” extension added to their names.
 
I use this frequently on all of my financial [...]

June 21, 2006

Windows Live Search

I was evaluating www.live.com to get a feel for new stuff coming from Microsoft. I have to say, I am pretty impressed with the interface for live.com homepage and live search. Interface is powered by AJAX. Sometimes it is bit slow.
One particular feature I like is inline search for a website. If you like [...]

June 16, 2006

WinKey - Start Run Replacements

WinKey – I heard about this Start run replacement from Scott Hanselman. This is a great little tool to get your favorite application mapped to windows key short cuts. (Some old keyboard doesn’t have windows keys – Sorry You guys – I will try to find out some other way for you. If you need it [...]

June 15, 2006

Google Gadget - “To Do” List

Reason I tried out:
I have upgraded to latest version of Google Desktop Search. One of the reason I upgraded that I wanted to try out Google Gadgets. Google Calendar, To Do List are some of the google gadget attracted me since I use google calendar extensively. Using the calendar directly from my desktop was making me drool. [...]

June 14, 2006

BlogJet and Flickr - Great combo for Blogging

As you guys know I have just started blogging. Before I started blogging I was on hunt for tools which will help me make my blogging fun. I was looking into some offline blogging tools to work with WordPress. After several software tries, I tried BlogJet. This little software is pretty good. It works the [...]

June 14, 2006

Windows Vista Beta 2 Torrents !! huh !!

Couple of days back, Microsoft released Windows Vista (3.4 GB download – wow what is in there ?). Simple Http download or FTP download has got all microsoft server strained. Microsoft even suggest to use DVD mail option rather than downloading.
Why Microsoft is avoiding best distribution protocol for huge files? You guessed it BitTorrent. [...]