Windows Anti-Spyware Beta

Microsoft have released an Anit-Spyware program to the Beta world.

I already use SpyBot and Ad-Aware, so my machine is (should be :*)) pretty clean. I'll run a scan later today.


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J-Walk release PUP v6

As an Excel power user, I've been a long-time user of the PUP utilities from John Walkenbach, as well as a purchaser of his excellent books.

He has just released v6 of his tool set.

Highly recommended.

PUP v6 Home Page

Blogger for sale

Check out this auction on e-bay (item 5143179122)

Vancouver based blogger Darren Barefoot is auctioning hs blogging assistance. Cool.


eBay item 5143179122 (Ends Dec-06-04 21:54:30 PST) - Rent a Blogger - Online Marketing and Technology Expert

Forty-five percent of Americans also believe that God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago.

Should I be scared?

These people also believe all the reasons the US used to justify the war in Iraq.

Third of Americans Say Evidence Has Supported Darwin's Evolution Theory

100 Things Every Guy Must Know, courtesy of Maxim

Things I didn't know

- always call tails in a coin flip
- blackjack has the best odds (I knew that one, remember, always split Aces and Eights)
- store woodworking tools in a wooden box to prevent rust (or cover them with a towel to prevent moisture from settling)
- drop a cinamon stick into chili

I'll try the last one - I already make a mean chili, we'll see how it turns out.

MAXIM ONLINE:

Lookout continues to rock!

I had a problem installing the recent version of Lookout. After a posting on the forum, Mike of Lookout Soft (now Microsoft) spent some time with me to figure out what was going on. A week later and with a custom patch installed and now all is well. I discovered that Lookout supports the 'close to' search criteria - that's one that few tools have.

It's amazing how much I missed Lookout, despite having many other search tools (Copernic, Clarity, X1) at my disposal. The tight integration with Outlook makes a big difference.


I have switched to gmail for my personal mail and I'm finding I really like their model of archive + threads with the ability to search.

I may try to do the same thing inside Outlook with Lookout.

At present I archive e-mail by month. I used to use the GTD Add-In, but the last upgrade didn't :*( and the GTD support folks weren't able to make it work at all, not that they tried very hard. (unistall and reinstall is not support in my view).

Maybe I will try just one big archive + Lookout

Lookout email search for Microsoft Outlook - Lookout Software

X1 Beta 5 released

Marc pointed me to the new beta of X1.

X1 instantly searches files & email. For Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Netscape Mail.

I've just loaded it - it reconfirms to me that an interface with multiple panes (X1, Copernic) is far superior to the web-style interfaces (Google, Clarity, FileHand).

More as I continue to play ...

Konfabulator vs DesktopX

I was lucky enough to squeeze into the Konfabulator web site on Monday and snag a download. It is interesting to compare it with DesktopX from StarDock.

A bit of history - I tried the ObjectDesktop from StarDock a year or so ago. While it did what it said it would, I ended up removing it - the benefits just weren't worth the CPU cycles and the odd incompatibility it caused. (This is probably an artifact of the many software packages I load/unload.)

Anyway, I reloaded DesktopX on Monday night as well to do a comparison.

My initial reaction is to lean toward Konfabulator. Why?

- Konfabulator widgets look every so slightly better, but it's hard to explain why
- they are much easier to customize - I'm trying to get DesktopX to display weather for Ottawa with temp in Celcius, and it doesn't seem to take
- I went thorugh the list of DesktopX widgets and didn't see anything there that interested me that wasn't on Konfabulator

I haven't done any CPU checks yet - maybe on the weekend.

I will continue to play with both and keep an open mind.

...Rick

Katie, as photographed by Jacqueline Turpin 

Konfabulator for Windows available Monday November 8th!

that will be a very busy server.

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