Category: ‘Software’
2Sep
Today on my troll through the interweb I came across some interesting news. Tomorrow Google are releasing a new browser called Google Chrome. I was quite amazed I had heard nothing about this so far.
There are some screenshots available if you want to have a look. It looks to me like a nice mix between IE and Firefox in terms of style and features offered. I only hope they have proper support for W3 standards.
One thing that did sound interesting though was the fact that they have made a new javascript engine called V8.
We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.
So it will be interesting to see how this develops. Could there be a new competitor in the browser wars?
27Aug
After playing with Ubiquity, and realizing how amazing it could be, I thought I would throw together some simple commands to see how easy it is to develop your own commands. So here they are. After about 30mins I have these three commands:
date - If you’re in an editable text area, inserts today’s date, formatted for the current locale.
time-12 - If you’re in an editable text area, inserts the current time (12 hour format)
time-24 - If you’re in an editable text area, inserts the current time (24 hour format)
If you would like to subscribe to these commands you can do so at: http://www.gilbertpellegrom.co.uk/ubiquity/. I must say I’m very impressed with Ubiquity. I can’t wait to see where this goes.
27Aug
The geniuses over at Mozilla Labs have come with an amazing experiment trying to connect the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.
The overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to:
- Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.)
- Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words, allowing everyone–not just Web developers–to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.)
- Use Trust networks and social constructs to balance security with ease of extensibility.
- Extend the browser functionality easily.
Head over there and watch the video to see how amazing this could be.
25Jul
I have just released the latest version of my small tray email checking app CheckR. There are many new improvements which include GUI changes, speed increases and better support for custom popup skins. To see a full list of changes you can head over to the CheckR page.
As always any comments/suggestions are more than welcome. Enjoy.
Edit: I just realised this is my 200th post! Yay!
21Jul
The other day I found out that Windows had released the Live Mesh Tech Preview. Live Mesh is a file synchronization program that syncs your files across multiple PC’s and your online Live Desktop which has 5GB of space. It will eventually have support for Mobiles and even Macs. Another feature thats bundled in is a remote desktop feature that allows access to connected devices via Internet Explorer. I can see how this might come in handy on the odd occasion as well.
All you need to get Live Mesh is a Windows Live ID. I’m trying it out at the moment but first impressions seem quite positive. I’m aware there are many alternatives to Live Mesh so I’m keen to see what other people think. Have you tried Live Mesh? If so what do you think of it?
16Jul
If, like me, you run uTorrent on a server/pc at home and would like to control uTorrent from anywhere in the world then you need to get yourself the uTorrent Web UI. If, once you have installed this, it doesn’t work for some reason or you would like a nice small app that sits in your tray and lets you control your remote uTorrent from your desktop, then you need to get uTorrentGUI.
I have been writing this app for the last 2 weeks now. It started off as a personal project but it has got to the stage where I deem it “shareable”. So I hope some people might get some use out of it. For more information see the uTorrentGUI page.
As always and comments/suggestions are always welcome. Just post them as a comment below.
7Jul
One day I was thinking “wouldn’t it be cool if my background would change to a random image every so often”. My first thought was to write a small app to do this so as part of my initial research I went for a Google, and what I found was actually stunning. John’s Background Switcher written by John Conners is a great app with a tonne of features. It can do a lot more than just change your background. I wont go into them all here but I’ll leave you the joy of discovering them.
John’s Background Switcher is highly recommended. Check it out.
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5Jul
My small email notification app CheckR is now featured on Softpedia. Will be interesting to see what people think of it. Hopefully be useful to loads of people.
3Jul
Well they did it. The guys at Mozilla will be more than happy as today they heard that they officially set the world record for “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours” at 8,002,530 downloads. It’s an amazing achievement not just for Mozilla but for the community as a whole. If you took part don’t forget to get your certificate.
1Jul
Less than a week after CheckR was released it has it’s first update. There are quite a few changes in this version which include:
- Added skinnable Taskbar Notifier
- Added “Tell Me Again” to context menu
- Added ability to change the checking interval
- Changed notifications so that only when new messages arrive a notification pops up.
I hope some people will use this app and it might prove useful to someone. I use it in work because we are not allowed Digsby. Any comments/suggestions very welcome.
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