Month: July 2005

Renaming digital photos with their date and timestamp

If you own a digital camera, you're probably generating lots of photos and videos with uninformative filenames like "IMG\_0002.JPG" and "MVI\_0003.AVI". It's not easy to view these files chronologically, especially if you mix...

Gadgets

Interesting keyboard

Wow, check this out. Each key is its own mini-display: Art.Lebedev Studio | Optimus Keyboard

Productivity

Driven to distraction by technology

I just read a fascinating article on how addiction to technology and interruptions sap productivity. A few interesting quotes: "The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message...

Windows

Useful Windows program: OpenExpert

This nice Windows freeware makes it easier to open a document in an app other than the default. Great if you use multiple browsers, image editing program, text editors, etc... http://www.baxbex.com/openexpert.html On the Mac, I...

MacProductivity

Lots of great Quicksilver tips

For you Mac people who don't know what Quicksilver is or have it and don't know what to do with it besides launch apps, check out lots of great stuff on this app from Merlin Mann of 43folders: Links...

FirefoxThunderbird

Firefox/Thunderbird 1.0.6

Restores API compatibility for extensions and web applications that did not work in 1.0.5. http://www.mozilla.org/

Firefox

GreaseMonkey security vulnerability

Bummer. If you have GreaseMonkey for Firefox installed, you might want to uninstall it or upgrade to 0.3.5 immediately... Link GreaseMonkey GreaseMonkey vulnerability...