Tag: Computing

Synergy is an Amazing Thing

Alright, I am so excited right now that I don’t even know how I can put it into words. As many of you know, I have a desktop PC and a PowerBook. My main problem is that I really like my Mac, but I hate having to switch the keyboard and mouse over to it when I want to sit at my desk and work. Well, what I have found on the internets is just amazing!

Synergy

Yes, it deserves it’s own freaking line. This program is amazing. I am currently typing with the keyboard hooked into my PC… but I am blogging this on my Mac. Yeah, this is rad. It shares the connection of my keyboard and mouse over TCP/IP so I am sharing it wirelessly to my Mac. How cool is that? No more need to unplug and plug it back in. I can just start Synergy and do my stuff.

This works on Linux, Windows XP, and OS X. So, with it you can mix and match if you wish. Now, this works nice if you have the monitors for all systems. In my case I just use the laptop screen. But, even so, you could be creative in how you do this.

Gosh, I’m so excited right now. If you have a laptop/desktop combo or whatever, this is a great program to try out. Oh yeah, if you add an open file share between the two computers you’re gravy. In any case, check it out if you think this could benefit you. It sure blew me away.

Oh Flickr

Well, ever since flickr went online I was pretty intrigued on its use. So, I signed up for a free account. Well, this is where the addiction began.

Since my free account, I have purchased a pro account which allows me unlimited viewing bandwidth, 1GB upload per month, unlimited photosets, and unlimited pages viewable in my photostream. I’m pretty addicted to it because of the tagging aspect of it. Plus, the community part of it is pretty rad too. I kind of wish that the limit on free accounts wasn’t so low, as to facilitate more group photosets, but I still love the service.

I’ve updated the gallery link in the navigation to point towards my flickr photo page since I’ve been putting just about everything from the past year or so on it. Now, one of my reasons to move from my site to flickr was that I could upload a lot of pics and not have to worry about the space. Well, that is cool and all, but then my host has to all go out and triple my disk space and bandwidth for free. Thus, kind of making it a moot point. Right? Well, I don’t know. I’ve uploaded about 700MB of images so far. So, I’m still sticking with flickr for the time being. That and I paid for it!

So, if you’re curious just sign up for a free account and check it out. I like it alot and I’m uploading images right as we speak. Yeah, it is pretty addicting. It makes me want to take more photos. If you have questions for me about what I like and dislike about it, leave a comment and I’ll let you know.

Thunderbird Message Filters

I’ve been a big fan of the Mozilla products for quite some time now. I like how they are independent, lightweight, and easy to use. I really do love the Microsoft line of products as well, but I have no real compelling reason to use them. I love Office and cannot live without it. But I’ve ditched IE a long time ago and Outlook was ditched after I got my Mac. This is because I realized how much easier it was to move my calendar from my Mac (using iCal) to Outlook as opposed to the other way around. Continue reading “Thunderbird Message Filters”