Tag: ZUKERLIST

I often write and translate in an office environment, which can be distracting. Sometimes people talk around me or work together on something, and sometimes noise from outside breaks my concentration. Music is one possible solution; but when working with words, music with lyrics can be an even bigger distraction. So I can try putting on some instrumental music; while that can be nice, it still ...

DokuWiki is one of those "I can't believe we've never covered it!" tools. It's not new; it's not cutting-edge. It's solid, and tested, and it's been around for years, and it is one of the best Wiki systems on the planet, in my opinion. DokuWiki is great for content sites where you have one editor and the rest of the world just reads the wiki; it's also great for collaborative wikis, and there was ...

CoreTemp is one application that falls into the "I can't believe we've never covered it" category. It's a tiny, free and portable CPU temperature monitor. It's a single executable weighing in at around 500KB, and it's my go-to whenever I suspect my CPU is starting to overheat. You can download either a 32-bit or 64-bit version. The whole thing is very minimalistic. It doesn't have a temperature ...

I have a fairly serious backup fetish. I don't take data loss lightly, and I do everything I can to prevent it from happening to me. At the moment I am using four different backup strategies and services to safeguard my files -- online storage using several different services and local backup. In the "local backup" front, Oops!Backup is my chosen solution. Simply put, it is Time Machine for ...

I covered We Are Hunted about a month ago, but they've just undergone a fairly major overhaul. In a nutshell, We Are Hunted trawls Twitter, Facebook, P2P networks, and a whole bunch of other sources in order to figure out what music is hot and interesting right now. It looks nice -- and it works. And now, they've added a new music discovery option, which feels just as slick as the rest of the ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/06/09/sculptris-is-insanely-cool-free-3d-modeling-software/'; Sculptris is, without question, the coolest thing I have seen all day. What was supposed to be a short spin became an hour of prodding and playing around with every tool of this incredible creation. In simple terms, it's sculpting software. It's free, and it's accessible. I once ...

Screenpresso, my favorite free utility for taking screenshots, has just updated to version 1.1. The most notable change in this version is that Screenpresso can now "clean" transparent title bars in screenshots; this means that even if you take a screenshot of a window in front of another window, it would still come out crispy-clean. This was one of the major features which "Goliath" Snagit had ...

Okay, let me get this out of the way first: Pomplamoose are awesome!!! I'm a huge fan, so I was overjoyed when Jack and Nataly agreed to grant me an exclusive 15-minute interview, chock full of nerdy goodness and hard-core technical information on how they create their music. In case you don't know them, you should really go watch their YouTube channel. They're a musical duo, and they are getting ...

(This is another "Classics" post, so to those of you who wish to make snarky comments like "oh wow, ever heard of Dilbert.com?" -- relax, I know you're super-cool and that you've already known the site for ages. I'm so proud of you!) And for the rest of the world: A Softer World is one of the best online "comics" I know. It's always the same, and always different; it's always three low-fidelity ...

I know, I know, dictionaries are exciting. I'm sure you share my enthusiasm for the subject, right? Okay, so now that I've got you all riveted, I can tell you that Oxford press is launching an all new dictionary website, and it actually looks great. Lots of online services try to present a "modern dictionary" in a sort of cool mash-up way (Wordnik, I'm looking at you), but the result is usually ...

If you write HTML for a living, and you don't know Zen Coding yet, you are missing out big time. This is basically the coolest thing I've seen all week. I have been using it for a few days now; at first it seemed kind of gimmicky and I wasn't sure I could grasp the syntax, but today I really got to explore it, and woah is it awesome. Okay, I'll stop tripping over myself with excitement over here ...

FollowUpThen, one of my favorite productivity tools, has been updated this morning with some new goodies! The most useful new feature (for me, at least) is that I can now see any pending follow-ups by sending a blank email to pending@followupthen.com, and I can also cancel them right from the email itself (as you can see above). They also added a couple of new scheduling formats, such as day of ...

I have a thing for full-screen editors. I also have a thing for Markdown syntax. I wanted to start writing some of my texts using Markdown in a text editor. Amazingly enough, I was not able to find a Win32 command-line implementation of Markdown. Well, WriteMonkey saved the day. That's just one of the features of this utterly incredible full-screen editor. It's got everything I need for writing, ...

I can't believe we've never covered ffffound.com before. This website is one of my favorite resources for inspiration, ever. On paper, it's an invite-only image bookmarking service. Only, unlike most other "invite only" services, it's not using that label as a PR shtick; it really is exclusive, and that works very well. The images bookmarked are actually interesting, and there is no spam at ...

I was recently playing around with Windows Gadgets, trying to find a decent clock gadget for multiple timezones. Selection was pretty grim, and I ended up settling for an okay-looking gadget, just because I was sick and tired of searching. Then, I was reminded of TimeLeft; it's a true classic. It's one of those modest utilities that has been around pretty much forever (check out the Windows XP ...