CFCS Presentation 7/17/2011 ----------------- Cool topics for enhanced productivity, better Windows skills, and fun! . ================================================== INTERNET ------------------ Internet clipboard - Cl1p.net is an Internet clipboard. - Create a clipboard with the name of your choice. http://cl1p.net - ( Note that it's a "1" not an "i". ) ------------------- Giveaway of the Day - Offers you free software every day. - Email describes the day's offering. - You can visit the site and see other's comments. - You can visit the author's site to know more about the product being offered. - No obligation, get the software you prefer, ;leave the others alone. - Software values range from under $20 to $99 and sometimes more. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ --------- PDRHealth - Physician's Desk Reference is the guide that doctors use for understanding medications, side effects, dosages, as well as drug and food interactions. - Rather than spend $75 to $100 for the PDR, you can access its information online, free. - PDRhealth is a site from the PDR publishers, providing information about prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, herbals and supplements. - It also offers information about diseases and conditions, clinical trials, and interactive tools to help you evaluate treatments. http://www.pdrhealth.com Source: A friend of Stan Wallner. . ================================================== UTILITIES --------------------------- Cool launcher for your apps - Flow is a cool, extensible application launcher. - It uses a keyboard layout that lets you map an application to any key you choose. - You press Alt-Q and an image of the keyboard appears on your screen. - Tap the key you want and the application launches. - You can have as many keyboard layouts as you want. http://www.theflowsolution.com/ ----------------------------------------- Turn off your notebook LCD with one click - Shut off your notebook's screen at will. - Click an icon and your screen will go black. - Bring the screen back by moving the mouse or pressing any key on the keyboard. - Get privacy when someone walks up behind you. - Listen to audio without being distracted by items on the screen. - TIP: Set a shortcut key and activate it with just a keystroke. http://www.redmondpie.com/turn-off-your-notebook-lcd-with-one-click/ ------------------------------------- UBitMenu: Keep your Office 2003 menus - Restores MSOffice 2003 menus to MSOffice 2007 (or 2010) by adding a toolbar named "Menu." - Price: Donation requested. http://www.ubitmenu.com/ http://www.pcworld.com/article/215585/make_the_office_20072010_toolbars_more_familiar.html --------- OfficeTab - Provides tabbed document capability for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. - Customizable look and feel. - Price: $25.00. http://www.extendoffice.com/product/office-tab.html -------------- ASAP Utilities Over 300 utilities to speed up your work in Excel. For example: - Remove leading spaces, trailing spaces, extra spaces within cell contents - Remove empty columns or rows - Price: $49.00 Worth every penny. http://www.asap-utilities.com/index.php . ================================================== PRODUCTIVITY ------------------------------------------ Autoit - A programmer's tool for everybody - Record what you do. - Replay it whenever you need to. - Edit what you've recorded. - Add loops, If-Then-Else, delays, pop-ups for user input, and tons more stuff. - Examples: Underline changer, alarm ( with WinNotify), clear your Temp folder, show info from a database. http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ ----------------------------- Windows is defragging for you - No need to buy a defrag program. - Windows' own defragger is scheduled at 1:00 a.m. once a week. - To see the schedule choose Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter. - You'll see when your drives were last defragged and how badly they were fragmented. - You can manually inspect your drives and run a defrag, if you want to. . ================================================== ANDROID TIPS ----------------------------------- Use GMail for your Android contacts - Create and/or edit your contacts in GMail. - Set your phone to synchronize (it's probably already set). - Edit the contacts in GMail. - They show up on your phone almost immediately. - The reverse is also true: edit on phone, it updates GMail. https://mail.google.com/ ----------------------------------------------- Connect your phone directly to your file system - Connect with USB. Your phone becomes a drive on your computer. - You can transfer pictures, music and other files at will. - Consider using a file application. ------------------------------------------------ Save your battery, turn off items you don't need Whenever you're not using them, - Disable WiFi. - Turn off Bluetooth. - Turn off GPS. - Suspend synchronization. - To do all these in one widget, do this: * Press and hold a blank spot on your home screen. * Select Android Widgets. * Select the Power Control. * It has buttons for all the above, plus one to dim your screen brightness. -------------------------------- Use an automatic power conserver - Juice Defender is an app that disables features you're not using. - It handles the tasks listed above automatically. - For example, it turns off WiFi and data Access when not in use. - You can configure it as you please. ----------------------- Try a Keyboard Enhancer - Swiftkey is terrific. - It learns what you like to type and offers intelligent suggestions. - It has a good voice dictation capability built in. ---------------------- Get yourself a Notepad - Convenient for taking notes. - Great for typing a message, then pasting it into an email. --------------------------------- Set an access code for your phone - Keep your information secure. - You have information in your phone that you need to keep private. - Set up an access code like this: * Press Menu | Settings. * Select Location and Security. * Under Security, press Change Screen Lock. * Select either Pattern, PIN or Password ( I recommend PIN ). * Use something not obvious for your PIN or password ( not your wife's name ). . ================================================== ADDITIONAL ITEM We briefly discussed using virtualization technologies, such as VMWare, and Roger asked about creating a virtual disk from a physical one. Here's a product that does so. Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx