Articles by Samer Kurdi
Desktop Takeover is a free program that can place images on your desktop wallpaper either as individual images or "channels" of images that refer to a combination of pre-set list of images, folder(s), or URLs. Channels and background wallpapers can be individually set to rotate/shuffle at a user defined time interval.
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A simple, casual free game that involves running around and blasting robots. It employs an interesting twist whereby whenever you die, you get to replay a level alongside the past incarnation of yourself (your previous playing sequences preserved and re-played, resulting in many of your guys simultaneously unleashing a whole lot of firepower).
Read more on Choke on my Groundhog, YOU BASTARD ROBOTS: a fun casual blaster with a twist…
Window Ruler is a free on-screen measurement "ruler" tool that offers a number of interesting features, including portability, the ability to "snap-to" any on-screen object, and the ability to automatically resize to a number of common predefined size profiles.
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Hexagora Performance Monitor is a light and customizable freeware application that displays four important system load values – CPU, memory, disk and network traffic. It requires no user input to work out of the box and is portable.
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Microsoft Photosynth is a program that can combine multiple images taken at or around a single location from multiple perspectives into a single, unified whole. The resulting synth can be viewed as a single object from different perspectives and browsed in and out of, and it incorporates many of the details that might have been contained in the various source images.
Read more on Photosynth: build interactive 3D environments from multiple 2D images…
Slowmousion is a small free memory resident app that slows down mouse movements whenever the user presses keyboard hotkey. It is useful whenever the user needs heightened control over mouse movements such as when using the mouse for drawing or illustrating purposes.
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ThumbWin and miniMize are two free memory resident apps that allow you to minimize open windows and programs to the desktop as thumbnails. You are then able to maximize and access these windows/apps again by clicking on the thumbnails on the desktop.
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You might have noticed that I’ve not been able to post for a few days. The company I work for flew everyone in the office from Seattle to NYC for a company function on Thursday, and it was an opportunity to take my wife and kids along for a long weekend in the big city.
This posting will present a number of free options that can provide access and/or allow surfing of sites that are blocked by a corporate firewall or by your Internet Service Provider. Options presented are (1) using a proxy service site, (2) Web2mail (3) getting internet from your home machine via VPN, (4) using an internet anonymizer, and (5) using Google.
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WinExt is a free horizontal bar docked to the top or bottom of your screen that can give access to your files, folders, and programs as cascading menus or as shortcuts placed on the bar itself. It also offers an optional “infobar” with status indicators for CPU, memory, battery, and hard disk drive usage.
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Stitcher is a web service that brings together a number of internet radio news podcasts, creates virtual stations by topic, and allows users to customize stations and bookmark favorites, etc. Stitcher is also available on the iPhone.
Phlox is a small program for Windows XP that runs in the background and tweaks the "f2" button when used to rename a file in Windows XP, such as to select only the file name without the extension (similar to Windows Vista).
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