Tiny bytes of tech
Do you have a high-priority program running on your PC or server, which if it crashes, you would want to be notified immediately? Watcher is a nifty little utility that monitor one application (the free version) and sends you an IM or a text message if the program crashes. Go to Settings.ini to enter the app you want to monitor.
Watcher via Life Rocks
Ever wished you could have quickly hide a program on your desktop for a few minutes without actually closing or shutting it down? Clicky Gone might be able to help!
It’s a cool program that basically lets you hide programs from the desktop and taskbar with a key keystrokes and clicks. It’s also portable, so you can take it to any computer and use it.
Wish you had a tool that let you choose all kinds of free software to install on your computer and it did everything for you in the background?
Ninite is an awesome app that lets you choose from a whole slew of apps and then installs all the apps in the background with default settings, so you don’t have to click Next, Next, and I Agree a hundred times! It works with Windows 7, Vista, and XP.
Want one program that can read all eBook reader formats? STDU Viewer is a cool program that supports all popular formats including TXT, TIFF, CBR, CBZ, XPS and DjVu (DJV).
Other features include the ability to quick jump between sections and create your own bookmarks. It’s also very lightweight and is speedy.
If you’re like me, you might have thousands and thousands of digital pictures. Creating collages and slideshows is cool, but what if you could create a video movie of your pictures!?
PhotoFilmStrip is a free program that takes images and quickly create a stylish video with zoom-in and zoom-out effects. You can also add subtitles, a soundtrack and add effects to your images like black/white and sepia.
There are a lot of programs out there that you can use to remotely control your PC, but how about via Twitter? Using a program called TweetMyPC, you can not only shutdown and restart your PC by sending a Twitter tweet, you can also download files to your computer, lock your computer, get your IP address, and even get a screenshot of your desktop! Pretty neat!
If you have a lot of high-resolution photos, but you want to quickly resize them to a smaller size so you can share them more easily or upload them to a webpage, check out DropResize.
DropResize runs in the system tray and basically monitors a folder that you specify for new images and then automatically resizes them to whatever you height and width you prefer. It does keep the aspect ratio. As of right now, it only supports JPEG images, but the next release will support more.
Don’t like to keep Gmail open in your web browser all the time to see when a new email arrives. There are lots of Gmail notifiers out there and another one is Spiffy.
Spiffy has a clean interface and lots of configuration options. Whenever a new email arrives, you get a small popup window near your taskbar that you can click on to view the message. Simple and elegant.
folder2hyperlinks is an interesting program that basically takes a folder and creates an HTML webpage for it with hyperlinks to all the files inside that folder. You can open this HTML file in your browser and click on a file name and it will open the file in Windows! Note that you can use relative or absolute paths, so it’s great for offices where you have lots of networked drives.
Ever run into a situation where you have a bunch of empty folders inside other folders? Let’s say you had one folder with ten folders inside, 4 of which are empty. You could manually check each folder and delete the empty ones.
Or you can use Folder Vanity Remover, give the program a folder name and it will recursively delete all folders inside that folder that are empty. Neat!