Tiny bytes of tech
Do you watch a lot of TV? If so, you might be interested in a neat little app called TV-Browser. It’s a cross-platform TV guide that can download TV programming schedules from more than 900 TV stations, including cable and satellite channels.
What’s cool is that you can setup reminders, add programs to your calendar of choice (Google Calendar, Outlook, etc), create favorites, view by genre, and even set programs to record if you have a TV tuner on your PC.
Windows Live SkyDrive is a free service from Microsoft that lets you store files online, up to 25 GB. It’s quite a bit of free space and now you can access it from Windows Explorer.
SkyDrive Explorer is a free extension for Windows that lets you drag and drop files to the online drive as if it were a local drive. You can also view file information like size, create date, type, etc. Sweet!
Do you have an important CD or DVD that has been scratched and no longer being read properly by your computer? Or maybe you have a RW CD/DVD that you accidentally overwrote?
DataMiner is a free program that can help you recover data from damaged or scratched CDs and DVDs. It can recognize tons of files like BMP, PDF, PSD, EXE, MDB, and more.
Ditto is an open-source clipboard manager for Windows that allows you to store multiple items at once. By default, Windows only stores the last copied item in the clipboard.
With Ditto, you can store text, images, HTML and even formatted text. It’s fast and has a very small memory footprint. Also, you can keep clipboards in sync across computers! Neat!
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.