I’m on FriendFeed

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I wouldn’t say I’m hatin’ on Twitter, but since it’s blocked here at work, keeping an eye on it without the “with friends” feed basically blows. So per Judi’s request, I’ve signed up for FriendFeed:
http://friendfeed.com/jackbrewster
This is a pretty sweet looking service. I’m still not ga-ga over the social web, but I wouldn’t mind following a [...]

Sysinternals PsTools - Command line remote management

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Just blogging this so I don’t ever ever ever forget about it.
Sysinternals PsTools is a command line tool to remotely manage Windows computers.

Getting Quicksilver-ish with Launchy

Friday, April 21st, 2006

One of the downsides of Launchy is that it’s only an app launcher, so if you’re used to all the power of Quicksilver, it falls short. But I had a small epiphany this morning - if an app supports command line parameters, you can get a lot more functionality out of Launchy.
Using Outlook 2003 [...]

Launchy - a cool little launcher for Windows

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

(This one is for Difranco because it’s Mac-ish)
Since I’ve been dabbling in Mac-land, I’ve been using the must-have Quicksilver as an app launcher. It does tons of other amazing stuff, but I haven’t gotten far enough into it yet.
QS is keyboard driven. Enter the keyboard shortcut to launch the interface, then type in [...]

Bringing down the price - on AppZapper

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

“The uninstaller that Apple forgot.”
macZot (a mac apps deal/blog/thing ) is trying out an interesting marketing tactic. Every blog post that links to their AppZapper offer drops the price $.05.
As a recent half-switcher, this is something I’ve considered getting. Even if I have to pay full price, it looks like it’s well worth [...]