Chris Hess

Tag: Programs

  • Google Chrome – My Thoughts

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    Ok, so Google created a browser. I haven’t spent a ton of time playing with it, but its worth a look if you haven’t downloaded it yet. It can be downloaded for windows only right now at http://google.com/chrome. Below are my thoughts: 1. It seems to load pages (particularly AJAX based apps) quite quickly. 2.…

  • Ajax Todo List

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    I have finally uploaded my Ajax Todo list so that others who want to can use it. There are a bunch of files so I zipped them all together into a zip file which can be downloaded from the page. It requires PHP and MySQL to work. A working example can be seen here: http://hesswebservices.com/download_scripts/TodoV1…

  • Launchy – Zune 2 Skin

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    Have you ever had trouble finding a program in your start menu? Well I have lots… OpenOffice.org Writer has always been the worst – It’s just never where I think it will be. Previously I have seen a whole lot of people who claimed that Launchy was a program they just couldn’t live without, and…

  • Free Voicemail!

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    About 6 months ago, I signed up with a free voicemail service called Private Phone. It was great. They gave me a free local phone number I could give out as my business line, and I got emails every time I got a message. This week however, I learned that they will be discontinuing service…

  • mint.com – Refreshing Money Management

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    Last week I setup an account at Mint.com. The site is to be used as a “dashboard” for all of your finances. How it works is you first create a free account. You then log in and add a bank account to their interface. This involves giving them the name/url of the bank or credit…

  • An interesting last hour or so… – Stopping spam in a phpbb forum…

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    Well, I was sending in my homework, and it was taking FOREVER for it to go through. In the process, I got distracted looking at the information on bandwidth for some of my sites that I manage. I found that one, my brother’s for his book Redonn had a surge of traffic this month. I…

  • Whats on your computer?

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    When I first started my new job, my boss was telling one of the other guys about a program called “SpaceMonger”. It sounded pretty neat, so I thought I would look into it. I figure this is a good place for me to express how absolutely pleased I am with this program. What SpaceMonger does…