Comments (0) Whilst this may not be pertinent to everyone, if you are a laptop user with Windows Vista installed, then you might like this.
BattCursor is a small utility that changes your mouse cursor to show you how much battery life you have left in your laptop. Very simple idea, but it works rather well. This utility does a bunch of other things as well, but the ability to constantly see the state of your battery is very appealling. Take a look.
This, I think is rather inspired. It sums up to me what the internet does very well.
If, like me, instruction manuals tend to get lost within 30 seconds of opening a new piece of equipment, then you are going to love this site. Manuals Online is a website that not only helps you find manuals for all of your things, but also gives you a place to store them all online. Once you set up a free account, you can store all of your user manuals in different areas corresponding to different rooms in your house. That way it is really quick and easy to bring up any manual.
Take a look and see – I think it’s brilliant.
If you have a PDF document that you need to either convert to a Word document or simply extract the text from it, then go to PDF To Word – a website that allows you to do this for free. No need to choose a pricey paid-for alternative when this site does it for nothing.
Not much more to say on this one.
Just come across a fantastic website that just might be a lifesaver (not literally, obviously !). If you’ve ever had a washing machine/dishwasher/cooker/any other household appliance that has a part broken or missing, good luck trying to get a replacement part from the manufacturer ! They sell machines, not parts.
This is where espares comes in. As they say on their website, they stock “spares and accessories from over 500 of the world’s largest manufacturers”. It is a treasure trove of bits and pieces and you will surely be able to locate that strange washer or adapter or whatever and fix the machine rather than have to buy a whole new one – great in these cost-conscious times we find ourselves in.
Brilliant idea and very impressively put together. You will undoubtedly need this one day, so bookmark it now !
You may or may not have come across bookmarklets, but they are very useful things. Essentially, it is a bookmark that has added functionality. They do a similar job to simple browser plug-ins (add-ons, extensions, call them what you will) without the need to install anything.
Take a look at this page – it lists some very cool bookmarklets, some of which I knew and a few that I hadn’t come across. Very useful to have them all on one page, though.
My wife has just emailed me this video. Often when you are sent a link, it ends up being disappointing – it may have seemed very funny to the sender at the time, but it doesn’t seem quite as funny when you are looking at it the next morning when you are sitting at your desk at work. This one, though, I challenge anyone who watches it not to laugh at it. It is incredibly well made and made me laugh – hopefully it will make you laugh too.
If you want to screenshot a web page, but don’t want to install new software, you can now do it very easily. If you just type “aviary.com/” before the URL, you will then have an editable screenshot of that page. For example, if you wanted to screenshot this page, you would type type aviary.com/http://www.reviewsonthenet.com/wordpress/ and hit enter – try it now.
Alternatively, if that is too difficult, you can use this boomarklet – add it to your bookmarks bar and you don’t even need to type the aviary.com part – how easy is that ?!?
Nice little free utility – MonitorES (Monitor Energy Saver). Download this tiny (85k) utility and whenever you lock your PC, either by WinKey + L or by Ctrl-Alt-Delete, it will automatically switch off your monitor as well, thus helping to save the planet. Added festures also include the ability to pause all media programs, set your IM status messages to ‘away’ and auto-start with windows so it runs every time you start windows. If you need to, you can also use Ctrl + F2 to just turn off your monitor.
This should be standard on all PC’s in my opinion.
Great idea, yet so simple (aren’t always the best ideas the simplest ones ?!?). DocMazy (odd name, I know) is a new search engine that only looks for documents (). If you are doing some research and don’t want to get bogged down with websites, this is the place for you. Documents, documents and only documents…………….
Meta-iPod cleans up and repairs the metadata on your iTunes tracks – this is things such as star ratings and album artwork. It can find and delete duplicates and locate tracks on your computer that aren’t in your iTunes library. It can also fix files that have been moved from their original location and thus unlinked from iTunes.
If you use iTunes, you will want to use this !
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