Today I am going to share a little productivity tip with you a ‘la 43 Folders by showing you one of my favorite apps . It is one of the million attempts to clone Quicksilver … Everyone knows that none can come close in the other areas … but I think this one equals it in the app launching area … if you don’t follow … I am talking about an application launcher … It is something that with a key combination it pops up a box in which you can type the first few letters of an application then it will launch it for you…and the one that is my very favorite is called Launchy since I have had it my productivity has increased 5x … How can this be you say … well here is a screenshot of my desktop

Yes that is my desktop. where are the icons ? There are no icons. This is because I don’t need them . Why ? This little thing right here.

One tap of alt-space and up comes this. It is called Launchy. Besides this one it also comes with tons of other cool skins if you are on windows this is a must have app. But WAIT There is MORE if you call within the next whenever it will even be opensource. That is right , launchy is completely free and opensource. There you have no excuse.

Links

These are links I wrote about above

• 43 Folders Merlin Mann’s Amazing Productivity site 43 Folders
• Quicksilver Amazing app launcher (and much, much , more) for mac os
• Launchy as close to QuickSilver without smelling apples

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Netvibes just keeps getting better and better …I have not posted about netvibes before…but it is my homepage of choice..You can add rss feeds , email , calendars and Countless other widgets and modules made by the Community …They have just added a new skin with a winter theme

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Yes !!

In case you have been living under a virtual rock Firefox Flicks is a website that hosts user generated firefox ads … and now they have made some new ones … and they Rock … There are about 6 of them so I’m going to make a Whole Page
Here is the best video here

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In case you haven’t noticed the tech community has been buzzing over the tragic death of James Kim the tech analyst It has been in the media a lot , in my local paper and such….but when I went to the mailbox to get the mail…I see my mom’s people magazine … and what is on the front cover…
Yep…James Kim.. the entire front cover of the magazine

James-Kim James-and-kati-kim James-and-kati-dot-com news world-news tech tech-news technology-news james+kim magazine people-magazine people-magazine-cover front-page-magazine

This is unbelievable … seriously…But I mean… I guess I Shouldn’t be surprised

Watch the video Below:


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…Ok let me set the stage … I just got a u3 thumb drive …more info Here A u3 drive AutoRuns a menu on start to run Portable Applications Applications that you can run from a ThumbDrive
anyways so … a lot of innovation has come from PortableApps.com … the makers of PortableFirefox and PortableThunderbird John Haller … anyways he has made an awesome portable app called the PortableAppsMenu

It is just like the u3 menu except its FREE and OPEN-SOURCE and its so much more customizable then the u3 menu … also you can customize every aspect of this menu … it comes either pre-stocked with apps such as openoffice , firefox , and thunderbird weighting in at about 90 megs , without openoffice for 30 megs or with no apps and completely customizable for a paltry 1 meg …

as you can see the menu is very visually appealing . and since its opensource it is completely customizable and redustributable … it also comes with an awsome program called PortableApps backup wich is an opensource backup program to backup your data and settings

…and the BIGGEST difference between this and the u3 launcher is the fact that this does NOT require that you have special hardware you can use any media you want … a usb hard drive , a use thumb drive , an ipod, iriver , zen , psp , digital camera (if you wanted to…) ANYTHING …

You can download many version of this app …but make sure you download them from either the official site PortableApps.com/suite or one of the following urls

• Download the full version at 80 megs Here
• Download the lite version without openoffice Here
• Download the base version with only PortableApps Backup and PortableApps Menu Here

Also make sure you see PortableApps Other Awesome features like:

• How Do I add apps to my new portableapps menu ?
• Browse The portableapps App Directory
• Checkout what other Thumb-Drive Toting geeks think at the portableapps forums
• What is a portable app anyway ?
• PortableApps Development
• Subscribe the the PortableApps Newsletter

But wait … there’s more … there is more than ONE portable application site …. PortableApps.com might write the apps … but my FAVORITE site catalogs hundreds upon hundreds of apps is PortableFreeware.com and portablefreeware also has very active forums … the portable apps menu is actually posted on portablefreeware Here
The forums are at Portablefreeware.com/forums … have fun with portable apps

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My name is Dan Keenan, and Mike had invited me to contribute to his blog. This an 11-minute video I put together almost a year ago on how to hack you single-board :CueCat.

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A brand new episode of my Favorite iptv show is finally out !!!!
….I don’t need to say anymore … just watch :

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xydftJ92etw]

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Make love not warCRAFT
It needs no description…just watch …or else

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…I haven’t posted in a week or so …And I haven’t checked the blogofficial wordpress blog …. man the wordpress guys didn’t let me down….they added not one …not two …but THREE new themes ….2 of which I really like …1 being UNsleepAble and the other being K2 there is also a brand new theme I have never even heard of…Gotta check it out’
…if you are not using wordpress I HIGHLY recommend you make the switch
Also…with all of these cool new themes …expect my theme to switch regularly

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A new media player called Songbird has released a new version
If you have never heard of it …it is a player that is built on the same code as Firefox
It has tons of cool features …and whats more …it just release a mac version too
It is open source and currently in alpha…so its only going to get better…well….the creators can explain it better than I can
So…here you go

and just for fun…here are some cool little songbird buttons…
I really like songbird and Im going to add one of these to my sidebar permanently

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Apparently mozilla has been protective of firefox trademarks lately
which is very uncommon for “free”(as in free speech) software …debain does not aggree with this…they believe that its not really “free”(as in speech) …They plan to change the name of firefox in all of its distros ….Wow….Mozilla WTF? …I never though mozilla would do something like this … Whats next … We switch back to IE ?

Via Slashdot

Viraptor writes, “Debian is ready to change the name of Firefox in its distributions, beginning with Etch. They say it can be done within a week. The reasons stem from Mozilla’s recent insistence on trademark fidelity and its preferences regarding Firefox patches. Debian doesn’t want to accept the original trademarked fox & globe logo; they don’t see it as really ‘free’ to use. On the other hand, Mozilla doesn’t want Firefox distributed under that name if it lacks the logo. Mozilla also wants Debian patches to be submitted to them before distribution, and claims that’s what others (Red Hat and Novell) are already doing. But some believe development and releases will slow down if distribution-specific patches have to be checked and accepted first. We will surely see more clashes between copyright claims and ‘really free’ distros such as Debian. Ubuntu is also asking similar questions.” No word yet what the new name will be or what the logo will look like.

Slashdot | Firefox To Be Renamed In Debian

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When google annouced that they were going to make a web based rss reader I was really excited….then I saw it …and
I was disapointed NOW they have remade it …it is SO much better now …you gotta try it it is so much better (click to enlarge)

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Hmm…remember when I said that I was going “Out on my own” to run my own webserver and drupal…
Well…Im back…and so I come crawling back to WordPress.com
Sure Drupal Might have more features…but its not just about the checks in the boxes
the reason I came back to wordpress is because of the community and people actualy read my blog *Gasp*
So expect a lot more content to come on this blog and also my other blog Download of the Day