Net Sieve

The free software TextMaker Viewer from SoftMaker allows you to open, view and print from any common word processing formats. The TextMaker Viewer runs on all Windows versions from Windows 95 to XP and a Linux version is currently being developed. If you need to send someone a document but you don’t know if the person has the right word processor, send them to the Textmaker freeware download.

Supported file formats:
.doc Microsoft Word 6.0 up to Word 2003
.dot Microsoft Word templates 6.0 up to 2003
.tmd TextMaker 6.0 up to 2006
.odt OpenDocument Text
.sxw OpenOffice.org Text
.rtf Rich Text Format
.psw Pocket Word (Pocket PC)
.pwd Pocket Word (Handheld PC)
.htm/html HTML documents
.txt Text files (DOS, Windows, Unicode, UTF-8)

Cool. But are we ever going to get to the point where “hand held” conjures up images of the banks of whirling thimgamajigs that used to make up a single computer?

I’m not saying that I don’t think an MP3 player embedded in my brain is a bad thing. I want that and I’ll put out for nano technology any day.

It’s just that it starts looking ridiculous when your ear bud is larger than your player. Already it’s a joke to try find my iPod in my pocket between the pack of gum, my nail clippers, my Pilot pen and the clump of lint.

Now this is the enthusiasm for space that we need to rekindle the world over – beginning at home. I know, wars and all that, but hopefully the next administration will will be a lot more conducive to life in space and on Earth.

Rockets belong in space, not on city streets.

Special Keys is a free software utility to insert any character into any Windows program.

You can define the buttons to insert any character you like, for typing in French, German or Spanish using a non-specific keyboard or just for those everyday things like ©, TM and ±. No more keystrokes to remember or define, just click!

Download Special Keys.

I love this functionality – now I can cram even more windows into my windows!

WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allow you to separate your screen into two, three or four…
Especially suitable for high-end LCD screens with big resolutions, WinSplit Revolution helps you to manage efficiently active windows.
Features and options:
- automated window handling (resize, move, reorganize, close tasks)
- shape – process association
- global hotkeys and clickable virtual numpad
- automatic startup

Download this thang.

If you manage a network you know you can never be too secure and you know that downtime is never an option. Now imagine that your network has physical locations not only in your office but across the country. Makes you feel even a more insecure, doesn’t it?

Uplogix’s Envoy Network Security Tool you can regain your confidence and connectivity. This remote management tool allows you to monitor, maintain, repair and log your network from a single location. Best of all, Envoy is always connected, even when your network isn’t, so getting back up to speed is quicker than ever without the need to leave your site.

Finally, something to watch on the telly. Funny, they’ve been using the wireless for centuries now, you’d think… now if they could just do something about the bloody fog.

I thought this was a good laugh for a Friday morning. I appreciate this guy sharing his information, but who really did not know this?

News Flash: Telephones Now Mo-Bile!

Read about it first thing tomorrow morning when your newspaper arrives. (Yes, there really were such things as newspapers, actually made from the corpses of trees murdered for the manufacture of a monitor screen-like substance called paper that could be read with the human eye. I know. I worked for one.)

Man, I am still such a fan of space .. yes, outer. I’m so excited at the prospect of seeing people living aboard a space station in my lifetime. I’ve been reading about it since I was a tiny nerd kid and I thought it would never come.

The sweetest irony … if irony can be considered sweet … is that a female, non-Russian is the commander of a Soyuz craft blasted off from a Kazakhstan cosmodrome. I wish Isaac Asimov would have lived to see this. *sigh*