Wednesday, May 27, 2020

ShareX is the screen capture tool you're looking for

They all have things like adding text and annotations now.  Most can upload to sharing sites too.  ShareX does all that and goes a step further and makes it easy to build workflows of your image gathering, which is fantastic for semi-automating repetitive tasks and large projects.

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Fileseek - A fast Windows file finder

Agent Ransack is not the only free and fast Windows file search utility.  Try Fileseek, you won't regret it.

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Hey, another Web Server

Phusion Passenger is a web application server for multiple languages, including Ruby, Python and Node.js.

Desktop Info, the worthy successor to BGInfo

Admins like BGInfo for how it can show concise and important system info on the desktop.

But what it shows is static.  You really can't tell when the data on the screen was last updated.  It isn't very pretty, and customizing is less than ideal.

Drop BGInfo end go get Desktop Info, which shows real-time system information on your desktop.

It is lightweight, easy to customize, and supports multiple pages of information.  It even auto reloads the config file if you edit it. 

Get Desktop Info, you won't look back.


Monday, May 4, 2020

A neat looking web server

Caddy 2
"Still the only web server to use TLS automatically and by default."
and
A live config API to update your server on the fly via a REST API.
and
Someone at Lets Encrypt thinks it is impressive.


Use textverified.com to receive text messages

Great for expats.  Allows you to temporarily rent a US phone number -- an actual one, not a VoIP one, so you can receive sms - a txt message...