oh a whim, i decided to visit lifehacker to find apps to use. well i did learn some new things =]
top thing i learnt today: Prism, by Mozilla Labs. an application that allows users to split web applications out of the browser onto the desktop. really cool. imagine running Gmail as a standalone window/application, or facebook, or twitter, or google calendar.. very very interesting. haven’t tried it out though. it’s a move towards the future where we won’t have to install programs on our computers anymore. we should be all accessing a central server where all the application data is stored.
i also found some sync services, like Syncplicity, which real-time syncs selected folders with the web server. it enables constant sync of multiple computers. obviously internet is the only problem. otherwise, they claim that you can simply work on one computer, and then shut it down and continue working on the other computer without doing any manual syncing. free up to 2 gb. real-time sync sounds fun. i’ve always been sorta crazy about syncing stuff. fast, lag-free internet is crucial in my life. 3.5G is not good enough.
then there’s also Evernote, a note-taking application that lets you access your notes anywhere you are. oh yes syncplicity also allows web access, so you can continue doing work on the web.
Teracopy, this new-fangled copy app to replace Windows’ default file copying service. it allows for resuming of copies and better faster copying. i hate it when the copy fails, especially when it’s a huge number of files or a huge file.
RevoUninstaller is supposed to be a fantastic uninstaller that properly wipes the program from your comp.
Auslogics Disk Defrag supposed to do good free defrags.
yeah there’s all those stuff which we see more often: Firefox; Foxmarks; Pidgin; Syncback; Samurize; Gmail; Google Reader; Google Calendar; Twitter; Notepad++; IrfanView; VLC Media Player;
interesting: Campfire (for holding group discussions, instead of using IMs)
STOP INSTALLING STUFF. or at least before i up my hard disk space.
oh yes, and everyone should use gTalk, or Gmail chat, or Google Talk, or Google Talk Labs Edition. simply because it is so tied to gmail that it doesn’t get blocked by the IT department. MSN sux on campus anyway. those guys at Google are also really confused, i mean, Gmail chat can do group chat, so can Google Talk running off the webpage, but Google Talk running as a program can’t do it. and Google Talk Labs Edition will be able to do it, although this is still in beta. they better fix it soon. Labs Edition resembles a pop-out gmail chat more than anything.