Useful stuff you've discovered

Khannie

Well, this thread is an experiment. It may become a repository for brilliant little nuggets of computing goodness, or it may fall on its face. Let's see.

Today I found out that there is a new firmware for the vodafone router. I had to reset mine about once every other day. Hoping this one will be better.

JonB

I'm a lazy ****er when it comes to a fresh install so Ninite is handy way to install a lot of the software I use.
http://ninite.com/

demanufactured

Teamviewer is one of the handiest programs around.
Especially when you are.the family I.T tech

Defiler Of The Coffin

Dud is a program that does absolutely nothing.

Whenever you have a troublesome/annoying program that gets invoked on startup or by another program replace its binary with dud.exe and rename it back to the what the original binary was called. No more annoying program.

http://www3.telus.net/_/dud/

ScumLord

Remember the first step is always to try turning it off and on again.

mathepac

For some "users" the "turn it off leave it off" option is the only one.

TheUsual

Maybe obvious to everyone here but ...

1./ Find your processor website to check for updates automatically ... like for example http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/

and

2./ Find your graphic driver website to update manually ... example http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

and choose the automatic update options.


I went years before I realised that Microsoft Windows will do this automatically for you but the hardware side needs a bit of help from you.

Skerries

to find cheap games
http://www.find-game.co.uk/
http://dlcompare.com/gameindex.php
http://www.gamestracker.com/search.asp

to find cheap dvds/blu-rays
http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/

reviews on laptops and compare laptop graphics cards to see if it will play games
http://www.notebookcheck.net/

to check if your pc can run games
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx

_AVALANCHE_

When I turn it off now, I'm amazed I was able to look at how bright the screen use to be.

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

ScumLord

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

When I turn it off now, I'm amazed I was able to look at how bright the screen use to be.

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

I'd like to try that, I think I may suffer from this bit of text.

It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

The only problem is I calibrate my monitors for Photoshop, I'm guessing this kind of rules out the use of flux??

yoyo

I find AlternativeTO very handy. Basically you put in a program, say for example Internet Explorer and it will list alternative browsers you may like, weighted by user opinion!
Ever found a file that you havn't a clue what to open in? FileEXT is a file extension database which actually covers most possible types the file could be, with a link to the program(s) to open them.

Nick

mathepac

ScumLord wrote: »

... The only problem is I calibrate my monitors for Photoshop, I'm guessing this kind of rules out the use of flux??

flux changes the colour temperature of your monitor based on the time of day at your GPS location.

I haven't tried it in a multi-display set-up yet (flux one display but not others) but it would seem at this stage that it won't work for you which is a shame as it really is a wonderful piece of software, unobtrusive but doing what it says on the tin. A great little find.

snappieT

ScumLord wrote: »

The only problem is I calibrate my monitors for Photoshop, I'm guessing this kind of rules out the use of flux??

You can click in the taskpane and select "disable for 1 hour" when you're doing colour-sensitive work. Flux is a godsend, my eyes used to get very tired about the 4PM mark, and now they don't anymore.

I like Slickrun. It attaches to a keyboard shortcut, and you can define "magicwords" that run what you want. For example, I have one magicword that allows me to type Win-Z, d,hello - this does a Google definition search for the term "hello".