Archive for September 2008

 
 

Memento

I wrote Memento after the 29th time I needed a simple app to keep little text notes on my desktop, and, as usual, found the only programs available seemed to be either crap, not free, a 7Mb download, or some combination of the above.

Memento is about 345k and does pretty much everything with little desktop notes that I want it to do. The emphasis is on being convenient, unobtrusive, and easy to use. I hope you find it useful too.

www.guyswithtowels.com/dev/apps/memento.html

Q10

Q10 is a simple, full screen text editor targeted towards writers. It is much like Dark Room/WriteRoom but with some extra features like a spell checker, notes list, alarms, auto correction and a customizable info bar. It also makes the sound of an analog typewriter, a very nice touch which you can disable if you like (phew).

It comes in different languages and in an installable and portable version.

baara.com/q10

CDisplayEx

A comic book archive file is a renamed, often uncompressed archive of images for sequential viewing. The archive can be viewed with a special reader, like CDisplayEx, or opened by renaming it back to the corresponding compression format (cbz->zip, cbr->rar, cb7->7zip, etc).

CDisplayEx is a Comic reader based on CDisplay. It use the popular 7-zip plugins to read many archives types like cbr cbz cbt rar zip tar 7z lzh arj cab tar.gz tar.bz2. It supports jpeg png gif and bmp images.

sourceforge.net/projects/cdisplayex

VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also open source software.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

www.virtualbox.org