Depending on how obsessive compulsive you are, this tiny tool might be a god-send. Windows tends to build programs from left to right (away from the Start button) in the Taskbar as programs are launched. If you close a program and re-open it, it will go to the end of the line. If you want to be able to re-arrange the programs listed at the bottom of the screen, download Taskbar … [Read more...]

The Firefox extension DictionarySearch is intended to allow you to highlight a word, right-click on it, and select "Dictionary Search for [highlighted word]", looking up that word in an online dictionary. It is, however, very customizable. You can configure, as I have, the DictionarySearch add-on to point to any site you want it to. I have mine configured in both Firefox … [Read more...]

ReNamer is a very powerful and flexible file renaming tool, which offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences, changing file extensions, etc. For advanced users, there is a PascalScript rule, which let users program their very own renaming rule. Program … [Read more...]

Part of a series where I'll be investigating different infrastructures to support a small, but rapidly growing Knowledge Base, Dokuwiki has certainly been a breeze to setup and configure. Featuring a "typical" wiki front-end and simplistic "no-need" back-end, Dokuwiki is a pretty complete package. It lets you do almost everything that you would want to do with your wiki with … [Read more...]