Posted by meero on October 28, 2005
Today, I started using Synergy to share my desktop keyboard and mouse with my Toshiba M200. The ease of installation and use is fair and the results are outstanding!
Synergy works also across different platforms, including Unix and Mac. Meanwhile, the windows installation process seems to be the easiest one so far.
A tutorial on how to install and configure synergy can be found here.
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Posted by meero on May 3, 2005
I downloaded and used Aduna AutoFocus for a few days, and I am impressed by the idea. AutoFocus enables exploration of documents on your hard drive based on word associations. For instance, if I am looking for images from my vacation in egypt, I will type “vacation” and “Egypt” as my two keywords. As a result, AutoFocus will show those results related to vacation, those related to Egypt, and the ones related to vacation and Egypt. The application is so much fun to play with, and it’s FREE for personal use
You can see a Flash tour before download
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Posted by meero on March 17, 2005
WinDirStat is another cool tool to view your hard drive statistics. In addition to what is provided from SequoiaView, WinDirStat provides a simple file explorer so you can quickly get detail on demand without leaving the application, which I believe is a win for this application
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Posted by meero on March 16, 2005
Meet FreeMind, one of the best brainstorming tools I have used for the past couple of years.
Mind Mapping has been historically known as one of the effective ways to brainstorm and organize ideas. More information about the process of Mind Mapping can be found here
Unlike MindManager from MindJet, Free Mind is free :). And one of the best things about it, is that I almost don’t use the mouse to create, navigate or organize the maps. You can pretty much do everything with the keyboard.
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Posted by meero on March 16, 2005
I have been using Bayden systems’ 
for a while now, and I found it to be one of the most productive tools to access your desktop application, especially if you are a keyboard person like me.
I find the way you establish a shortcut, by using the droplet to choose a running application, to be fascinating. Other ways of establishing shortcuts include Microsoft’s QuickLaunch folder on the taskbar, and the Window+R (Run) command, which either requires entering the full path or having the correct environment variables settings.
Their design philosophy to provide a simple, powerful and stable product is well realized in this application. Two thumbs up!
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Posted by meero on March 2, 2005
SequoiaView is a very neat FREE tool for Treemap visualization of the file system.
I have been looking for such a tool for too long, and I noticed an entry about it in Devon Strawn’s blog.
Much information on the structure of your system can be inferred such as the file and folder sizes and your space utilization.
If it’s not very informative for you, it’s still a good chance to see how pretty your hard drive looks 
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Posted by meero on March 1, 2005
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