I’ve been using Google Docs quite a bit lately. It’s starting to grate on me a little.
If you are particular about how things look, you almost have to hack the HTML version. Setting styles on text sometimes works, clearing formatting sometimes works, etc.
You’ll get in nested HTML tag hell pretty quickly just by doing basic text formatting — headings, bold, italics and so forth.
Don’t get me started on tables. They’re even worse.
I’ve known about Launchy for a while, but just recently started using it regularly. What a helpful piece of software.
If you’re like me and have about 50 programs running at the same time, hardly ever see your desktop wallpaper and your toolbars take up too much space on your desktop, Launchy is what the doctor ordered.
I would imagine that if you’re a notebook user and the touchpad isn’t fast enough for you, this will help save you some time.
Even better: it’s open source.
Here’s the official blurb, if you haven’t clicked the link already:
Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.
Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!
Here’s some nice Lifehacker.com reviews and tweaks.
I’m a fairly content AT&T DSL subscriber. I’ve also been a loyal AVG Antivirus user since my last nightmare with Norton Antivirus 2004. It turned out to be a chipset incompatibility with my model of Dell Dimension 4100 that caused the never-ending cycle of BSODs.
Old news.
I came downstairs to the computer the other morning to find an AVG ad on my screen. Grrrr. Any program installed on my machine that throws ads up on the screen is gonna to get uninstalled.
My co-workers kept raving about the Symantec AV that comes free with AT&T DSL. I don’t know what I was thinking, but I thought I would give it a spin.
Stupid move.
I should have stopped when it required that I use IE instead of Firefox. I had to set IE to my default browser. The agony.
An hour and a half later, I’m beating my head against the brick wall of crap software that is Symantec Antivirus. Here’s the lovely error message:
Problem is: There wasn’t a previous install or uninstall to be completed. I did everything they told me. I clicked here to resolve. It didn’t. I uninstalled AVG, Windows Defender, disabled my Windows Firewall, manually deleted my Temp files, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum. Four restarts later, I’m ranting right here.
Check out these moves:
Check, check, check and check. Uninstall. Yes, I’m sure.
Downloading the Norton Removal Tool. Check.
Running…
Ahhhh…Freedom.
Man, things are crazy in NBA blogging circles about former Sonics owner and Starbucks gazillionaire Howard Schultz’s lawsuit against new owner Clay Bennett.
Apparently, there’s a real possibility that it could keep the Sonics in Seattle.
I’m watching this with great interest because I don’t want the Sonics to move to OKC. I think the chances are less likely that KC will get an NBA team in the Sprint Center if there’s a team in OKC.
Sadly, they probably will move to OKC because:
If they don’t move, I might break down and go buy a Venti Caramel Macchiato at Starbucks to celebrate.
[fingers crossed]
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