I have been using Jimi Wallets for a few years now, and I can’t live without them! They are slim, efficient, and versatile… The only drawback (or advantage) to them is you can’t overload them. They hold about 4 or 5 credit/ID cards and a few bills. I find that if you fold the bills in thirds rather than quarters you can fit more in. If you do overstuff the wallet consistantly for a long period of time the plastic hinge will warp… other than that it is as near a perfect wallet as was ever created! Go get one! You will never go back.
This is a great idea… we need more of this type of support for our environment…
A downloadable utility will give you easy access to your PCs’ power saving modes and also calculate the approximate power consumtion and savings for your PC.
Genie-Soft has released a major update to their backup products. Version 8 sports many enhancements and improvements over their already outstanding product. See previous Blog Entry.
Quoted from http://www.genie-soft.com/products/gbm/whats_new.html:
GBM can recover your system from malicious spyware, virus attacks, system failure, or deletion with the enhanced PE technology that also supports Vista and you can perform your Disaster Recovery backups online
Free Open File Backup Option
GBM currently added Microsoft’s latest Volume Shadow-Copy Service (VSS) framework, to permit consistent backup of open files without the need for additional applications or plug-ins.
Enhanced Online Backup Integration
Now it is easier to view, manage and delete your online backup storage. Added Bandwidth Throttling to control how much GBM takes from internet connection. Also improved connectivity that auto resumes when connection returns.
Improved Scheduling Capabilities
Now it is easier to protect and rotate backups with the intuitive easy to use scheduling interface that is integrated in the backup wizard with two modes; Basic Schedule and Advanced Schedule
REV Support
Now with the new Iomega REV support, users can automatically erase, enable/disable write and password protection before and after backup. Disaster recovery bootable disc and jobs can also be made on REV devices
Enhanced Graphical User Interface
Now more organized with clear options making GBM’s interface better than ever
Enhanced Filtering Options
Added support of Date and file size filtering and newly added in scripting
Control Power Options and Backup Speed
You can control backup speed before or during backup and enable/disable power options or change them during backup.
Pause/Snooze Backups
You can pause currently pause backups and postpone scheduled backups to start later via snoozing
New Compression Engine
The new zip engine is more resource friendly making backups faster and with better compressing capabilities
Improved Connectivity
GBM now detects when backup destination is accessible and also reports disconnected network drives being backed up
I have been searching high and low for a good wallpaper switcher that would link up to my Phanfare photo website. I found this great little switcher that not only supports Phanfare, but also local, Flickr, and Yahoo pictures as well! AND it supports multi-monitors!
New! John’s Background Switcher 3.1 has been released!
John’s Background Switcher periodically changes the background image on your computer (like every hour or every day). You can specify which pictures to choose from in any of the following ways:
You can select a list of specific pictures on your computer.
You can point it at a selection of folders on your computer, such as ‘My Pictures’ and it will select random pictures from there.
You can use Flickr (almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world) – you can select pictures by person, tags, sets or just plain random and there are a host of options to narrow down the pictures and increase the quality of those chosen. You never know what you’re going to get next!
You can select photos from your Phanfare web albums.
Easy CD-DA Extractor is a music converter that copies music CDs, converts music files from one format to another, and burns music CDs, MP3 CDs, WMA CDs, and regular Data CDs.
Supports all popular audio file formats such as 3G2, 3GP, MP1, MP2, MP3, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A, AAC, aacPlus(HE-AAC, AAC+, HE-AAC+PS, eAAC+), FLAC, Musepack, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Monkey’s Audio, CUE and M3U.
Easy CD-DA Extractor is a four-in-one software that includes the following modules:
1) Audio CD Ripper
Rips audio CDs with accurate, secure, high-performance CD ripping engine. Bypasses ‘copy-protections’. Reads CDs that are in bad condition and reports possible errors on the disc.
Automatically downloads disc information such as Artist, Track Titles, etc, and Cover Art image from the Internet.
Allows editing of ID3/metadata and can embed advanced metadata fields such as Cover Art image to the files.
Includes advanced audio processing features such as Peak Level Normalization, RMS Normalization, and Fade In/Out.
2) Audio File Format Converter
Music Converter – Converts audio files from one format to another.
Allows editing of ID3/metadata and can embed advanced metadata fields such as Cover Art image to the files. Cover Art images can be downloaded from the Internet using the brilliant ‘Amazon Search’ feature.
Can perform advanced audio processing such as Peak Level Normalization, RMS Normalization, and Fade In/Out.
3) Audio CD Creator
Writes Audio CDs that are compatible with all home/car CD-players.
Burns Audio CDs on-the-fly from all audio file formats.
Writes CD-Text (a CD-Text compatible CD-player can display the track titles while playing the CD).
BURN-Proof enabled for error-free CD burning.
4) MP3/WMA CD Creator
Writes MP3 CDs and WMA CDs that are playable on a CD/DVD-player that supports the feature. MP3 and WMA CDs can also be played on a regular CD-ROM drive of a computer.
Supports long JOLIET-filenames.
Can also be used to write standard Data CDs.
BURN-Proof enabled for error-free CD burning.
State-of-the-art audio encoding technology – Easy CD-DA Extractor includes the most advanced audio codec, aacPlus from the Coding Technologies.
Speedtest.net is a broadband connection analysis tool with a huge selection of geographically dispersed testing servers. Ookla provides this service free to hundreds of thousands of people every day. If you are experiencing slowness with your Internet connection or are simply interested in testing your speed, Speedtest.net is for you. If you have a web site, please feel free to link to Speedtest.net.
This is a REALLY great photo sharing/storage site that is also innovative and affordable.
I have been using the service for about a month (there is a free 30 day trial) and I’m just blown-away with all of the features and the ease of use of this wonderful service.
Presentation of your photos is far beyond Flickr, Shutterfly, Kodak, and YouTube (yes Phanfare handles videos also… seamlessly). There is monthly, yearly, and a lifetime cost: very affordable.
Store and present your photos and videos with style and class: Phanfare now!
Excerpt from site:
Elegant Online Photo and Video Albums
With Phanfare, your photos and videos are beautifully presented online for your friends and family to enjoy. You get your own web address (yourusername.phanfare.com) for ease of use and unlimited storage so all your photos and videos are preserved for years to come.
Photo and Video Slideshows with Music and Captions
Your Phanfare slideshows fill the whole screen with your photos and videos. You can add your own music and captions. The result is an amazing, professional-looking slideshow.
Share your Albums with Friends and Family
With Phanfare you get a website (yourusername.phanfare.com) to share with your friends and family. If you already own your own web domain, you can host your photos under your personal domain name. You can also set a password for your web albums. Your friends can view slideshows, order prints or download full-size originals directly from your website — and we will NEVER ask them to register at Phanfare to see your albums.
Enhanced Video Support
Upload your video clips to Phanfare and then see them on your albums and even in your slideshows with your photos. Phanfare will convert your video files into Flash for easy viewing by your friends and family.
GrandCentral doesn’t replace your phones; we just link them together and help them do more. How do we do that? We give people One Number…for LifeTM – a number that’s not tied to a phone or a location – but tied to you.
With GrandCentral, you can be reached with a single number, answer a call at any phone you want, seamlessly switch phones in the middle of a call, and even know whether a call is important before you take it.
What else can I do with GrandCentral?
We’re not your typical phone company. And these aren’t your typical features.
Check your messages by phone, email, or online
Keep all your messages online for eternity
Record and store your phone calls (just like voicemail)
Quickly (and secretly) block an annoying caller
Click-to-dial from your address book
Surprise your callers with a custom voicemail greeting
Turn your Mp3s into the ring tones your callers hear
Here is a little trick to enhance the use of eBay’s really nice seller’s widget: append your seller ID on the items description line! Now when you create the Widget for use on your Web site choose the ’search’ mode and then search on your seller ID. eBay plans to add the search on seller’s ID in the future, but this workaround will bring that functionality to you now! Here are my latest items for sale on eBay:
If you already own your own web domain, you can host your photos under your personal domain name. You can also set a password for your web albums. Your friends can view slideshows, order prints or download full-size originals directly from your website — and we will NEVER ask them to register at Phanfare to see your albums.
