There are a lot of Windows unzip utilities out there, but 7-zip outshines the rest by far. The shell commands (right click a file to zip or extract), the multitude of supported formats, and the speed of extraction make it a star. And it definitely beats out XP’s standard unzipper for UI.
Posted on March 20th, 2008 by plusbryan
Filed under: Random | No Comments »
As you know, gmail has an awesome spam filter. It’s the reason I started using it for personal email in the first place.
They also have a cool feature that is not at all well documented, which can help you find out where your spam is coming from. The premise is simple - you can attach […]
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by plusbryan
Filed under: Random | No Comments »
In case you haven’t heard, Gmail has finally released IMAP support for Gmail. This means that you can access Gmail from Outlook (or any email client for that matter). The clear implication here is that I can use Xobni on my gmail inbox, finally!
Setting up Gmail on Outlook
Posted on October 26th, 2007 by plusbryan
Filed under: Random | 1 Comment »
The last few days I’ve been noticing my system lagging pretty badly at the end of the day.
On a whim, I took a look at mem usage in the task manager, and noticed the largest memory hog was not firefox as is the custom, but google desktop…
As I watched, google gobbled up memory […]
Posted on October 24th, 2007 by plusbryan
Filed under: Random | No Comments »