I'm still very disappointed that I can't use the 'peek-a-boo' posts anymore. I'm also very disappointed that I can't seem to write to save my soul lately. (Also, I can't help but to add a 'd' to the word 'soul' every time I type it. Seriously, I really think 'sould' needs to replace 'soul' in the dictionary, just with a silent 'd'.) For some reason I am having a really hard time focusing. Even now, I'm struggling to write even this.
This wouldn't be so disappointing were it not for the fact that I really want to write. Of late, I've been thinking constantly about some of the pieces I haven't finished, and I've even been crafting ways that I might be able to get them to work. This is wonderful, except that I can't seem to focus long enough to actually make it happen.
Oh well.
I have a few things to talk about today... and I know it's been a little while since I've done, so hopefully I get it right.
Sysinternals goes Live!
If you're a geek, and I mean the type of geek that's always being recruited to do tech support for your friends and family, then you should be familiar with Sysinternals.
Sysinternals is a suite of extremely useful programs which were developed over a decade ago by a couple of guys who seem more versed in Windows internals than anyone at Microsoft. A couple years ago Microsoft bought them out completely, which was really a great move on their part, being that they didn't seem capable of doing the work themselves. I've personally been using Sysinterals for years for troubleshooting and tweaking.
Just this last week, Microsoft announced the creation of live.sysinternals.com. This new system is a test to deliver the various utilities in a different way. Best of all, though, is that if you enter \\live.sysinternals.com\ into explorer, it will actually fuction as a read-only share, allowing you to actually launch the various applications and utilities right from the share.
So, next time you're off helping something figure out a problem, probably related to their porn addiction, or if you just wanna freak someone out with the bluescreen screensaver, and you didn't bring your sysinternals flash drive, and the system you're working on is connected actively to the internet, you can just connect right up and get right to work.
Goosh
In other news of complete geekery, a guy by the name of Stefan Grothkopp has written a full shell for Google based on AJAX called Goosh.
If you're not familiar with a shell, then you're not much of a geek. It's similar to typing 'cmd' into the run box in Windows, or launching the Terminal under linux, and it's designed to mimic the Unix shell, like what happens in the background of MacOS X.
Now, most people looking at this might think it's the most counter-intuitive way to search the web, but for a lot of people, typing is faster than mousing, and being able to 'Ctrl-Tab' back to a search shell, type your query and then select your result with a number is a much easier method.
If you're used to using a shell, it's absolutely phenomenal. You can even use the 'addengine' command to add it to your browser's search engine box. Of course, you need to be careful, because just like using Linux, you tend to get a inflated sense of '1337-ness'.
Scribd
I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned this before, but I decided to check out Scribd again.
Scribd is a site that makes sharing documents online brilliantly easy, and it does it in a way that's absolutely brilliant.
Below is an example of their 'iPaper' which uses flash and an simple embed code to place an entire document inline on a page.
The code is clean, and it everything loads very quickly.
Beyond the single user use, they've also got a full web platform that allows you to use their customer web api to publish docs on your own site.
I know it seems like I'm a little behind the times, but they've made some great strides since last I looked, and I thought it was worth noting here.
Parting words....
My brain is starting to turn to mush, so I think I need to call it a night, unfortunately (for me, not you).
But, I'll be back.
Monday, June 2, 2008
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