I recently took a “Writing it Right” course at Memorial University where the following poem was handed out to illustrate limitations with Microsoft’s spell-check functionality; I found it amusing: I have a spelling checker. It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot sea. Eye ran this poem threw it, Your sure reel glad two no. Its vary polished in it’s weigh, My checker tolled me sew. [...]

7-Zip: A file archiver with a high compression ratio. Bulk Rename Utility: A free file renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria. Add date/time stamps, replace numbers, insert text, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and sub-folders….plus a whole lot more! CCleaner: A system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run [...]

Google Wave…the future of web-based personal communication/collaboration. Coming in late 2009.

Check out the evolution of answer-engine technology at Wolfram Alpha (tentatively scheduled to launch later this evening).

I’ve been playing with some software over the Christmas Holidays and I’m quite impressed with Digsby which is a multi-protocol IM (Instant Messaging) client.?On the never-ending quest for PC environmental simplification, I have used a number of multi-protocol IM clients over the years including;?Miranda,?Pidgin and?Trillian but never stuck with any of them. Up until a few weeks ago, I had been using?Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk (which alerted me to emails from my primary?Google Apps [...]