Two essential apps to make Windows a little friendlier: ShortPopUp and ChangeIcon (or here). ShortPopUp is an app you put in the quick launch area of your task bar. It works a lot like the “Apple Menu” under older versions of the MacOS, enabling you to create hierarchical menus to quickly launch pretty much anything. [...]

Some thoughts on religion from jimformation.com, along with a lot of great quotes from Thomas Jefferson (good reading for those who would try to co-opt him).

It’s nice when a film you don’t expect anything from turns out to be good. Such was the case with the last two that I watched, Abandon and 8 Mile. Abandon is the directorial debut of Stephen Gaghan, who made his name for writing the screenplay for one of my favorite films, Traffic. 8 Mile [...]

I’m fairly handy with Adobe Premiere, but we recently got a copy of SonicFoundry’s Vegas, and I’m really impressed with it. It’s especially nice for me since I’m such a fan of Acid (their audio editing app). Vegas is like a lite version of Acid with a really powerful video editing layer on top. It’s [...]

My favorite text editor for Windows is EditPad Pro. Before I was willing to pony up my registration fee, I used EditPad Lite, which contains a good subset of features in the pro version. The makers have ported EditPad Lite to Linux and are in the process of porting the pro version as well. That’s [...]