I’ve had an interest in playing piano for a long time — a time mostly spent with wishful thinking that I could play rather than actually learning something. Though, over the course of trying to learn, I’ve had opportunity to try out a few computer-based music notation apps. I think I’ve finally found what I’ve [...]
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Freakin’ Cool App of the Week: MuseScore
Posted in Freakin' Cool App of the Week, tagged music, open-source, software on November 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Freakin’ Cool (kind of) App of the Week: Revealing Passwords with JavaScript
Posted in Freakin' Cool App of the Week on November 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Old, yet useful. Works in numerous browsers, not just Firefox. Just copy and paste the provided JavaScript (available here) as the URL in a bookmark, and click the bookmark on a page with an asterisked password entry field. All shall be revealed.
They really need JavaScript to read minds..
Actually, since Firefox can reveal all your saved [...]
Freakin’ Cool App of the Week: Screenlets (+ Mini HOWTO: Possibly fix Screenlets startup issues)
Posted in Freakin' Cool App of the Week, Tech, Tips on July 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Looking for the HOWTO? Feel free to go right to it.
If you use Vista’s sidebar gadgets, you already know the essence of Screenlets. If you use OSX’s widgets or Yahoo! widgets, you already know the essence of Screenlets. Can you guess what it is yet?
Screenlets is a framework for such gadgets and gizmos on, you [...]
Freakin’ Cool App(s) of the Week: BVE and openBVE
Posted in Freakin' Cool App of the Week, Tech on May 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Consider me weird. Go ahead. I’m waiting. I’m looking forward to it actually. Bring da pain. Oh, wait, you don’t know why you should?
Because I like driving virtual trains.
For a long time I have been in search of a game similar to the Densha de GO! series, which I have been dying to play ever [...]
Freakin’ Cool App of the Week: StyleSelector
Posted in Freakin' Cool App of the Week, Tech, tagged Freakin' Cool App of the Week, GUI, StyleSelector, themes, Vista, Windows on November 26, 2008 | 24 Comments »
UPDATE: Since hsiw’s site has died, I’ve zipped and uploaded StyleSelector 1.06 onto MediaFire. It doesn’t include any styles. Link
Also, a commenter going by the name of ‘uploader’ has posted a link to both StyleSelector and FontSelector in a zip file. Link
Ok, so I was kinda getting sick of the annoying glass themes in Vista. [...]
Freakin’ Cool App of the Week: Vistalizator
Posted in Freakin' Cool App of the Week, Tech, tagged language, MUI, Vista, vistalizator, Windows on October 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Vistalizator is a program to change the UI language of Windows Vista using the MUI packs even if you don’t have the Ultimate or Enterprise editions. The MUI packs, by the way, are available online if you know where to look.
I love this program, for the simple fact that it counteracts Microsoft’s stupid decision to [...]