Archive for the 'Tools' Category

Running old DOS applications with Hebrew support

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

A friend of mine called me yesterday and asked me if knew how to run old DOS applications with Hebrew on a modern machine. This might sound arcane to some of you, but there is an accounting program widely used in Israel called Hashavshevet. The company that developed that program released a new Windows based [...]

Beautiful Gadgets

Monday, November 13th, 2006

The gadget frenzy is catching on. Check out LabPIxies that makes some really nice looking gadgets.
This clock I added to my Google home page is just wonderfully done:

Many thanks to Benny for bringing this to my attention.

Printing to a PDF

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

I’ve been looking for a while for an easy way to create PDF documents out of different file formats. You can’t believe how many shareware programs are there that pose as a printer driver that allows you to print from any program to a PDF file. Just google for “print to PDF”.
However, none of those [...]

Pocketmod

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

I’ve see a lot of digital organizers, planners, PDA’s, and very smart mobile phones. But I’ve never seen anything so simple, smart and amazing at PocketMod.
This combination of origami and modern technology provides a really innovative and great way to organize your life. Just give it a try. All you need is 5 minutes and [...]

Console

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Console is a wonderful wrapper for the Windows command interpreter (cmd). It support all kinds of nice visual things like background images, transparency and docking. It even shows Hebrew files names correctly. And it is open sourced.
Don’t think I’ll ever go back to using that old cmd.exe again.

An iTunes alternative

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

It’s been a fairly long time since I’ve started using www.Allofmp3.com as my primary source for music, and I think it’s about time others know what a great sevice they provide.
Due to several loopholes in the Russian copyright laws it’s possible for this Moscow based company to provide legal mp3 download services for as [...]