Mouse Gestures for Google Chrome with StrokeIt

The one thing I REALLY miss with Google Chrome is the lack of mouse gesture support. StrokeIt appears to solve the problem. Basically, StrokeIt adds mouse gestures for any Windows application.� First I had to delete the default Global Actions for Up and Down. Then I added new actions and associated them with the proper …

DriveGLEAM is a cool system monitoring tool

I connect remotely to my PC and often wished I could see my disk activity. I did a little searching and stumbled upon DriveGLEAM. Among many things it will indicate read/write activity for your hard drives in the system tray. I also enabled the memory usage indicator. By default it shows separate icons for monitornig …

HDMI is stupid

HDMI is a crazy standard. After hooking up my AV receiver to my new LCD flat panel via HDMI, you would think that everything connected to my receiver would play perfectly, right? From my cablebox’s component output all the way down to my aging standard def digital recorder. Well, no go. The ONLY thing that …

Audiobook application for the Nokia N95

Nokia Beta Labs has a cool application that will convert audiobook WAV or MP3 files to something that works with their S60 audiobook player. It's available here. Each file is treated as a chapter and the filename is used as the chapter's title. No support for ID3 tags. You'll need to remember this because the …