Carlos' Cool Corner: Computers and Internet

FreeHostia Free webhosting service

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:29:11 GMT


	FreeHostia is a web hosting service which has a free option as long as you don't need more of of 250Mb of space and 5Gb of bandwidth every month. I am using it to host my online movie collection and I can say that it is a reliable service. Click here and select its free plan to have a go. If you need a free host for a website then I highly recommend it :). Let's see if the joke below make you smile ;) Life without Computer: An application was for employment A program was a TV show A cursor used profanity A keyboard was a piano! Memory was something that you lost with age A CD was a bank account And if you had a 3 ½ inch floppy, You hoped nobody found out! Compress was something you did to garbage, not something you did to a file And if you unzipped anything in public, you'd be in jail for awhile! LOL PS: I will be back blogging in two weeks but in the mean time I will be replying comments.

Browser spell checkers

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:49:26 GMT

First the Internet made the computer cool by enabling you to see information only either rich or very important person could see before, now web 2.0 made the computer cooler by allowing you to leave comments and interact with those who publish information in other words you write on the net to publish information and/or comment on others and here is where we need an spell checker lol and we need it in the browser we use:
For IE7 users you can download ieSpell which is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell-checks text-input boxes on a Web page. Even if your Web application already includes spell-checking functionality, this utility is faster than a server-side solution. Plus, you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications instead of having to maintain separate ones on each application.
For Firefox 2 users have not problems as this browser has in-line spell checker (after right clicking the first time to download the dictionary to use).

PS: We are having a lot of fun with the daily movie quiz, click here to join us :)

A wiki about free online tools

Tue, 06 May 2008 08:55:13 GMT

A wiki is a computer software often used to create collaborative websites , the best example is the highly successful Wikipedia, now guess what? I created one, last year, with the goal of having a great directory of free online tools which are useful for your Live Space :

http://live-spaces-tools.wikispaces.com/

If you have not seen it yet, then check it out and let me know your opinion, If you join in then you will be able to add new pages and participate in discussions about the wiki itself or about any free tool. I already added a few and I will keep adding more down the track. However, it will not become a great and useful resource only with my input but with the effort of all. Thus, any new page contribution and/or linking will be highly appreciated, no only for me but at the end of the day, for the whole Live Spaces community ;).

In other order of ideas, my cool Space friend Kathy just updated her blog with new information and particularly about a cute Teddy bear of her making. Click here to pay her a visit and if you do then tell her that I sent you ;)

PS: Once again, thanks to Xena for the cool wiki logo :)

Cool Computer links and Dawn's Tag

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:04:05 GMT


	Time for some cool computer links: Click here for 14 Fantastic Freeware Finds (includes IE pro) and here for 20 great Firefox extensions. Guess what? I have been tagged by Dawn about my 6 unspectacular quirks lol: * I am easy like Sunday morning * Have to go to the Gym at least 3 times a week * Love to drink "red bull" lol * Like to write poetry * Sometime I laugh too loud Ha Ha * Spend a lot of time with the computer, maybe too much lol Please feel free to take this tag and if you do , then I appreciate to let me know by a comment to check it out ;)

The Reflet Freeware software

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:16:49 GMT

Reflet (click here to download it) is a freeware program written by Antonio Da Cruz (second cousin of Xena) useful to make reflections of your pictures as shown in this table. It is a walk in the park to use it, just crop any picture half of the final desired size after reflection, open it in reflet, click the movie the icon and then export it. This was the very first graphic tip that Xena showed me , two years ago, and I wanted to bring it to this Space too as I have been asked many times before about it. For the ones who did not know it, enjoy!

Movie Collector Software

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:40:04 GMT

One of my hobbies is to watch movies on DVD in my home entertainment system, I rent and also have my own collection which is over 250 DVDs. I used to have an excell spreadsheet to keep track of them for insurance reasons but it was difficult to keep up to date because I had to key in all the fields until my office mate recommended me Movie Collector from Collectorz (This table picture is a screenshot as it looks in my PC). This software was so easy to use that allowed me to enter my whole collection in one weekend and even published on the web (I had to provide the host) as you can see here ( You can browse it by alphabetic order and click in the picture to read detailed information). It has a free trial license to enter up to 50 DVDs but I paid very happily 34 US$ to have the pro version (I received a voucher that took 5US$ off of the normal price). CollectorZ also has software to keep tracks of your books if you have many too, my office mate is very happy with the latter one :). Anyway how many movies DVDs movies do you have?

In regarding to the last Live Spaces upgrade

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:26:23 GMT

The last MSN upgrade brought us the common friends and the skydrive for markets such as the Australian however also took away the list descriptions (This last bit really bothered me). Well the MSN staff , listening feedback from customers, just brought the list descriptions back and also now you can select who are the friends who can show their updates in your admin home page , are you now happy?

Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:21:33 GMT

Knowing a few keyboard shortcuts can really increase your productivity while working with your Windows PC, my favourites are as follow:

Windows System Key Combinations:

F1: help
CTRL + ESC : Open Start Menu
ALT + TAB : Switch between open programs

Windows Program Key Combinations:

CTRL + C : Copy
CTRL + V: Paste
CTRL + Z: Undo
CTRL + X: Cut

For more click here

Of course there are some who customise their own keys to increase productivity at work ;)