Web Talk

If you are a webmaster and you own a blog or a website you know very well how painful can be to create a .htaccess, above all if you don’t know or remember all the codes you have to put into the file. That’s why you may wish somebody or something to make the “dirty job” for you. Well, with .htaccess editor you can forget how to create a .htaccess file! In fact, as the name of the web application suggests, within the website you can find a simple text editor that will help you create the file. A full set of options and codes are available such as: deny, allow, basic autentication, error page default page etc. To try if you don’t want to get crazy trying to figure out what code you don’t remember!

Some time ago we spoke about Issuu that lets you covert your documents into nice magazines to browse online. Today, I want to speak about another online application that, like Issuu, lets you convert your documents…into something different and more Web 2.0. In fact with iPaper you can create fully customizable flash widgets with your personal documents. No matter what format your documents are (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenOffice ecc.), iPaper will change them into something that can be compared with YouTube videos. Try it now!

How many times have you wished to create a logo, a font or a button in a snap, but without any heavy, expensive software? If you are a webmaster you know very well what I am talking about. If instead you are a regular user sometimes you may wish to add to your documents a nice logo or just invent a new font. The problem with all of these needs of yours is the software. Again. Well, today with Cooltext you can create whatever you want in a breeze and with no need to buy any software. In fact Cooltext is an online logo, font, button generator that will amaze you for its effectiveness and its easiness. You have lots of options to play with: font size, background, shadows, file format, text color, shape, effect are just a few example. What are you waiting for. Try Cooltext now!

As you know, Microsoft with its new Office 2007 has introduced the new .docx format for its documents, with the main purpose of getting rid of the old .doc. The main issue of this new format is that it is not compatible with older Office versions. As you may imagine, a lot of users or I’d better say, most of the users still use old Office versions or worse, other editor software that can not open the .docx format. That’s where Docx2Rtf comes to help us. This little freeware software lets us retrieve all the information stored in those documents and convert them into .rft documents. You can even decide to convert these files into .PDF! Docx2Rtf is a freeware application for Word 2007 Docx and OpenOffice Sxw and Odt files. The latest versions can even read .prc and .pdb format that are used by a lot of Palm powered devices. Download Docx2Rtf, the Docx Converter now!

Update: If you don’t want to download any program, but you still need a docx converter you can always use an online application. If you want to know more about online text editor applications click here.

If you have a Wifi connection and/or a Wifi router you know only too well how weak sometimes a wifi signal can be. So weak that your computer doesn’t even manage to grab it. This may be due to the fact that you live or work in a place where the walls are too tick, or there are some interferences blocking and deviate the signal such as iron bars and other metals. Other times instead it is some unknown radio signals messing with your wifi. It may be also your wifi router that it’s so cheap that if your neighbor turns on its radio, you can weave goodbye your idea of spending the whole day surfing and relax. Luckly for us there some guys that don’t sleep at night to invent something to solve our problems! Build your own superpowerful wifi antenna as cheap as $10 and surf wherever you want now!

TDK has just announced the new pen drive that has nothing new to tell you the truth, but that is nice and fascionable. Its size is small, as usual, just 32 x 15 x 8 mm and its weight around 3gr. It will be available in three flavours namely: 1, 2 e 4 GB. No word about the release date or its price. By the way, this new pen drive reminds me of something I have already seen… Good the idea to use as case something that reminds the old TDK cassette case. Nice!

If you have a lot of files such as: documents, movies, Mp3, games and the list could go on and on, then you may feel the urge to backup everything, before something bad happens to your computer (and to you too!). That’s why at a certain point of your life you buy an external hard disk! The old motto saying: “backup early, backup always” is really true for those people (and to me too) who don’t want to loose any important or unimportant data. That’s where ClickFree HD 700 comes to help us. This little, really little baby let’s you save everything you want in a few seconds! Apart from the fact that it is really small ( just 11,48 x 7,60 x 1,70 cm), ClickFree HD 700 is equipped with a HD SATA da 2,5″ whose storage capability is 120GB and with a speed of 5400RPM! The case is powerd witha USB 2.0 which means that you don’t have to get any external power source to make it works, since it gets all the power it wants from the PC itself. But the real power of this external hard disk is due to its program that doesn’t require any installation. Just plug the drive in and ClickFree will backup the whole content of your computer, recognizing at the same time about 350 different file formats. Of course it is compatible with Windows Vista and XP. Its price is not bad, about $169 and if you want to buy it right away follow this link.

Would you like to draw on the fly, while you are walking along the street or while you are doing something else? Do you wish to take quick sketches or write something fast without loosing any time to look for a block note or a piece of paper? Do you have a Nintendo DS? Wait a second! What the heck does Nintendo DS have to do with drawing? Well, actually it has to do more than you thought! As a matter of fact, thanks to a simple, small homebrew application, you can turn your little console into a notebook to write and draw whatever you like! The application is called DS Notes and of course it is freeware. Reading from the forum where it was posted:”DSNotes is an application for the Nintendo DS, designed to provide a way to quickly jot down and save notes or small sketches. The program has been designed for lightning-quick saving, browsing, and loading of notes (stored as black and white bitmaps, each only 6kb in size). You can check out the readme.txt for more info.” Download it now!

If you want to download the application click here. Remember, to use this homebrew application you have to own a slot such as R4. Read more about homebrew here.