TouchTerm Puts a Terminal Client on Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download]

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Kevin Purdy.
Categories: Contributors.

iPhone/iPod touch only: With Mocha VNC Lite, iPhone and iPod touch users already have a tool for connecting remotely to their desktops, but what about those who like to get things done over a command line? Free iPhone app TouchTerm provides SSH-encrypted terminal access to any Linux, OS X, or even Windows system running a server, making mobile rebooting or service starting over Wi-Fi or EDGE/3G connections possible. The app supports landscape mode, a must for serious two-thumb typing, can save connections for easy access. The $11.99 pro version adds advanced gesture and copy/paste support, amongst other features, but the basic free edition can get the job done. TouchTerm is a free download for iPhones and iPod touch models running the 2.0 firmware only.

TouchTerm [iTunes App Store via Linux.com]


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Create a Live-Booting XP CD or DVD [How To]

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Kevin Purdy.
Categories: Contributors, Windows.

The creators of the previously mentioned, versatile CD/DVD burning tool CDBurnerXP have posted a guide in their forums to using the program to create a live-booting Windows XP (or 2000/2003) disc. It's a multi-step process that involves a lot of settings to tweak, but at the end you should have a Windows desktop that loads straight from the boot. If you're going to roll your own live-boot XP, you might want to get familiar with trimming it down to the bare essentials for faster loads, or slipstreaming your installation to avoid Windows Update nags that will, frankly, never go away. I haven't given it a thorough test yet, but online forum users seem to give it the thumbs up. Let us know your experience with live-booting XP in the comments.

Creating bootable Windows 2000/XP/2003 Disc (CDBurnerXP 3) [via Confessions of a Freeware Junkie (Delicious)]


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30 Cliches You Should Basically Avoid (Going Forward) [Writing]

Posted on by Kevin Purdy.
Categories: Contributors.

Using a data analysis tool that monitors new books, research papers, broadcast transcripts and news sources, Oxford University came up with a list of the top 10 most irritating phrases. Headed by "At the end of the day" and capped with "It's not rocket science," it's both an eye-rolling exercise in familiarity and a good lesson in phrases to avoid in your own presentations and writing. The readers of the BBC's online magazine, however, add to the list with their own 20 most hated cliches, and while a few are British peculiarities, the majority make for good additions to add to your personal spelling checker or text replacement tool. What meaningless (or management-friendly) words drive you up the wall? Share your distaste in the comments. Photo by StaR DusT.

20 of your most hated cliches [BBC News Magazine via Lifehacker AU]


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Hot Corners Adds Actions to Desktop Corners [Featured Windows Download]

Posted on by Kevin Purdy.
Categories: Contributors, Windows.

Windows only: Hot Corners, a free utility for Windows desktops, adds the "hot corners" abilities of OS X's Expose system to any Windows desktop. The system tray utility can assign actions like minimizing all windows, locking a system, showing the My Documents folder, and others to any corner of the screen you run your cursor into. There's also a "Mouse Move" feature for those who'd like fewer accidental actions which requires holding the Windows and X keys while dragging the cursor before acting. Hot Corners has shown up a few times in our Desktop Show and Tell sessions, and while it lacks the full-fledged Mac-cloning features of DExposE2, it's pretty handy for being so small. Hot Corners is a free download for Windows systems only.

Hot Corners [via gHacks]


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Google SketchUp 7 Released [3D]

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Kevin Purdy.
Categories: Contributors, Windows.

Google released this morning its seventh edition of SketchUp for Windows and Mac systems, the free 3D modeling tool that topped our list of Top 10 Google products you forgot all about. New to this edition are tools for collaborating and sharing models and objects through the 3D Warehouse, automatic tools for beginners, and lots of other tweaks. What do you use SketchUp for? Tell us in the comments. [via]


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