Text messaging saves unneeded overhead from short conversations like “Where are you?” or “Are you coming tonight”? A couple of days ago I almost sent out an embarrassing text message with my Nokia 6103. I wanted to ask someone if they “Could bring the plates,” but instead almost sent “Could you bring the slaves?” (more…)

AutoHotkey (AHK) is a simple, open-source automation tool for Windows users. Ever needed to automate a backup that doesn’t have a built in scheduler and only supports visual actions, remap keys and buttons on a keyboard or mouse, a text expander (btw => "by the way"), or put together simple key combination shortcuts? AHK can help you accomplish all of those tasks. (more…)

The issue has been resolved and Scroggles! is back in all its glory to its blog reading / commenting / posting state.

Become more productive by freeing yourself of the start menu or having to navigate to your Desktop to bring up your favorite programs. Launchy is an open source keystroke launcher for Windows which allows you to execute any program, Internet shortcut, music file, document, and anything. (more…)

Today, I happened upon an Obama video on YouTube of him defending several comments that he had made about small town people being bitter and hanging on to things like religion, gun laws, and no same-sex marriages. I was just about to close the tab when I noticed that on the right side of the YouTube page under the comments there was a Google Checkout Contribute box. Nifty, convenient, and helpful, but do the other Presidential Candidates have it on their videos? (more…)

Gmail Custom Time allows users to send emails with a custom time (Now, 1 hour ago, 6 hours ago, Other…). User feedback has shown uses like claiming "first-come, first-serve" tickets after they were already "temporarily" awarded. Custom Time’s slogan is "Be on time, Every time*". "Every time*" means ten because Google’s researches have concluded that… (more…)

The other day I was asked to write out the basic algorithm for reversing a string. I could do it in whatever language I wanted; I chose PHP. I knew that in Ruby you can just do strvar.reverse, but I didn’t quite remember if PHP had a simple single function to accomplish this. It does, but there are many different combinations too.

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Have you ever desired to visit a site or search a site without typing in the entire web address or visiting the site first? Bookmarks in Firefox can be assigned simple keywords to make browsing and searching quicker. The feature of Bookmark Keywords has been available for a while now, but many people have not taken advantage of it. All you need is the free Internet browser Firefox! (more…)

Convert, rename, resize, adjust contrast, and much more with many photos all at once with FastStone’s Photo Resizer. Occupying only ~1Mb of disk space this tool is perfect for your computer or to carry around on a flash drive. Did I mention it is free!? I use it to convert, lighten, rotate, and resize photos when I need to send people notes that I have "photo-scanned." (more…)

The storage of precious photographs, college papers, work documents, and archived music of old records filled your computer’s hard drive in 2007. Don’t lose it all when your hard drive suddenly crashes and you are greeted with the Blue Screen of Death! This new year 2008, schedule your PC to automatically run a backup of your files onto an external hard drive, a network computer, or your own web server using free software, SyncBack Freeware. (more…)