Everything is Crap » utilities http://everythingiscrap.com Notes on the crap we've been subjected to Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:10:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Automated IIS WordPress Installer from Microsoft http://everythingiscrap.com/automated-iis-wordpress-installer-from-microsoft/ http://everythingiscrap.com/automated-iis-wordpress-installer-from-microsoft/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:51:44 +0000 paul http://everythingiscrap.com/?p=477

Now that I know how to do it, I'm getting fed up with LAMP as a web platform. I much prefer Windows. (What can I say? I'm a Windows guy!) And I recently stumbled into the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. It makes installing WordPress embarrassingly simple. Just run the installer and it does everything for you. For instance: I made a website in IIS, then ran the installer and it…

  • installed PHP,
  • installed MySQL,
  • installed WordPress,
  • and installed a couple other bits and pieces for IIS.

From what I understand, it would have installed IIS if it wasn't already installed. And that's not all it installs either: Joomla, Umbraco, phpBB, DotNetNuke, MS SQL Express, and a lot of others. It's great and, more importantly, it works. With the Web Platform Installer I've gone from barely being able to get WordPress to work on Windows/IIS to stupidly simple installs that take about 5 minutes. Literally! It's great!

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If you have big, fancy, transparent graphics and you want to make them into one of those fancy, new, Windows-7-style icons, then just go get IcoFX. Super simple. Highly recommended.

]]> http://everythingiscrap.com/icofx-rocks-your-icons/feed/ 0 Instant Eyedropper, for all your eyedropper needs http://everythingiscrap.com/instant-eyedropper-for-all-your-eyedropper-needs/ http://everythingiscrap.com/instant-eyedropper-for-all-your-eyedropper-needs/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:45:25 +0000 paul http://everythingiscrap.com/?p=328 Instant Eyedropper is a handy little application that sits in the system tray. It allows you to grab colors from photos, webpages… everything on the screen. Find it here:

http://instant-eyedropper.com/

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]]> http://everythingiscrap.com/systeminfo-is-great/feed/ 0 HeavyLoad, from the makers of TreeSize (Both Free!) http://everythingiscrap.com/heavyload-from-the-makers-of-treesize-both-free/ http://everythingiscrap.com/heavyload-from-the-makers-of-treesize-both-free/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:55:00 +0000 paul http://piotrouble.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/heavyload-from-the-makers-of-treesize-both-free
I knew that Jam Software made the great little freebie application called TreeSize that will analyze folder and file sizes to tell you where all of the space on your hard drive is being used. But, I just found another great little freebie app from them called HeavyLoad. It stresses the RAM, CPU, Hard Drive, Network and/or operating system of your PC to help you determine how your system will perform under heavy load. Great little piece of troubleshooting software. Thanks Jam!

]]> http://everythingiscrap.com/heavyload-from-the-makers-of-treesize-both-free/feed/ 0 Quick System Inventory Util http://everythingiscrap.com/quick-system-inventory-util/ http://everythingiscrap.com/quick-system-inventory-util/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 17:29:00 +0000 paul http://piotrouble.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/quick-system-inventory-util

The How-To Geek strikes again with another great utility recommendation. This one does a short, fast, and to-the-point utility to get an inventory for a PC. It's very neat what it's able to tell you about your own computer.

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Hooray for SharePoints!

OS X (workstation) does not allow you to share individual folders. So if the folder you want to share doesn't reside in your profile directory, you're out of luck. SharePoints allows you to share individual folders regardless of their location on your mac. It support AFP (Mac sharing) and SMB (Windows sharing), and it's free!

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