August 3, 2009
Isn’t timing everything? In the business (and also the personal) world, schedules are something to stick by. In communication, selecting the right time to communicate is sometimes the difference between a sizzle and a fizzle. For instance, I need to send forth an email to a different time zone at 6 AM in the morning. [...]
July 12, 2009
Google Updater is probably the only application from Google that does not have a face and is also not in your face. Because it runs periodically in the background. Google Updater is a part of the Google Pack (Google’s own apps and a few third party tools like Firefox, Norton Security Scan etc.). Google Updater [...]
April 26, 2009
PCs are marvelous tools, aren’t they? They can do so much for us, but they’re hardly the user-friendly home computers promised in science-fiction, which can follow any voice command and perform self-maintenance. It would be nice, at least, if your PC could at least do some things on its own. How about automatic weekly disk [...]
April 1, 2009
Marxio Timer allows you to control several aspects of your PC. It lets you do anything from turning off your computer to displaying certain text you’d like to remember later on. It’s a task manager/scheduler, reminder, alarm clock and more. This app tells your computer to execute tasks specified by you at the time you’d [...]
February 7, 2009
Ever wanted to connect/disconnect the Internet connection at particular times? Want to perform disk defragmentation on weekends when you are not working on your computer? Want to perform backups on 27th of each month? If you ever wondered how you could achieve that Linux style cron jobs on Windows and tried using the Windows task [...]
February 2, 2009
Have you ever done a thing repeatedly on your computer and wished that you could automate it and get it to run on its own? In Linux, the easiest way to schedule and automate a task is to use the crontab. This is a command line based application that allows you to execute commands or [...]
January 14, 2009
This oldie but goodie has been around since before the turn of the century….(yes I have been waiting patiently to say that one!) Freebyte Task Scheduler is a simple portable 219KB download, with no installation required (Windows only). It is an alternative task scheduler to Windows Scheduled Tasks which you can use to schedule any script, [...]
