On my office computer, Windows Explorer has been doing funny things, such as dropping the "Date Modified" column. So I've been looking around for free and improved alternatives, and have come across freeCommander, and I like it. So far, it has been working without problems on my Windows XP machine, and I like the Norton Commander-style dual panels and one-key copy and move functions.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
And some more geekery
One of the hottest new free programs for academics is zotero, essentially a firefox plugin that serves as a bibliographical database. So far, it's available only for Firefox 2.0, which is available as a beta. I gave it a trial run - importing an Endnote database, formating a couple of references - and the programs works just fine, better than other free bibliographical tools I've tried so far. The program is being developed at George Mason University, with the support of various grants, and if it does what it promises to do (online sharing of databases, integration with Word...), it will be a real competition for Endnote et al. For now, it is definitely a useful tool for students who write a couple of term papers a year and want something that spits out a list of references in APA format... (See also the Lifehacker post on zotero.)
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if you want to try something really different for windows (and by different i mean geeky), try BlackBox. If you haven't heard of it, it is a different shell than the typical windows explorer shell and provides much more open source customization oppurtunities as well as what I feel is a better user interface...although that might just be because of its highly customizable nature. search for it (bblean in google will bring you there), try it if you are so inclined.
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