Cool Tools

Toggl – Time tracking that works

1 year ago

by jf in Cool Tools, Software

Recently I’ve been searching for a Time Tracking/Management tool that will allow me to monitor and report the time that I have been working on my task/projects. While searching on the web i found Toggl, as mention on the website:

Toggl is Time tracking that works. Get things done and turn your time into money. Track time with a single click, switch easily between different tasks and create reports.

I have been using it for a few month now and it’s really worst a try, the free version offers nearly all functionality that a time tracker needs. It has a windows agent that allows you to track your time directly from your desktop without event connecting to the website. And most of all it’s compatible with all major platforms (Windows/Mac/Linux/Mobile) !!!

Firefox 3.0 is out

3 years ago

by jf in Cool Tools, Web

Good news Firefox 3.0 is finally out !!!

Firefox Logo

You can have a taste of it: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Here is the official screen shot of Firefox 3.0 on Windows Vista

Browser Firefox Mozilla

Creating your South Park Avatar

3 years ago

by jf in Cool Sites, Cool Stuff, Cool Tools

So, you are a fan of South Park and you want a fancy avatar like mine. It’s quiet easy and free. Just to to the South Park Studios website. Where by the way you can view all the 174+ episodes of south park.

Now to go the Avatar Creation section. You will find below the procedure to create a fully fancy south park character. You can try it yourself afterwards.
Step 1: New Character

Click on the New Character button on the bottom of page and then choose your character charcteristics:

Female, Male, Canadian, 4th Grader, Kindergartner

Then click Select to go to the next step

Step 2: Choose your skin type

Step 3: Choose your accessories and be creative

Here are some random creation that i came up with you can download and use them as you wish.

If you want to post your creation here, don’t hesitate send them to me, I’ll gladly put them on this post.

Avatar South Park

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition 8.4.2

4 years ago

by jf in Cool Tools, Search Engine, Software, Web

Quoted from OmniFind website.

IBM and Yahoo! make information actionable with a simple,
no-charge enterprise search solution.

I have been able to play a few month with the OmniFind Yahoo! Edition from IBM, it’s quiet some powerful tool offered for free compared to the other search engines that are offered on the net such as Google Custom Search Business, Google Mini, ISYS Web, Mondo Search, and some other tools that are listed here(http://www.searchtools.com).

Here are the features of OYE (OmniFind Yahoo! Edition)

Search internal web sites, local and remote file systems, and the public web

Search up to 500,000 documents and 5 separate collections
Support for 200+ file types
Search in 30+ languages
Translated into 15 languages View Screen Shot

Intuitive out-of-the-box user interface with advanced features

Based on Yahoo! Search UI View Screen Shot
Easily customized with graphical tools to configure look-and-feel, UI elements, branding View Screen Shot
Spell suggestion
Full wildcard support

Increased relevancy of results

Configurable synonyms and featured links View Screen Shot
Tunable relevancy controls View Screen Shot
Top queries, no results, and result click through reporting to enable fine-tuning View Screen Shot

Easy to deploy, configure, and maintain

No prerequisites
3-click installer
1-click startup
Go from the installer to searching in minutes

Open and extensible

Built on Apache Lucene
Open URL-based APIs (REST)
Define, populate and search your own custom fields
Easily embeddable and customizable UI output (XML/XSTL/HTML, HTML snippets)

From my point of view the only inconvenience with this tool is that is not open for any plug in or add in functionalities. That could really help make it much much better for users. But again, this tool is complete and contains all the needed functionalities for an Entry Level Enterprise Search Engine.

Here are some screen shot of the new version of the new version of OmniFind that i just upgrade from the 8.4.1

OmniFind Search Engine

simpsonize me

4 years ago

by jf in Cool Tools, Web

After the release of the The Simpsons Movie, last July there are has been lots of site base upon it that have been release. One of them that I just found out is simpsonizeme.com, its a really cool website where you can make yourself a simpson character based on your own photo. I have tried it and here is the result.