January 26, 2016

RightNote Professional 50% off at BitsDuJour

If you previously missed this offer and want to get a great note taking, word processing and spreadsheet combo, then you have another chance to pick up RightNote Professional for 50% off. I’ve been working with RightNote for a while now and it’s a very useful and dare I say a competent replacement for Word and Excel. RightNote goes beyond just note taking and offers a fully functional writing environment. You can easily compose short notes or full documents. If you were so inclined, it would be easy to rough out an outline for a long document and then dive in and compose the whole thing in RightNote. It’s not a substitute for Scrivener, but it’s a great writing environment that comes with a vast array of features. I’ve since switched away from OneNote to RightNote and it’s working very well for me. And for today, you can pick up the Standard or Professional version for 50% off. It’s well […]

January 7, 2016

A peek at Process Lasso, and is Free really, free?

I don’t have Process Lasso installed, nor have I ever used it. But you can’t read a review about DimmDrive or CPU Cores without seeing that name pop up time and time again, and almost always within a negative Steam review. It comes across as the Holy Grail of computer tuning and since it’s free, it’s the only tool you need. Of course, I had to check it out. What features do you get for free and how free is free? Process Lasso does come with a sweet set of features to balance processor usage, control ram usage, CPU affinity and process optimization as well as gaming profiles. I have to agree, those are the same features in CPU Cores and Core Tuner and the product is free, so why bother with a paid product? Free is fleeting and many features of Process Lasso are available for a limited time only. After the 30 day trial, the following are disabled: […]

December 29, 2015

Rocket League – Making it to the playoffs in the first season

I’ve brought a new game into my stable and it’s one that I passed over the first time I saw it. I’m a big fan of racing games, but the idea of combining that with soccer just seemed a little too far out in left field for me. Sure, it looked amusing, but not quite amusing enough. Jump ahead to the Steam Winter Sale and Rocket League is on sale and it has scores of reviews tacked on to it. With over 30,000 reviews it still has an Overwhelmingly Positive rating. How the hell can that be? Ok, let me have another look. And then let me have a real look by checking out some of the videos on YouTube. As with so many of these games, the only reason they’re good is because of the multiplayer, and as I’ve stated, I don’t play multiplayer. However, quite a few reviews are about single player and the AI is apparently decent […]

December 26, 2015

Time to throw away Freemake

Even though I think the Freemake tools, VideoDownloader and VideoConverter, are pretty good, they have to be removed. Both Norton Internet Security and SuperAntiSpyware are throwing alerts every time they scan these files. In fact, Norton quarantines the latest versions as soon as they’re downloaded. They don’t enjoy me trying to put OpenCandy on my machine. It’s a real shame too since I paid for VideoConverter. But even though I have a key, there is no OpenCandy free download for me and it still tries dump it’s payload on my hard drive. Not good. I understand Freemake needs to support themselves, but there has to be a better way. Let me buy the app so I can have a clean copy. Or at least let me put in the key and not riddle my machine with your ads. It was a good ride while it lasted, but Freemake needs to change their model. Clearly you aren’t going to make any […]

December 23, 2015

RightNote – A $15 replacement for Word and Excel?

Now, Word and Excel are extremely large and extremely powerful programs, but to be honest, people use maybe 5% of the features, if that. You literally end up paying and arm and a leg for a piece of software that does more than you will ever need. Most of us make up a quick document with a couple or bold items, a few bullet points and maybe a heading or two. In Excel, it’s a couple of columns, most likely some sort of budget and that’s it. We aren’t doing desktop publishing, nor are we setting up an account ledger, so why pay for all that nonsense? But here is a neat alternative – RightNote. The RightNote editor has all the basic features of Word and Excel built right in. You can create a formatted document with the standard bold, italic and underline, along with headers and styles as well as inserting a table if you need it. Then there […]

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