Review of Life » PC related http://www.reviewoflife.com stuff from someone Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:07:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Free always-on-top program for Windows http://www.reviewoflife.com/free-always-on-top-program-for-windows.htm http://www.reviewoflife.com/free-always-on-top-program-for-windows.htm#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:22:50 +0000 kendomonkey http://dev.reviewoflife.levelpurple.com/?p=109 I was looking for a way to keep one window (in my case, Chrome – I wanted the labels part of the GMail website visible so I knew when new emails had come in) on top of all others and…

]]> I was looking for a way to keep one window (in my case, Chrome – I wanted the labels part of the GMail website visible so I knew when new emails had come in) on top of all others and I still find it really difficult to understand why this functionality to go “always on top” with any program, isn’t built into the Microsoft Windows GUI.

Seems obvious to me!

Anyhoo, I installed a few and thought I’d recommend the free one I found that DOES do the job, it’s called DeskPins:

Find the website here

It’s great – has allowed me to do EXACTLY what I want, which is to effectively pin Chrome to the right hand side of my screen. Yay! Thank you!

Hope that’s useful.

]]> http://www.reviewoflife.com/free-always-on-top-program-for-windows.htm/feed 0 Using my laptop with an external keyboard http://www.reviewoflife.com/using-my-laptop-with-an-external-keyboard.htm http://www.reviewoflife.com/using-my-laptop-with-an-external-keyboard.htm#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:28:14 +0000 kendomonkey http://dev.reviewoflife.levelpurple.com/?p=124 Keyboard for laptopMy laptop’s broken. Its keyboard was accidentally subject to a pint of orange juice and after a drying and washing period, it turned out that half the keyboard didn’t want to work at all, whilst the other half worked a…

]]> Keyboard for laptopMy laptop’s broken. Its keyboard was accidentally subject to a pint of orange juice and after a drying and washing period, it turned out that half the keyboard didn’t want to work at all, whilst the other half worked a bit too well and duplicated keystrokes.

So, instead I’m having to put up with using an external USB keyboard which has its own issues. It’s OK, but the whole point of a laptop is that it’s portable and not clunky… right now I’m having to carry around a keyboard which doesn’t even fit in my laptop bag and juts out.

There’s not much to say really, using an external USB keyboard (this one happens to be a Dell by the way) is hardly the bane of my life, but it is a bit of a pig.

I’ll give the keyboard a pretty impressive 8/10 – it’s functional, the keys are nice and springy and the spacing of the letters is all good.

I’ll give the experience on the whole a dismal 3/10 – it’s a pain, I don’t like using an external USB keyboard.

Overall then: 5/10. Done!

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