It’s Sunday, and you know what that means, the fourth edition of the new “Bryan’s Pick” Bryan’s Pick is a usefull and time saving program that I recommend for anyone all ages that makes things in life a little easier.
If you are a true geek, then you love tweaking, monitoring, setting, and analizing (even if everything is fine) your computer system. Face it, we all love to do it, and there is no better and easier way of doing this with my pick of this week
Imagine a program that will sit at the top of your screen, almost non-noticable, that will monitor your CPU, memory usage, volume, resolution, the exact time, play your tunes, search google, and even retrieve your favorite news headlines….for free. This week’s pick is WinBar, for Windows (sorry Mac fans, you’ve got widgets) WinBar will do all as mentioned plus more features and add-ons
PROS: WinBar is definatly one of the best freeware programs that there is. WinBar will let you do anything and everything. It runs very quietly on your system too, using up very little CPU resources, at least on my system, I haven’t tested it on slower machines. It will monitor CPU usage, uptime, memory usage, disk usage, lock keys, battery (for a laptop) resolution, play your tunes on Winamp, clock, quick launch, volume, tracker, email, on-line state, time sync, google search, and a DU meter. Wow, that’s certainly a lot, and I don’t know if you could ask for more.
CONS: No Bugs, no crashes, no errors, no problems. This application is flawless and I cannot find an error/problem even if I tried. There is only one thing that I wish they had, which is a custom newsfeed. They only allow you to download certain feeds, which is the only downfall. Other than that, it’s definatly worth every penny
WinBar is a free download at an unbelievably small 0.39MB. Check it out! That’s Bryan’s Pick for the week of July 20th. Check back next Sunday for another software review! Bryan Roy, GeekNews Central
Curious thing about Desktop Sidebar: It misrepresents my Outlook appointment start times by exactly an hour. For instance, if I enter a dental appointment in Outlook from, say, 1 to 2 p.m. on any given day, my Sidebar will tell me that I’ve got a dental appoinment from 2 to 3 p.m. I can’t figure out what’s producing the discrepancy.
Any ideas?
Regards
Wow, way to spam. :/ Feel free to delete those additional posts, I dunno what happened.
Wow, way to spam. Sorry, feel free to del those add’l posts. :/
Check out Desktop Sidebar ). I tried WinBar too and thought it was neat for about two weeks, then I found this and it’s not even in the same ballpark. It doesn’t have ALL the same monitoring tools, but it has a lot more. Definitely check it out.
Check out Desktop Sidebar ). I tried WinBar too and thought it was neat for about two weeks, then I found this and it’s not even in the same ballpark. It doesn’t have ALL the same monitoring tools, but it has a lot more. Definitely check it out.
Check out Desktop Sidebar ). I tried WinBar too and thought it was neat for about two weeks, then I found this and it’s not even in the same ballpark. It doesn’t have ALL the same monitoring tools, but it has a lot more. Definitely check it out.
Yeah, I have a knoppix cd, which i love to go into some days..
heh, you’re right. Well, 95% do