Executor is a new player to the game of Windows quick launch applications.  With Executor you get a light footprint application that searches not only your start menu for applications but your documents and searches via keywords.  It is full of custom settings and also doubles as a hot-key application manager allowing you to setup any application to start with a certain hot-key combo.

Being partial to Launchy I found this program to be a little bloated and a little over configurable.  Not bloated in the sense it is too large just bloated in the sense of options they attempted to put into place.  The program is still in beta so I will keep an eye on it as it moves into GA and maybe they will clear up some of the bugs that I was seeing.  Also I really like the hotkey combo with Launchy of Alt-Spacebar to launch it where as with Executor I cannot choose that key combo.  The keywords are a nice touch but it is something else to setup independently and takes too much time.  Perhaps I am getting old and set in my ways but I think so far I will stick with Launchy’s quick easy interface and reliability.   Plus I am a big fan of my new skin for Launchy!

If you still want to check out Executor you can get it here.

These pictures are very interesting. The guy basically over exposes the pictures and uses very soft natural light to accent the images.  He picks some very interesting and textured objects to take pictures of.  Follow the link below to see his pictures.  Which apparently are now available in a book from Amazon.

Flickr Gallery

Globex has moved to their own servers and taken their styles off of stylish’s web site.  This is probably because of the great failure rates of the stylish’s web site.  To install the style follow the link below click either Gmail Redesigned or GCal redesign and then right click the stylish icon and go to ‘add file to stylish’  This way it will pick up all the changes as things happen on their site

Globex Redesigned Web site

Below are some (7) Database web sites that you can use to easily create forms and collect data online.  I am a huge fan of Zoho Creator and currently use that to manage my work log at work as it is quick and dirty and anything is better than Access!

Blist

Blist’s goal is to fool you into forgetting that underneath the glossy interface, there’s a relational database that the average user doesn’t know much about. I’ve always though that a great interface with average features is better than an app with great features and an average interface. I’m not talking aesthetics, either—but if something is designed well enough that it saves me both time and stress, I’m happy.

In terms of interface, Blist works somewhat like everyone’s favorite basic database, the spreadsheet. Displays are filtered using what’s called a lens—that and the form designer make it clear that Blist’s goal is to create “the database for the rest of us.”

Wufoo

Wufoo isn’t so much about a database that you populate: it’s a service that allows you to create quite attractive HTML forms so you can collect information from visitors to your site, without needing to learn a programming language to do it.

The advantages of an easy-to-use form designer is obvious in business when you wish to collect as much information from customers and clients as possible. In your personal life, a variety of applications exist but my favorite was when a friend used a web form to allow his Gmail contacts to fill in their address book entry for him after he lost their phone numbers.

Zoho Creator

Zoho Creator basically allows you to create simple database applications using a flashy AJAX interface and a lot of wizard goodness. It comes with plenty of templates, so you don’t need to start from scratch. There are free options, though they’re pretty limited—on the free Personal account, you can only create up to five applications, but that may suit your needs for a long time to come.

Some of the best features of Zoho Creator include the ability to embed your application in your Web site, and if you’re an advanced user, you can go beyond the wizard-style database designer using Zoho’s Deluge scripting language.

Coghead

Coghead is another offering that allows you to visually build web applications and goes far beyond simple forms. Of course, without becoming a programmer you can’t create any new web app that pops in your head, but Coghead makes it possible to realize quite a broad range of applications—especially databases for a variety of purposes—using the simple power of drag and drop.

Coghead also has start applications, like Zoho’s templates, including issue trackers and a CRM that you can expand on. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

Coghead features a great visual workflow editor that allows you to add functionality beyond data capture without using a scripting language. This is an excellent choice for those who want powerful business-oriented applications with a certain level of complexity but aren’t interested in programming at all.

Dabble DB

Dabble DB is another easy database application builder, with a reputation for being quick and easy to use—you can have a finished application ready in minutes flat. I didn’t have any trouble getting an app ready in minutes with the other web sites I tried, but Dabble DB’s process did seem to flow a little faster even if it didn’t quite have the same aesthetic pizzaz.

If you’re looking for a free service, give Dabble DB a skip. The only free option makes your content Creative Commons and visible to everyone and there’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but if you’re looking to build a database application chances are it’s to store private information like your friends’ or clients’ contact details.

TrackVia

TrackVia has a strong focus on taking your spreadsheets from Excel or what have you, and allowing you to turn them into powerful databases with its web service. It then allows you to create web forms and run email marketing campaigns from within its web app, so it’s got a very strong emphasis on business.

Furthering the suspicion that TrackVia is not for the personal user is the fact that there are no free accounts on offer. The cheapest plan with a monthly fee of $30 does offer quite a bit of room for your money—150,000 database records and 1 GB of file storage.

WyaWorks

WyaWorks is certainly not the prettiest web app on the block, but it has a slightly different focus on essentially the same thing that many of these start-ups are tackling: WyaWorks is about creating database applications for collaboration.

That focus on collaborative work is a definite plus and could be a selling point for many businesses, but for anyone to take it seriously, the programmers behind this app need to put more thought into the way it looks. The design is bad, but the interface is worse—if there’s one thing that this thing needs, it’s a coat of paint and a more usable and intuitive layout. Nobody would buy products from a handwritten catalogue, after all, and the web is no different (especially when you’re after business customers).

FormAssembly

FormAssembly is a form designer with a bunch of great features that are useful for the personal user, the business user and everyone in between. It provides email and RSS notifications, statistics including graphical charts and Excel export, as well as e-commerce features such as PayPal and Salesforce integration. You can use FormAssembly for just about anything that involves forms, including order forms.

While the focus on form designer apps is to get information from others, there’s nothing stopping you from using a FormAssembly or Wufoo form as a pseudo-database where you use the form to create records yourself.

There is a free version, though your forms will be ad-supported and there’s no auto-responder, secure forms nor file upload. In short, the features that business-oriented users will want to shell out for—I think the free plan works fine for the average user.

Well typically I have done my partitioning using a borrowed version of partition magic.  It looks like this software will do the same exact thing only it doesn’t cost anything.  This is really helpful for creating Linux partitions and cleaning off other partitions.  Sometimes I will change the file system on external drives which this makes it really easy to do.

EASEUS Partition Manager

I absolutely love this video! It goes to show you how far video game trailers/plots have come with the new generation of consoles!

So the basis of this game is a first person shooter.  You have multiple versions of the game that you can play.  You can play a game where you have a time trail and must make it through in a certain amount of time.  You can play a points game where you must hit a certain level of points to pass.  You have a scavenger hunt game where you have to shoot specific hidden targets.  And you have a death-match sort of game where you just try to stay alive for a certain time while confined to a small area.  This is a great game for polishing you aiming skills and quick reaction timing.

Bullets are plenty in this game and accuracy doesn’t count for anything so you can run around just shooting everything that moves.  The game is fun for a few hours but becomes very redundant after passing the first level as the other levels just repeat the skills with a slightly different backdrop.  Great shooter game for practicing for Call of Duty or Metal Gear Solid!

I was a little worried when this game and The Club came to me from Gamefly and the buy it now price was $13.99.  So I wasn’t expecting anything too crazy from either of these two games.  They did however provide enough entertainment that I would suggest both of them.  This game was very easy at some times and very difficult in others.  One of the hard parts in the game was to always keep your health level high.  This game is different then other games in the fact that you life runs down like a clock.  You have to keep it high for both fighting and staying alive.  There was one point in the game that I hit where I couldn’t pass because I couldn’t get my life high enough to finish the level and I would just drop dead in the same place.  This game provided a few hours of entertaining fun and then quickly an hour or two of high frustration which ended in me returning the game.

Kayak is a meta-search engine that will search all travel fairs and tell you the best deal for the money for your flight.  It then provides links directly to the selling site with all the information entered and all the flight prices set.  This is a great time saver when searching for the best flight deals.  Especially when flights have jumped crazy high lately.

Kayak Meta-Search for Flights

YES YES YES….its 1990 all over again, sitting in my bedroom with my dad playing this game, occasionally throwing a controller at the Nintendo because we kept dying!  When I heard that they released this game via PSN network download for $9.99 I was all over it.  The only thing I had to do was finish my final for school first before playing this game!

Graphics have obviously been updated and the weapons and the basis of the game stays the same, go back and forth and shoot everything without dying.  Once I realized there are a few other weapons other than just the guns I got a whole lot further.  Also love the ability to drop a bomb and kill everyone on the screen.  This game has lots of hours of play behind it and sticks to the arcade idea that when you die you have to start all over again regardless of the level you make it to.  That makes you hone in on your skills quickly so you can stay alive.  I would suggest this game to anyone who likes the arcade shooting style and something fun that lots of people can play with little skills required.