Monitoring your PC

By the same author, Alex Buturuga, an ingenious piece of software lets us monitor and calculate many different things of our personal computer. It’s called Counter (http://stud.usv.ro/~alexbu/downloads/counter21.zip ).

Many times after we have been using our own PC for a long period of time we don’t know for certain how many hours have passed, or even if we want to know how long someone else on average has been working at our computer. Here comes in Counter, which gives us all this information and more. If we want to calculate how much money we are spending on electricity while the PC is working, clicking on Show Calculator we can calculate that cost. First it calculates an average as 60% of the maximum power consumption of the PC, then it multiplies this figure with the watts per hour cost that our power company charges, which we must enter. In this way we will have a clear picture of the money we are spending working with our personal computer.

As time goes by we will have a way of knowing more about our daily use of the PC at the Statistics section where we can monitor additional parameters.

We also have the option to change skins clicking on Use Modern Skins to give it a more attractive look.

Simple and accurate, this program is truly useful. UD.

Keyboard Tweaking (for Windows)

Believe it or not there still are a few new features we can add to our old keyboard by way of a very easy to use and smart software: Keyboard Tweaker, (http://stud.usv.ro/~alexbu/downloads/keyboard23.zip ). Many of us usually use theses simple keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+Alt+Del to open the Task Manager, Ctrl+C to copy, Ctrl+X  to cut, and  Ctrl+V to paste. Keyboard Tweaker, lets us program our keyboard to open up the programs we use most, like Excel ,Word , and so forth. Once installed we will see that there are 20 preconfigured shortcuts, most of which are all we will ever need. But anyway, we can program our own to avoid using the mouse all the time. To configure our own custom shortcuts we click on Hotkeys where we select New, here is where we will create a new shortcut.

We can also access executable files, open any file with any extension such as MP3, JPG, URLs, e-mails, etc. We can do anything with Execute that the Windows command Execute does (Start > Execute), such as accessing the Registry, etc.

This software is freeware but we need to register first in order to be able to use it.

A clever little program to get our hands off the mouse. UD.