Emad Ibrahim

Defragment your hard drive fast and free

I love free software (legally free). Here is a great utility that defragments your hard drive at blazing speeds and for free. I love it. The software is Auslogics Disk Defrag and it works in Vista. Get it at http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/ Related PostsVisualize your hard driveHere is a great utility for visualizing your hard drive to [...]

Visualize your hard drive

Here is a great utility for visualizing your hard drive to find what’s taking up all the space – WinDirStat and you can get it from http://windirstat.info/ I have tested it in Vista and it works very well and is extremely fast and did I mention that it is FREE… It displays folder sizes, file [...]

My first Mac

I just got my first mac ever. It’s a mac mini which I bought refurbished from Apple’s outlet store and paid $550 for it. I will be blogging about my experiences as I play with it. It’s hard to believe I am using mac, because I am a .net developer and a Microsoft fan. The [...]

Get Things Done with Outlook 2007

I start reading the Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity book and doing some research online about GTD. I love the concept which is really common sense (at least to me) and in one way or another I have been doing that all along. Anyhow, I needed to implement GTD using software, so [...]

Use Skype to setup a wakeup call in Vista

You can setup a wakeup call using Skype in Vista (and XP too)… Start Task Scheduler Click on “Create Basic Task” on the right hand side Go through the wizard Setup a name e.g. Wakeup for Bootcamp Setup the frequency e.g. Weekly Select schedule e.g. 6 AM, Monday through Friday Select “Start a program” Type [...]