Enable Night-Reading Mode with iOS

To enable a dimmed “night” display mode for any application with an iOS device, tap the Settings icon and choose General –> Accessibility –> Triple-click Home and and set it to “Toggle White on Black.”

Press the Home button to exit Settings and launch any reading app.  Triple-click the Home button in quick succession and it should enable white-on-black effect.  Triple-click again to switch back to the default normal mode.  The main downside is that images (both within apps and on the web) will look like photographic negatives instead of normal photographs.

Copy Output from Command Line Applications to the Clipboard

With Windows Vista and 7, an option is available to copy output from the command line to the Clipboard by piping it into the clip command:

command | clip

Below is an example of copying the output of the tasklist command to the Clipboard.

The contents of a file can be piped into the Clipboard by reserve.

clip < filename

The example below copies the contents of the file test.txt to the Clipboard.

VMware ThinApp

VMware’s ThinApp solution creates an executable from one or more applications without the requirement of a client agent.  This program is normally used within a virtual desktop environment, but can be used with a more traditional environment.  Below are some screen captures from the 60-day demo that created an executable of Firefox with Adobe Flash.  The default parameters were used in the majority of the selections.

Application virtualization encapsulates the application into a single executable .MSI or .EXE.  Just plug in an .MSI or .EXE file to deploy a virtual system environment, including registry keys, DLLs, third-party libraries, and frameworks without requiring any installation of agents on end point devices.

Outlook PST Viewer

This utility allows the viewing of a .PST (Personal Folder) file without using a Microsoft Outlook client.  The same site offers other free tools such as an OST Viewer.

http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/pst-viewer.html

Kingsoft Office Suite

Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012 is an office suite that offers a number of features for creating, viewing and editing personal and business documents. Kingsoft Office 2012 includes Kingsoft Writer, Kingsoft Presentation and Kingsoft Spreadsheet.

Kingsoft Office 2012 is compatible with all of the latest Microsoft Office file formats. It will easily open, read and write documents created with Microsoft Office as well as a wide variety of other formats. Microsoft Office can also open Kingsoft files without having Kingsoft Office installed on the same computer.

http://www.kingsoftstore.com/kingsoft-office-freeware.html