A Few Awesome Things

I just wanted to do a brief post to give a few, uh… shout outs I guess to a few random things that I find really awesome!

First up is Digsby. Digsby is hard to describe because it does so much. It is mostly and instant messenger program, but the catch is that you can log into Digsby with ALL of your different IM accounts whether they are AOL, Yahoo, MSN, etc. and talk to all of your friends from one program. That isn’t the only thing it does though. You can get E-Mail notifications and even send E-Mail from Digsby. You can also get notifications from websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. On top of that you can use Digsby to send files, send text messages, and to video chat! It' also has a very customizable user interface. So with all these features packed into one program I think it is definitely worth some time to check out for everyone! Did I mention that it is totally free?

Second is Royale Noir, a “secret” windows XP theme. This is a theme that was (partially) developed alongside Royale (the Windows Media Center Edition theme) and was never officially released to the public. Someone eventually uncovered it. You can download it and find instructions on how to easily set it up here. Enjoy!

The last thing I would like to mention for now is Eclipse. Now I don’t know its full capabilities, but I know that it is a wonderful program for Java developers. It also has C/C++ capabilities and a few other languages I believe. It has wonderful auto-complete features and auto importing of classes. I also like the exporting feature that allows me to easily make runnable .jar files from my java programs (which you’ll be seeing some of on this blog soon). The only annoying thing I have come across is the fact that every java class you make must be in a “project” which makes it somewhat difficult to switch from computer to computer and work on the same files because you have to make a new project and import the files, etc. Overall this is definitely my favorite IDE for Java so check it out!