The ‘ly’ Detector

The Passivator is a passive verb and adverb flagging bookmarklet for Mozilla-derived browsers.

Writers try to avoid adverbs whenever possible. This bookmarklet will flag adverbs and passive verbs with the aim to help you write better.  Wow, pretty soon when my browser be able to actually write my articles for me?

I have to say that I really like tools and applications– e.g. bookmarklets– that give me this sort of functionality, normally without having to pay a dime for it. It reflects a completely different paradigm when you think about it: rather than going out and buying a relatively expensive piece of software that does 1000 different things, installing bookmarklets that are specific to just one or two tasks is a brilliant way to essentially customize your computer for the work you yourself actually do with it.

Software KVM

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware.

The software is intended for users with multiple computers on their desk. The software is free and open source and supports the most flavours of Linux and Windows.

We have done posts pointing to software that allows screen sharing before but I don’t think I’ve ever heard about software that enables me to do a screen share between computers running different OSs.

If this works as advertised it is even better for people who have access to both Windows and Linux machines. (link via okyere.org]