Comments on: My Favorite Utilities That Make UMPCs better http://gigaom.com/mobile/viliv-s5-utilities-to-make-umpcs-better/ Sun, 27 May 2012 08:45:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Claudia http://gigaom.com/mobile/viliv-s5-utilities-to-make-umpcs-better/#comment-416848 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:27:44 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34574#comment-416848 I agree with you, James. I found the various docks — RocketDocket, ObjectDock — to cumbersome to use. I discovered Stardoc Fences and haven’t looked back. It’s absolutely ideal for the S5, because you can either have the clusters of icons on your desktop or you can hide them all (and you can make exceptions if, for example, you always want the recycling bin to be visible) with a simple double-click.

]]> By: mytechnews http://gigaom.com/mobile/viliv-s5-utilities-to-make-umpcs-better/#comment-416847 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:59:55 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34574#comment-416847 JK, I managed to download and install uBoard from this link -> http://sylverbee.free.fr/UboardSetup.zip which I found through an extensive Google search!

It looks the same as the one in your screenshot, but I’m not sure if the version number is identical.

]]> By: Travis http://gigaom.com/mobile/viliv-s5-utilities-to-make-umpcs-better/#comment-416846 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:25:35 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34574#comment-416846 Thank you for the link to UBoard.

]]> By: Nurhisham Hussein http://gigaom.com/mobile/viliv-s5-utilities-to-make-umpcs-better/#comment-416845 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:06:17 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34574#comment-416845 My vote goes to UMPC Scrollbar:

http://blogs.msdn.com/vikrammadan/archive/2007/04/05/dead-see-scroll-bar.aspx

Absolutely essential for those dialogs that don’t fit the screen.

]]> By: Lorie Ghamy http://gigaom.com/mobile/viliv-s5-utilities-to-make-umpcs-better/#comment-416844 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:12:06 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34574#comment-416844 My favorite and free HD Led indicator is the really small floating bar (3 sizes).

FloatLED 1.03

http://www.stone-oakvalley-studios.com/index_software.php

]]> By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/mobile/viliv-s5-utilities-to-make-umpcs-better/#comment-416843 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:38:31 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34574#comment-416843 Trying it now. Impressive but needs a hovering mouse to get full use out of it.

]]> By: bluespapa http://gigaom.com/mobile/viliv-s5-utilities-to-make-umpcs-better/#comment-416842 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:39:58 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34574#comment-416842 The most valuable thing for me working with my Q1 has been Kevin’s suggestion to use Display Properties (in XP) or Personalize (in Vista) to widen the scroll bar and title bar. That also helped with an early Acer Tablet I had because the active digitizer was less accurate as you approached the edge of the screen.

I also keep a handful Yahoo! widgets ready to show battery, memory, and wifi network and strength.

And Process Explorer to help me locate run-away processes, but that’s good for more than just UMPCs.

]]> By: HG http://gigaom.com/mobile/viliv-s5-utilities-to-make-umpcs-better/#comment-416841 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:28:42 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34574#comment-416841 James you guys have covered this one before here at Jkontherun, but for small screens you can also install rocketdock. That way you can customized your icons you want to add to the dock, gives you more space.

]]> By: tcv http://gigaom.com/mobile/viliv-s5-utilities-to-make-umpcs-better/#comment-416840 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:58:44 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=34574#comment-416840 Not so much UMPC related, admittedly, but I have used SoftLEDs for remote support. Oftentimes, a computer may be doing something with the hard drive but if you’re not there to see the blinking LED it can appear that the system is hung especially if there’s no corresponding CPU hit in the Task Manager. SoftLEDs lets me know something is going on.

@tcv

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