I want to describe some of my job. Started simple (work at home, or in popular terms: home office), I decide to develop useful computer software (with many awards and best buy tags) I use in my desktop computer and my notebook computer. The most popular up today is Comparator Fast. It is my file folder compare tool, I use most on my Windows XP box, Windows Vista, and Windows Millenium. I always test all my software to be compatible with all releases of Microsoft Windows (except Windows NT 3), I mean: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millenium, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, and now Windows Vista. I love this software because is my content management / document management tool... it helps me to keep synchronized all my development projects, mp3 downloads, music videos (I love to download samples of popular music videos), my Microsoft Word documents and other Microsoft Office files (Excel, Visio, etc.), compare files and folders recorded on my DVD media r (I also use it as backup software too, because It verify all written media to ensure my files are exact), etc. I try to do my best on technical support, free product sample (fully enabled demos for a long 30 days trial basis), and other free downloads (free software, as Intelligent Copier). You can obtain a full license from Shareware software with a small fee, payable with credit card, phone, fax or even Paypal.


Other tool I used most is Network Clipboard and Viewer. I had enough issues with the limitations of Microsoft Clipboard, so I decided to write one, better. Right now is the only software (mine) that support skins. If the customer computer is not fast enough to run skins, may disable it and run faster. Network Security was on my mind, I include a 128 bit high security encryption, and is a nice network solution: I can share my clipboard with some other computers / users, some automatically and others I decide when and what to send. You may keep a History of all used clipboards (even remote ones -received from remote users-), I can see Clipboard Properties (with all the hidden details -formats and sizes-), save image clipboards as any of popular formats: Bitmap, Jpg and Gif (with independent settings too), keep clipboard data as Network Clipboard data files (not just a whole database as other similar software), I can see which computers are online in my Lan just looking at EasyBar (it appears automatically when you move your mouse cursor fully to the right -or to the left, if you moved EasyBar position-, and for those of you without a mouse -I had to believe it- may call EasyBar with just Ctrl+Alt+E), can recall prior used clipboards with just a click in proper System Tray icon (and for people that is enemy of a lot of icons on System Tray, using keyboard shortcuts) and many other features I don't want to type here (you may check at http://www.interdesigner.com/NetworkClipboard/Features.htm).


Another one is Shutdown Manager and Tools. I'm still unconfortable with its name, because I noticed most people confuses it with just a Shutdown Tool, and is more than that. Any ideas? Some computers may need to block some functions like Windows Key, Disable Ctrl+Esc, Disable Context menu key, Disable Explorer Keys (or may disable all System Keys at once), Disable Start Menu, Disable Taskbar, etc. Disable options may work for just Current User or entire computer. You may define Users to block (blocked users), and you may change any setting using a master password. You can schedule Shutdown, Restart, Logoff, Hibernate and Standby tasks, with optinal Forced mode. It can show a "Wait for Windows" option, where you may choose one or more "windows to wait for", it means, it monitors your selection and fires when specified window is gone (example, when a task is complete, the window you selected is not visible anymore and usually appears a "complete" dialog or main form of an application). Includes a File Finder I prefer to use instead of Microsoft's one because File Finder is much more flexible and faster, and results are always available no matter if I start another search. Tasks to perform before shutdown is a tool I can program to run several tasks at shutdown: clean Windows Temp folder, Documents History, Scandisk files, Windows Tmp files, Recycle Bin contents, Internet Explorer Cache, Cookies, Typed URLs and History of visited sites, and clean Recent used Files for Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003. Of course you may enter and do this manually, if you want. Another tool I think is useful is "Running Processes" tool. It shows 32 bits processes and all useful information, like location, full version information, etc. A very nice feature is Autokill. Once, my notebook was infected with a new worm. I tried to remove it, but using Task Manager's End Process option was useless, because the worm had some other "partners" that immediately creates a new process, and if I killer the worm / spy partner, the other recreates and run it faster! Well, Autokill doesn't allow it, when you click Autokill button, any new process is simply killed much more faster, this way it doesn't allow that virus spread and I can remove it (because I see the strange process names and locations right at "Running Processes" window), Automatic Taks Manager (allows to create specific tasks), an Emergency Shutdown button (It kills all running programs and services and immediately instruct Windows to shutdown), and integrated Power Monitor (for Notebooks computers), Memory Defragmenter, a tool I called "Ruler" (is more faster to use it when I need some portion of my screen, just launch Ruler and then select the portion and may save it as Bitmap, Jpeg or Gif), Animate Start button (this just for fun), keep my CD's as System Tray Icons I may explore them with just one click, and some other tools and features.

Well, finally I decided to start my blog. I'll try to keep it useful, detailing some of my work in several aspects, principally about http://www.interdesigner.com

Today I spend my day updating Interdesigner's site and some changes for the main products (http://www.interdesigner.com/ComparatorFast (Comparator Fast), http://www.interdesigner.com/NetworkClipboard (Network Clipboard and Viewer) and http://www.interdesigner.com/ShutdownManager (Shutdown Manager and Tools).

I decided to include search capabilities for the site, and found a very useful add-on from my host provider (not from them, available as option but is freely available): Perlfect Search (http://www.perlfect.com). Is really easy to configure and flexible, indexes the site (may use rules as robots) and can include Acrobat Reader .pdf and MsWord .doc documents (using external calls but is transparent to you). Well, included. I had a little problem to remember some Javascript stuff, but easy to found online. Well, also had to include a validator for "Quotes"... I like to receive comments (mostly good), but recently I received a lot of spam from there too. I don't understand spammers, If I really want Viagra, Cialis, Viox, or all the other stuffs common from these guys, why the bomb and bomb over and over and over! Really, Is like turning a simple thing in PERSONAL. Well, the validator seems to work now. Because I'm a little insane perfectionist, I published the site after testing my changes and agree with look and feel. Well, I made 2 more publish process, and after this post, I'll change a new thing I changed because is better a little more to the right. Hey, I told you, a little insane ;)

Well, back to work.