{"id":181,"date":"2008-07-10T23:17:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T06:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2008-07-10T23:17:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T06:17:45","slug":"extensions-for-windows-beta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Extensions for Windows Beta 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/crapmonkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/extensions.jpg\" alt=\"Extensions for Windows\" width=\"172\" height=\"204\" \/>I installed beta2 of <a title=\"Extensions for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/www.extensoft.com\/Default.aspx?p=15\" target=\"_blank\">Extensions for Windows<\/a> and I am pretty impressed.\u00a0 The exstensions suite is customizable in the sense that users may install only the utilities that are desired, but I find that I have uses for all that are included.\u00a0 Extensions\u00a0offered out of the gate include a Screen Capture Utility, a Virtual Drive creator and manager, a Shortcut Manager, a File Compare Utility, a\u00a0Find and Replace Utility, a Disc Analyzer, an Explorer Extension, a Task Manager Extension,\u00a0and FTP client, and a\u00a0File Converter.\u00a0 The Shortcut manager is a very convenient way to create, modify or remove Windows keyboard shortcuts.\u00a0 My favorite extensions so far are the Explorer extension &#8211; which is like the Windows file explorer on steroids.\u00a0 It enables tabbed explorer windows, side by side explorer views and a host of other helpful options.\u00a0 Most of the extensions are available by clicking on the Extensions Icon in the system tray.\u00a0 However, a couple of my favorite extensions are accessible by right clicking on files.\u00a0Right clicking on image files gives you an &#8220;extension&#8221; option that\u00a0allows you to quickly convert or resize images (See image below).\u00a0 Doing the same on office documents lets you quickly &#8220;print&#8221; the document to a PDF.\u00a0 This is cool, and so far the bugs I&#8217;ve encountered have been minor and the installation did not appear to slow my machine down.\u00a0 So far, I give Extensions for Windows two opposable thumbs up!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/crapmonkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/fileconvert.jpg\" alt=\"Extensions for Windows\" width=\"365\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed beta2 of Extensions for Windows and I am pretty impressed.\u00a0 The exstensions suite is customizable in the sense that users may install only the utilities that are desired, but I find that I have uses for all that are included.\u00a0 Extensions\u00a0offered out of the gate include a Screen Capture Utility, a Virtual Drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[43,119],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-extensions-for-windows","tag-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}