STICKIES: notes and colors on desktop

Stickies is a free utility with which you can write reminders on your desktop (the equivalent of colored slip of paper and sticky going to attack anywhere).

Among the notable features the ability to point out: 

1) use different colors for each "package". 

2) use different fonts, sizes, font styles. 

3) store, discard, retrieve, export the package. 

4) include an alarm reminder to show only when appropriate.

5) insert images. 

6) customize the "themes" or "skin" of the leaflets. 

But the feature I like best is the ability to send reminders to other users connected to the same LAN. From the book of STIKIES you can choose to which and to how many users send reminders (with confirmation of receipt).Also you can update in real time the shared address book for all users stickies on the internal network. This enables some scenarios in companies with very large offices or arranged on different floors. For example: "I remember a meeting with my colleague in an office which is 3 floors below me and that is currently busy on the phone? Well then I send him a reminder using stickies!" 

Another feature allows you to send reminders by email. 

Update: 17-10-2014: Stickies version 8.0b add these new features:

• Images can be inserted into text stickies
• Stacks for desktop stickies
• Friendly name hyperlinks
• Periodic automatic full backups
• Properties dialog added for all stickies in all categories
• Screen grab directly to an image sticky
• Skin browser dialog
• Stored sticky category icons
• Image undo levels can be configured
• Restore from backup
• 'Solo' a sticky to work with just that one
• Option to offset screen position of new stickies to prevent overlap
• New image editing operations: rotate, greyscale, invert, flip, mirror, border, blur, jitter, flood fill, border
• Configurable tab stops
• Feature to move data file location
• Save image stickies as JPG
• Show recurring parent
• Default note content files for text and image notes

[LINK] Stickies

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE:

I use this software since version 5 (now we are at 7.1a), I'm excited and I think it useful to write reminders for myself and for other office users.

In one company than I knowm it is used "heavy" side by side with the utility "sticky server" that manages the shared address book for all users on the LAN.

OpenDNS - Replacement for improving DNS performance and security

OpenDNS is a free site that provides its own DNS (Domain Name Services) for resolving Internet names into IP addresses. 

www.opendns.com

The advantages are: 

1) Provides a faster navigation of Web sites. 

2) Identify fraudulent websites (phishing) and allows you to surf the Web safely. 

3) Corrects typos of Web sites identifying the correct site that you would like to visit. 

The operation to perform, to access the service, is to replace the primary and secondary DNS provided by your Internet provider with those of OpenDNS: 

1° DNS = 208.67.222.222

2° DNS = 208.67.220.220

In addition, by registering on the site and adding its own static IP address to the control panel you can perform additional tasks such as: 

4) to receive daily statistics on sites visited or the amount of traffic generated. 

5) receive reports on malware in your PC network (when the E-virus visit suspicious sites on the control panel appears written Malware / Botnet Activity Detected). 

6) prevent access to specific sites or categories of sites (such as games, social networking, sites for adults) by adopting the so-called "parental control". 

OpenDNS is also suitable for companies or in places where there is a LAN with many PCs that access the Internet through a single connection. In this case it is better to configure your Internet router (and not the individual PC) by entering the DNS of OpenDNS . 

For those who use Zeroshell as a router, here is the page explaining the steps to follow: http://www.zeroshell.net/opendns/ 

There is also a paid version that provides more advanced services and features. You can also install software to use OpenDNS even if you do not have a static IP address (such as happens to those who use not permanently internet connections).

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE:

I found this service very useful in business in order to prevent user access to entire categories of websites that are NOT of STRICTLY BUSINESS interest. In addition, the function of malware signaling was useful to discover the presence of viruses that even the antivirus on the PC were not able to find out!