So I was at work today with my 24″ LCD thinking, “Man, I wish I had a convenient way to organize/resize my windows such that I could see several at once beyond a generic ‘Tile Windows’ configuration.” So I remembered a little utility that kinda did this with a laptop I bought a couple years back by Acer called “Vista Grid”. But that didn’t quite tickle my fancy so I looked for some better alternatives.

The search led me to WinSplit Revolution (WSR). Yeah, it’s kind of a cheap-sounding name (kinda like www.superantispyware.com, which, by the way, is one of the better free anti-spyware apps out there!), but I really like it, plus it’s totally free!

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We now have a newly revamped Indy ALT.NET site up and online! While we’re not completely done with it, we are far enough along to go ahead and turn it on for the time being. Very soon we will be filling out some of the interactive portions but for now it is fast and has all of the necessary information there!

So why did we do this? Several reasons…
1. The original site was a wiki system manipulated into being a community-type site. It worked, but was a little strange.
2. The original host was donating their services to us and we had began to overstay our welcome.
3. Our original replacement .NET-based CMS was not as efficient for us to manage as we had hoped.
4. Our original replacement host had very serious availability issues (also donated hosting).

So as a result, we ended up choosing a PHP-based CMS and are paying a little bit of money for some proper hosting. And what you see is the result! A (soon-to-be) proper community site that is very responsive for you, very flexible for everybody, and very easy for us to maintain and update. All-in-all, a good site for the group!

Major kudos go out to Sasha Kotlyar for all of the hard work with getting this up and running! Without him, we’d still have a pretty crappy site!