Being able to search for files is a fairly important aspect of using a computer. Naturally there are a number of ways to accomplish this task. You can use a powerful tool like Beagle (check out my article Enable Beagle Searching in GNOME) or you can use easier, faster command line tools to handle your [...]
How To Go Discount Hunting On Amazon
Did you know that it is possible to go discount hunting on the various Amazon websites? It actually is pretty easy to search for discounts at the Amazon website. All that is needed for that is a basic url that needs to be altered to reflect the category and the discount. Depending on the item [...]
Gmail Mail Notifier
If you do not want to keep Gmail open in a web browser all the time and also do not like the idea of installing an email client to monitor the Gmail inbox (either because they use to much system resources or pose a risk to privacy) you might want to check out the Gmail [...]
Readyboost Monitor
Windows Readyboost was a new feature that Microsoft introduced in Windows Vista. Readyboost basically allows a user to add flash memory to a computer system running Windows Vista to increase the performance of the system. These flash memory devices act then as additional memory cache. It should be obvious that they do not come near [...]
Run SSH Server For Remote Desktop Connections
Moba SSH is a SSH server for Windows that makes it possible to run commands and transfer files on a remote Windows PC running the server software. The SSH server is compatible with Linux, Unix and Windows SSH clients. Windows users can for instance use Putty or WinSCP to connect to the SSH server remotely. [...]
loc.alize.us: Geotag photos the old way… with Google Maps
Generally, I geotag my photos using Flickr’s Organizr. Unfortunately, I often find Yahoo! Maps to be much worse than Google Maps and whilst recently tagging some photos of Northern France and Flanders, I simply found it intolerable (being unfamiliar with placenames etc). I began to reminisce about the days when geotagging was somewhat more complex [...]
Stellar PDF Creation with Scribus
Professional PDF documents can make or break a marketing campaign, or advertising promotion, or even seal the deal with a client. For most people this job is done with either QuarkXPress or Adobe Reader. Both outstanding tools with a high price. Did you know, however, there was an open source tool that can do the [...]
Force Outlook To Delete Mails Completely
If you are using the email client Microsoft Outlook you might have noticed that mails that you deleted earlier were still available in the Outlook pst files on the computer’s hard drive. Those pst files can be opened with a special viewer for that file types or with a hex editor. When an email gets [...]
Use Mail Goggles to Avoid Sending Embarassing Mail
Ever dashed off an email full of your rants and then regretted it after you hit the ‘send’ button? Maybe you had one too many drinks and decide to let your entire address book in on your drunken thoughts? If you use Gmail, you now have a failsafe to prevent yourself from sending out such [...]