I’ve spent the last several months trying to figure out, once and for all, my perfect email system. All my email is in Gmail, but there were certain things I didn’t love about using Gmail – the offline features are hit-or-miss, there’s no reading pane, and a few notably missing keyboard shortcuts caused me some [...]
Follow multiple log files with multitail
Any Linux administrator knows that watching log files is key to troubleshooting problems on a Linux system. In some troubleshooting instances it is necessary to follow more than one log file. For this you will wind up with two terminal windows open which can become a mess (when you already have a number of windows [...]
Laptop Battery Monitor BattCursor
If you use a mobile computer like a laptop or netbook on the road you better make sure to keep track of the battery to avoid running out of power when its most important to have access to the computer. We have seen several laptop battery monitors in the past like notebook battery monitor, BattStatt [...]
Search Bing And Google Simultaneously
A great way of testing a new search engine is to compare it to the dominant established search engine. BingAndGoogle offers a combined search interface that is more comfortable than working with two web browser windows or switching between tabs in the same window. The search engine mashup displays a single search form on the [...]
12 IMDB Userscripts
Userscripts come in handy in many different situations. They really shine when it comes to adding, changing or removing features on websites. Probably the most popular way to use userscripts is by installing the Firefox add-on Greasemonkey. IMDB, the Internet Movie Database, is one of the most popular movie review and information websites. A search [...]
Remote PC Access, Android PC Remote Access Program
Google’s Android operating system is still only available in the T-Mobile G1 cell phone. Cell phone manufacturers and Google are however planning to release at least 18 Android based devices in this year alone which will surely help in gaining market share in the cell phone market. T-Mobile G1 users can access the Android Market [...]
Google Squared Launches
Google Squared is a new concept search engine by Google. Unlike conventional search engines Google Squared has been designed to present the information right in the search interface without the need of leaving it to read up on the information on other websites. A user who would be interested in Greek Philosophers, American Presidents or [...]
TweetMyPC 2.0 Update Released
We reviewed the first public release of TweetMyPc not long ago, The software program allowed the user to send a Twitter command to a PC running the software which would either initiate a shutdown, logoff or restart. Many users felt that it was a great idea but lacked custom commands which would increase the functionality [...]
Adding a directory to your $PATH
In the Linux operating system the $PATH is a listing of all directories where the system will look for commands. What this means is that all of the commands located in the directories included in your path will be globally executable. For example: The /usr/bin directory contains quite a lot of commands that can be [...]