Many a times I have wanted to place my own custom folder in the space to the left of the Save as/Open window so that I could go to my area in a jiffy and not navigate through a maze of drives and folders to reach my destination. It is such a compelling requirement that it must've been a default feature in windows but no, it is not.
I have done a little research on how to get this feature. And what do I find? MS, no less, provides this functionality through a power toy program. I discovered that MS has numberous power toy programs to achieve different things and TweakUI is one of them. And all the power toys are "free". It is a very small program(147KB). Once you install it look for the "Places Bar" option in the "Common Dialogs" section. Here you can define 5 custom folders. And no more than 5. Rest is pretty self-explanatory.
Here is the link to find all the power toys from MS: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Monday, October 20, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Mother earth is a living being
That's my opinion. Yes, ME is living in many ways.
For long she has been pushed up the wall with the growing number of ways humans are finding to pollute her. Increased emissions with the numerous cars, industries, etc. Green-house changing the look of the earth...the white poles will no longer be white in a few years. You can go on and on.
We need to slow down..but how? Man will keep doing his bit for pollution until he can do it. He will purchase the big car if he can, to compensate for something. How can we stem this rot, you ask. The crash of the credit market, overnight..ta da! You can't get loans so easily. AND the loans have become dearer. What is the option left with the man? If he has a car he'll make do with it and if he doesn't he'll purchase a 2nd-hand one which was the good old way of having something bigger, which was forgotten for a long time. Re-cycling had almost been forgotten. Does it have to take such crises to remind people of recycling things until the utility for it is lost? I think it is nature's way of reminding people their roots.
Thrift as opposed to consumerism! That's the key for a long time to come.
For long she has been pushed up the wall with the growing number of ways humans are finding to pollute her. Increased emissions with the numerous cars, industries, etc. Green-house changing the look of the earth...the white poles will no longer be white in a few years. You can go on and on.
We need to slow down..but how? Man will keep doing his bit for pollution until he can do it. He will purchase the big car if he can, to compensate for something. How can we stem this rot, you ask. The crash of the credit market, overnight..ta da! You can't get loans so easily. AND the loans have become dearer. What is the option left with the man? If he has a car he'll make do with it and if he doesn't he'll purchase a 2nd-hand one which was the good old way of having something bigger, which was forgotten for a long time. Re-cycling had almost been forgotten. Does it have to take such crises to remind people of recycling things until the utility for it is lost? I think it is nature's way of reminding people their roots.
Thrift as opposed to consumerism! That's the key for a long time to come.
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