Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Have you ever wanted to have a custom folder in the save/open dialog window?
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
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
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.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Just reached Bucharest
Yes! Majak majak mein Bucharest pahunch gaye.
Who would've thought that I'll sometime visit this vague eastern european country which was in news last time for the execution of it's ruler. The first impression is a little funny. It is an EU nation but there are facets about it that remind u of India.
Haven't seen much now but from my window it looks like Mumbai with the only difference that it has some really magnificent building sprinkled among some run-down neighborhoods.
The travel was interesting too. From bangalore to frankfurt I had this french woman beside me. When we took our seats it seemed like a usual boring flight where I'll talk to my neigbors only when I need to go out. But as soon as the take-off began she this lady had become so jumpy like a cat on a hot tin roof. She almost grabbed my hand and asked if it is OK if she talked to me as she had a type of fear of flying. Her fear manifests dangerously only during take-offs! She said she had purchased a book about it and was explaining to me about it. Very interesting conversation!
I have got my camera here but haven't got my card reader..let's see how i upload photos while i am here.
Who would've thought that I'll sometime visit this vague eastern european country which was in news last time for the execution of it's ruler. The first impression is a little funny. It is an EU nation but there are facets about it that remind u of India.
Haven't seen much now but from my window it looks like Mumbai with the only difference that it has some really magnificent building sprinkled among some run-down neighborhoods.
The travel was interesting too. From bangalore to frankfurt I had this french woman beside me. When we took our seats it seemed like a usual boring flight where I'll talk to my neigbors only when I need to go out. But as soon as the take-off began she this lady had become so jumpy like a cat on a hot tin roof. She almost grabbed my hand and asked if it is OK if she talked to me as she had a type of fear of flying. Her fear manifests dangerously only during take-offs! She said she had purchased a book about it and was explaining to me about it. Very interesting conversation!
I have got my camera here but haven't got my card reader..let's see how i upload photos while i am here.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Using Guugle for searching ebooks
Using Gugle for searching ebooks
Gugle has some fantastic potential for you to find whatever you are after on the internet.
To search for a book / program / file perhaps try the following.
Go to Gugle's search page and use the following criteria in the search dialog
intitle:index.of? file extension Name of item
e.g. intitle:index.of? chm syngress
This will hopefully give you a listing of all websites that google has cached that contain references to files in CHM format that are published by SYNGRESS.
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I use in Gugle
+("index of") +("/ebooks"|"/book") +(chm|pdf|zip|rar) +syngress
or
allinurl: +(rar|chm|zip|pdf|tgz) Syngress
Enjoy
Gugle has some fantastic potential for you to find whatever you are after on the internet.
To search for a book / program / file perhaps try the following.
Go to Gugle's search page and use the following criteria in the search dialog
intitle:index.of? file extension Name of item
e.g. intitle:index.of? chm syngress
This will hopefully give you a listing of all websites that google has cached that contain references to files in CHM format that are published by SYNGRESS.
---------------
I use in Gugle
+("index of") +("/ebooks"|"/book") +(chm|pdf|zip|rar) +syngress
or
allinurl: +(rar|chm|zip|pdf|tgz) Syngress
Enjoy
Saturday, August 30, 2008
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