Thursday, April 10, 2008

Add a "Send to Photoshop" Button to Picasa

Picasa probably jumps a few notches on my list just for being associated with Google, but honestly after using it, I would have it ranked high anyway. This program is amazing.

Picasa: Add a "Send to Photoshop" Button to Picasa

Ping from the Firefox Address Bar

Here's a cool little tip to ping nodes from another website -- which helps figure out if they are really down or if it is just your connection.

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=ping&host=%s

Now, if you add a bookmark for that in FF and set the keyword to 'ping', all you have to do is 'ping {host}' in the address bar!

Network Utilities: Ping Servers from the Firefox Address Bar

Sync Your GCal to Outlook and Back Automatically

Google calendar rocks.
This one is for those of us who can't seem to get away from Outlook too.

Featured Windows Download: Sync Your GCal to Outlook and Back Automatically

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

More Cable Modem Fun

Thanks to the World Wide Web, I was able to figure out that it is possible for me to look at my new cable modem via a web interface (and SNMP as well). My new modem is a Scientific Atlanta Webstar 2100 (DPC2100R2).

At first glance, only one page was available but thanks to Google and borfast.com I was able to get all sorts of good info.

The diag page is http://192.168.100.1
To get access to the locked pages:

  1. Visit http://192.168.100.1/_aslvl.asp

  2. Set the Access Level to "Access Level 2"

  3. Enter the password: 'W2402'

  4. Press Submit


http://www.borfast.com/node/313

Monday, March 31, 2008

Skip the Annoying "Use the Web service to find the correct program" Dialog

Tired of being asked if you want to look-up on the internet what program to use to open a certain "unknown" file type?
Here's a hack to disable that stupid box:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\
NoInternetOpenWith (32-bit DWORD) = 1


Skip the Annoying "Use the Web service to find the correct program" Dialog :: the How-To Geek

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Change the Windows Explorer Icon to Open A Diffierent Folder

I don't know about you, but I don't really use the "My Documents" folder for a whole lot -- you know, because it has spaces and capital letters...booooo!

But, I use Windows Explorer all of the time.

So how do I get Windows Explorer to stop opening My Documents every time I click the icon?!

Easy: Change the "Target" in the shortcut to '%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,c:\'

How To Change Windows Explorer Icon To Open A Diffierent Folder In Windows XP And Vista

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Linux keyboard shortcuts

Check it out:
You're in the linux terminal doing whatever and decide you want to undo whatever you just did. So you hit CTRL+z -- WAIT! This isn't Windows, so now you have:

[1]+ Stopped vim crazyFile
>

Now what?
I'll tell you what -- try `fg`.
Viola!

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