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Application of the Day: Winmerge

Winmerge: a sweet application with great keyboard shortcuts to let you compare and file differences and merge them. Allows merging into existing file but is only for Windows (well I guess you could...

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WinTabber

If you ever wanted to have tabs for applications that dont support them? Well with WinTabber you can.. in a way What is WinTabber ? WinTabber is tabmanager that can add tab support to almost any window...

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Deleting Windows Services

In the process of installing MySQL I ran into a few errors leaving me with an added service that didn’t work. So now had to remove it: In a command prompt (Start > Run > type "cmd", enter), type...

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Playing Nice with Filesystems

If you have played around with any 2 of the 3 major operating systems (Windows, OS X and Linux) and start transferring files to and from external hard disk you will probably run into an issue with the...

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Windows 7 in Brunei

With Windows 7 being released in Brunei tomorrow I tried contacting several computer shops here in Brunei (CF King, Concepts, Netcom) to ask about pricing and availability. It seems that they have no...

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Offline Installers

Have you ever started to download an application and after downloading it you realized that what you downloaded wasn’t the application but a downloader application. I’ve always disliked this as it...

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Windows 7 – Touch Gestures

Ever since the iPhone came out there seems to be a resurgence with touch technology and in particular multi-touch technology. From full all-in-one PC systems like the HP TouchSmart that I’ve seen in...

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Unlocker / lsof / ps is your friend

So you go about your business using your computer and you want to safely remove or unmount a USB drive or SD card and you get the following message: Windows: “Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device”...

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Deleting files that give an error of “The filename or extension is too long”

del 0-Namespace-https???next-services.apps.microsoft.com?browse?6.2.9200-1?670?en-US?c?AU?Namespace?pc?00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000?00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.dat The filename or...

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