Articles from October 2008



Copy Shell Prompt Output To Linux Clipboard Directly

Ever wanted to take the output of a shell command and take it into an X application ? This article from NixCraft will explain you how to install this little utility, under all major distros. Once installed, all you need to is to pipe the output of whatever command to xclip, and you then can [...]

How to add other functions in the “Main Links” widget

As I upgrade to new versions of WordPress, the link that I like to have, “Write an article” is sometime deleted. In order to put it back, edit file wordpress/wp-includes/widgets.php. In the function wp_widget_meta, insert the link after the line that reads <ul> by itself.

Analyze/Manage Hard Drive Space with WinDirStat

WinDirStat is a visual tool that will tell you the disk space distribution no your different devices. It can do this on different levels. You can find this tool here: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=windirstat&filename=windirstat1_1_2_setup.exe&use_mirror=internap

Universal Extractor 1.6 – great tool

I found this tool while reading BetaNews: Publisher’s Description: Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it’s a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. Although I did not have much time to try it out, the [...]

Free Clipboard Manager to keep clipboard history

Anyone using Windows knows about the clipboard. This temporary storage space that is so temporary that it gets overwritten all the time. Although it has done great things, its unique storage is sometime a problem. You may want to re-use what you put there sometime ago, but that is now gone, or harder to retrieve. [...]

Send private notes like Mission: Impossible, use Privnote

Want to send a note that will be read only once, like “This message will self-destruct in 30 seconds” ? Privnotes will let you do that. Don’t worry ! The note will not self-destruct in smoke 30 seconds after you opened it. Your computer will not explode and you will not see any special effect [...]

Firefox: Convert Plain Text To Links for surfing

When you surf the net, you can see full http link in the middle of a page which is actually not a link. Sometime, this may be from text cited from someone else, sometime the author forgot to actually make the link active, sometime, they do that so you cannot easily jump to this new [...]