Stuff-a-blog…a cool ‘proof of concept’ product for bloggers

Stuff-a-blog is a web application that makes it easy for a blogger to create content-rich blog posts. Bloggers often feel the need to enrich their plain vanilla blog-posts with relevant content available on the web. The only way of doing this is to systematically ferret out content from the internet and include it in the [...]

Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 Free Download, Reviews and Comparisons

Microsoft releases Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007, a financial management software designed for early startups and small or home-based businesses. Office Accounting Express 2007 consists of desktop software that is a free download and seven integrated premium online services available for a fees. Unlike during Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 during beta, the application has been [...]

Download and install an RPM file on fly from ftp or http server

Many books or free Linux tech support recommends downloading an RPM file using wget and installing it using rpm command. For example to install awstats rpm:
Go to /tmp directory
$ cd /tmp
Download awstats using wget
$ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/awstats/awstats-6.5-1.noarch.rpm
Now install awstats
$ sudo rpm -ivh awstats*OR# rpm -ivh awstats*
To be frank you can skip all three steps with one [...]

InstallPad: Automated software download and installation

InstallPad is a brilliant open source app for Windows that lets you automate the download and installation of entire suites of programs. InstallPad relies on “application lists,” which are XML files that tell it where to download the programs and how to install them. It has a built-in GUI for building and editing an application [...]

Different Display Settings for each User in XP

Windows XP has the annoying habit of assuming that every user wants to run his operating system with the same screen resolution, color depth and refresh rate. If you ever had to share a computer running windows xp with older folks you know what I mean - they tend to love low resolutions because everything [...]

Remotely Manage Machines Using VNC

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing `desktop’ environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. Read Full article here

Remotely Manage Machines Using VNC
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GMail with Attachment Icons

Attachment icons in GMail is based on the GREAT Moktoipas script. Gmail allow you to change the default attachment icon (paper clip) to Word, Excel, images, pdf, zip, text and css file icons based on the filetype . It is not just cute pics of attachments but also a great way to sort mail [...]

SpamAssassin is a FREE Open-Source Spam Filter

SpamAssassin is the powerful #1 Open-Source Spam Filter. It can be natively installed on various flavors of Linux, and then integrated into SendMail/ProcMail. With some additional efforts, it can be used with Windows [...]