Outlook 2007 Tip: Remove Windows Desktop Search prompts

Outlook 2007 is a pretty great upgrade to Outlook in terms of user interface, but is not without problems. Chris Pirillo describes a few here, and personally I’m still underwhelmed with Outlook’s performance on my machine. Even when I turn off all of my Outlook add-ins (and I run a few of them), my dual-core [...]

Speed up Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP

One of the new features of IE7 is a phishing filter. Unfortunately, checking sites to see if they are possible phishers can slow down your computer. Sites with multiple frames can even use so much CPU time that the system crawls. Microsoft has a patch to help with the problem at this link. Microsoft says
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NimBuzz Talk - Mobile Calls to GTalk , Yahoo and MSN/Live Messenger

Nimbuzz has proudly introduce NimBuzz Talk beta version (Mobile Application ). The main purpose of Nimbuzz Talk supports application supports voice, presence, conference calls, and SMS messaging between mobile devices, PC’s, and mobile to PC or PC to mobile.
The application has been designed to support more than 500 mobile models and Windows XP/2000 for IM [...]

Extract and decompile .chm file to view as html file under Linux

You can view .chm file using gnochm or kchmviewer under Linux. However sometime you cannot install these programs. There is a third alternative - arCHMage.
From the man page:
arCHMage is an extensible reader and decompiler for files in the CHM format. This is the format used by Microsoft HTML Help, and is [...]

Autostart programs when a usb drive is connected

USB Virus Scan is a nice little command line utility that performs predefined operations if a usb drive is connected to your computer. It is able to distinguish between various drives which means that you can add custom operations for the drives that you own and a general option for drives that are not recognized. [...]

The Ultimate downloader for RapidShare.DE and RapidShare.COM

Here you go, latest working version of CMS The Grabber version 1.4.7C. The ultimate downloader for RapidShare.DE and RapidShare.COM and download multiple files at once and without limits!
You can always download the latest version at CMS Forum.

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Linux command editing examples using cat, ed, and sed

Linux and UNIX - Fast command line editing examples using cat, ed, and sed. Here is why you need to use command line editing tools…
#1: Text editor takes time for small editing
#2: Use command line editing
#3: Save time and impress your friends [ read as look like an elite UNIX hacker ]

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Windows based Ubuntu installer

Here’s a nifty beta of a windows based Ubuntu installer.  Simply download the installer and run it in Windows.  It will prompt you for your type of install (i.e. Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.) and a username/password.  It will then download everything you need, install it and prompt you to reboot.
Looks pretty slick!  See the Ubuntuforums thread [...]

Firefox Searchload Extension

The Firefox add-on Searchload adds three useful options to those users who use the build in search. Did you notice that every search string that you enter stays in the search field and that you have to clear it manually when you want to enter a new search ? Searchload’s first option is to reset [...]

A Beginner’s Guide To LVM

This guide shows how to work with LVM (Logical Volume Management) on Linux. It also describes how to use LVM together with RAID1 in an extra chapter. As LVM is a rather abstract topic, this article comes with a Debian Etch VMware image that you can download and start, and on that Debian Etch system [...]

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