- Published:
- October 15, 2007 – 4:23 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Let’s say you use a piece of software which is horribly designed (or maybe you just don’t know how to use it properly) and you need to click a button thousands of times. See specifics below if your are curious of my particular predicament! Instead of clicking your mouse button like a crazy person – you can automate this task using software such as AutoHotKey. Using this software, it allows you to create a keyboard shortcut that lets you do a number of things without human intervention. This is handy for just about any sort of automated tasks where you find yourself clicking alot. These instructions are for getting your mouse to click at a particular point on your screen a number of times. Install AutoHotKey First step of course is to install AutoHotKey. Figure out where you need to click Launch the included program AutoIt3 Window Spy. This will….
Categories: Code Samples,Programs,Windows
Tagged: adobe, autohotkey, click, mediamonkey, mouse, mp3, photoshop elements, Software, task using software
- Published:
- October 15, 2007 – 11:00 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Adobe take note – you need to add 3D acceleration to your software. I’ve just checked out Pictomio and it really has a kick-ass GUI which utilizes your 3D accelerating video card to view and zoom photos. This provides a much better viewing experience than my current image library software, Adobe Photoshop Elements. Photoshop elements uses what I assume is a 2D rendering of photos – both zooming and scrolling through your photos is slugging even on my fairly new PC. Take a look at Pictomio: It is a pretty screenshot but you need to actually use the software to appreciate how smooth the GUI functions. This reminds of me of Coverflow and Apple – purchase this technology and incorporate it into your product Adobe – or your image library software will be out of date in no time. Photoshop Elements releases about 1 version per year, and I do….
Categories: Other Technology,Programs,Reviews,Software,Windows
Tagged: adobe, GUI, image cataloging software, image library software, photo management, photos, photoshop elements, picajet, pictomio, Pictomio - Image Catalog Software
- Published:
- September 5, 2007 – 11:30 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
I used to use a Thunderbird addon to remove duplicate messages in Thunderbird. This is handy if your mail client becomes “de synced” from your mail server, whether it be an IMAP or POP3 connection. Also this can occur if you restore a backup or import mails and it creates duplicates. However, after Thunderbird 2.0 was released, this old plugin was not compatible. Eyalroz re-released the plugin under GPL and with updates for Thunderbird 2.0. If you have a need to remove duplicate emails – this is the plugin you need! Get it: Remove Duplicate Messages (alternate)
Categories: Email,Programs,System Administration
Tagged: mail server
- Published:
- September 4, 2007 – 3:32 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
The Opera team has announced that Opera 9.5 Alpha is now available. I haven’t been an Opera user in the past. However, I’ve used their Mobile (Opera Mobile and Opera Mini) and their Wii browser and have been impressed. I’ve been missing out! Opera 9.5 is nice – if you haven’t tried Opera lately I would give it a shot. I’ve heard other users rave about previous versions, but I always thought to myself: “It’s just another browser”. 9.5 has a ton of features but here are the highlights in my opinion: Fast Page Rendering Engine History Search Bittorrent Client Integrated Synchronize With My Opera – Synchronize Bookmarks, Speed Dial, and other Preferences Improved Skin – Apple Human Interface Guideline support Mail Client Built In There is a slew of other changes in this release. I’ve found several pages which did not render properly or at all in this version….
Categories: Other Technology,Programs,Reviews,Software,Windows
Tagged: Impressed The Opera, Synchronize With My Opera
- Published:
- August 27, 2007 – 9:18 am
- Author:
- By Dave
I just read this in the Postfix Release Notes… and thought I had to share. [Incompat 20060806] Postfix no longer announces its name in delivery status notifications. Users believe that Wietse provides a free help desk service that solves all their email problems. Who said coders don’t have a sense of humor? :)
Categories: Configurations,Programs
- Published:
- July 17, 2007 – 1:14 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
When you generate a key pair in SecureCRT, it generates it in this format: —- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY —- Subject: dave Comment: “something” ModBitSize: 1024 AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAAAgQDQNXZosE8eAu6t9dsznpimQAXdaqkSmgKAgZ4+ gP9tW/j+wKtsEOBGasp4/AQu89Avscku+zp6lEuy9PCtBt03IdaQwls9GBl67EUzrKM 3NLNscuCt/LAsdjHfjvBL4q0Oh+MsHu0c6G6ltICqYmvAHYNAYBoPJv+0RMvxPdoNQ== —- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY —- This key if fine, but if you run a linux server such as CentOS, RedHat, Fedora, or many others which use OpenSSH for it’s sshd; then this key does not work in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. In order to convert this key to the one liner necessary for openssh, first upload it to the server. Either cutting and pasting into your text editor of choice, or uploading the file directly will work. Then run the following command to add this key file to your authorized keys: 1ssh-keygen -i -f /tmp/identity2.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys You can then log in using your private key. Here is the switch we are using: 1-i Convert IETF SECSH to OpenSSH key file.
Categories: Configurations,Programs,Security,System Administration
Tagged: Linux, linux server, private key, PUBLIC KEY
- Published:
- July 16, 2007 – 1:34 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
In the course of my work for Bluetreehost I connect to dozens of machines a day. Whenever I need to transfer a file, I would fire up WinSCP, connect to the machine, and commence transfer. It worked but it was slow and a pain in the butt. I just discovered the Zmodem function in SecureCRT. Why hasn’t anyone told me about this! Two clicks and I can transfer a file from my desktop to the directory I’m working on in the server. So for anyone who reads this and hasn’t discovered Zmodem – give it a try! SecureCRT is the best SSH program I’ve used and this is just another reason why it is so great for me.
Categories: Programs,System Administration
