- 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Apple – purchase this technology and incorporate it into your product Adobe – or your image library software will be out of date in no time.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 10, 2007 – 11:03 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
The technology has been around for a while to do unattended OS installs, using kickstart on redhat for example. These installs are typically done remotely. Kickstart is basically done off of an image file, which can be inserted via a floppy, CD, or now a USB Keychain drive. Another technology that has been around a while is pxeboot. Using pxeboot, you can boot images directly from a supported network card. Most network cards have a built in bootp interface. The network card first looks for a bootp (aka dhcp) server to assign an IP address and load an image. It then uses the trivial ftp protocol to look for a boot image, called pxelinux. Then pxelinux loads the correct installer image. So the process looks like this: 1Power on->Boot from Network->Bootp->Tftp->pxelinux->Boot Image Loads After loading the boot image, the system is on its own as far as doing the install…..
Categories: Linux,System Administration,Windows
Tagged: actual hardware, admin-tools, America, bootp server, dgram
protocol, dhcp server, Ethernet, firewall, legacy-software-development, Linux, MAC Address, option routers, Peter Anvin, private network, root
server, system-tools, text-internet
mdadm
kernel
grub
e2fsprogs, tftp server, The bootp protocol, trivial ftp protocol, udp, Windows Unattended Installation
- 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 10, 2007 – 7:12 am
- Author:
- By Dave
If you are a Google user – meaning Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Reader, etc – then you should know that by default, once you log in your sessions are typically not encrypted between your browser and the Google servers. For some more technical information on this, check out dmiessler’s post on the subject. He mentions using bookmarks to make force your browser to use Google’s secure connections – however I’ve noticed that occasionally depending on how you arrive to your Google services that you will switch to an unencrypted session without warning. For that reason, If you are using Firefox and greasemonkey, I highly recommend installing the “Google Secure Pro” userscript. It automatically switches you from using http:// to https:// to ensure your data is encrypted to Google’s servers. This will increase your security greatly from using the unencrypted connections, which is good if you transfer confidential data….
Categories: Configurations,JavaScript,Security,Windows
Tagged: Google, http
- Published:
- August 3, 2007 – 11:45 am
- Author:
- By Dave
I’ve been using the VPN Software Hamachi for several years now and thought I would share my experiences with it. Previous to being purchased by LogMeIn, Hamachi was a smaller company which designed this great software. It is now offered in 2 versions, the free “Basic” version and the paid “Premium” version. The premium version is currently around 3.25-4.95 a month, depending on how many licenses you need and how much you pre-pay. The free version gives you basic VPN connectivity and allows you to control smaller networks which is great for your own personal secured network. There are some pretty cool features in the “Premium” version – to see all of them click here. The idea is that you install Hamachi on each of your PCs which you would like to connect to your VPN. In my case, I have my Home PC, my home File Server, my Work….
Categories: Security,Windows
Tagged: file server, LAN, Linux, local area network, LogMeIn, media server, personal secured network, VPN
- Published:
- June 23, 2007 – 11:06 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
For Firefox and Opera only: Use the Google Secure Pro Greasemonkey script to force these Google programs to use SSL in your browser. It changes any accesses via http to https which is supported by Google, this secures your connection between your browser and Google’s servers. If you do any type of work using Google’s services where private data is exchanged, I would highly recommend this greasemonkey script to secure your communications!
Categories: Security,Windows
Tagged: Google, http, SSL
