Category | August, 2007

Novell Client For Vista

Novell Client For Vista

Finally Novell has released a copy of the Novell Client for Windows Vista.  It’s been a struggle overcoming all the “safety” features Microsoft has introduced into their OS, but a working version has finally arrived. [...]

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Open Source PDF Reader For Windows In A Single Exe

Open Source PDF Reader For Windows In A Single Exe

I’ve stumbled across a really nice program.  How many times have you gone to someone else’s computer to find out that they don’t have a PDF Reader installed?  The you’re faced with a slow download, and install.  Throw this little program on your USB key and never worry again. [...]

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Add A PDF Printer In UBUNTU

Add A PDF Printer In UBUNTU

Although PDF support in UBUNTU is fairly robust, for some reason a PDF Printer is not included in the default installs.  Adding a PDF printer makes it possible to create PDF files from virtually any application, including Firefox and Thunderbird, here is how. [...]

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Have Different Background Wallpapers On Dual Monitors

Have Different Background Wallpapers On Dual Monitors

Multi-display monitors are becoming more and more common.  People really enjoy the added functionality from having two screens to use.  The immediate issue that you will notice is that the wallpaper displays the same image on both screens. How would you like to have different backgrounds on each monitor?  Here’s how to do it. [...]

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Inserting A Cover Page In Word 2007

Inserting A Cover Page In Word 2007

Although I’m not the biggest fan of Office 2007 (mainly because of the ribbon) Word 2007 does make it easy for you to customize the look of your documents. The predefined styles help you create professional looking documents, and, with Live Preview, you can try out different formatting options without actually changing your document. [...]

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Slow Motion Aero Animations

Slow Motion Aero Animations

Many people have by now enabled the Aero Glass Interface on their Vista computers.  But did you know that it is possible to hold down the shift key while closing, opening, and minimizing a window to see the animation in slow motion?  If you would like to try this out just follow these steps. [...]

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Run Unix Applications In Windows — “Reverse Wine”

Run Unix Applications In Windows — “Reverse Wine”

Almost everyone has heard of Wine for Linux, where you can run Windows Applications on Linux.  Have you heard of Reverse Wine?  Meaning you can run Linux applications in Windows?  Well it’s built in to Windows Vista, and here is how to configure it! [...]

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XML Notepad

XML Notepad

Microsoft has released a new Notepad, XML Notepad.  It is a full-featured, and well done XML Editor. If you don’t want the entire Office 2007 package which comes with an XML Editor (which I can’t stand by the way), XML is in my opinion the only other option. It’s a slick implementation and best of all, it’s free to download. [...]

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Find Open Ports Quickly Using GUI Tools

Find Open Ports Quickly Using GUI Tools

Many people pull their hair out with firewalls, and trying to find open ports and what is using that port.  How can you quickly find all the listening or open ports on your computer?  The easiest way to find the open ports on your computer is from using a GUI Tool that displays all the open ports and what is listening on them.  Here is a brief listing of some of the best and easiest to use utilities with links on where to download them. [...]

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Install Xine Multimedia Player in Ubuntu

Install Xine Multimedia Player in Ubuntu

Xine is a free, gpl-licensed, high-performance multimedia playback engine. The core of xine is responsible for synchronizing audio, video and overlays. It provides high performance comunication functionality between modules, logging capability, unified configuration system,  It has several input plugins, decoders and output plugins. It is a full featured multimedia experience! [...]

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