Category Archives: Windows

HOW TO: Use personal Bit.ly account with UrlbarExt

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Nick Mathew

UrlbarExt is a wonderful add-on for Firefox. It provides  useful tools from within the address bar of Firefox. To quote, UrlbarExt extends the Location Bar with set of commands to (Make Tiny URL,Copy URL,Search site,Go up,Tag pages easily ,Navigate through … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3.5 is here!

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Nick Mathew

Firefox has been updated to version 3.5. This version boasts of a few cool features, such as HTML5 Support and Geo-location. Get more details at http://lifehacker.com/5295655/top-10-firefox-35-features http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/releasenotes/ Check out this video of what HTML5 can do. http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/connecting-html5-video/ Of course, a … Continue reading →

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Resetting the Sansa e280 v2

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Nick Mathew

My SanDisk Sansa e280 v2 ran into a glitch recently. It just wouldn’t recharge the battery. The Sansa charges via a proprietary cable through the USB port. Having never experienced this issue before, I thought it was something wrong with … Continue reading →

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Drupal Tutorial – resource

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Nick Mathew

A really good resource for anyone who is using Drupal to build websites. Reference: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/implement.html

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HOW TO: Install Ruby 1.8.7 on Windows

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Nick Mathew

Download the windows binaries for Ruby 1.8.7 here: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ extract that to wherever you would like, I use c:\ruby. Then put c:\ruby\bin in your PATH environment variable. Download the zlib package: http://www.zlib.net/zlib123-dll.zip and extract the zlib1.dll, rename it to zlib.dll … Continue reading →

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HOW TO: Proxy Firefox through SSH

Posted on March 29, 2008 by Nick Mathew

Requirements: PuTTY on local machine Remote host running OpenSSH 1. Create a new PuTTY session Run PuTTY and create a new session in PuTTY to connect to the remote host that is running OpenSSH. Fill in the hostname, the port … Continue reading →

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HOW TO: Shortcut to “Safely Remove Harware”

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Nick Mathew

Press Windows Key + R (To open the run dialog). Type in the following: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch Now create a shortcut (right-click on an empty space in the folder and select New-> shortcut). Add the following line. RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll … Continue reading →

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