Category Archives: Tech Tips
Skype 4.1: how to disable quotes during copy-paste ops
Don’t like getting the text wrapped up in quotes when copy-pasting portion of a conversation in the Skype im box? Here’s how to disable this behaviour, and have Skype copy-paste work as it used to prior to version 4. In the main skype window, visit Menu Tools -> Options -> IM & SMS Press the […]
Couple of handy scripts to take away the pain of downloading App Store sales stats
If you are an iPhone developer you probably know all about the fun of having to download pretty much every day the previous’ day sales report from iTunesConnect, since after a week it’s gone. Started to look around for an automated tool and found some great pointer over at just2me.com — since I wanted to […]
Save and restore desktop icons position with DriverSweeper
Ever happened to change resolution of your Windows desktop, or to login remotely via remote desktop? All your carefully arranged icons get instantly smushed up together. And in most cases you end up having to re-position them one by one. If you ever stumbled in what above, after a few occurences and wastes of time […]
Fully backup your IMAP mailbox with IMAPSize
If you use IMAP as storage method for your email account(s) — that is, you leave all the messages on the mail server — along with enjoying being able to get to all your email from anywhere you might also be concerned by the “what if something happens to my email provider / server / […]
Put an end to the Windows XP / Server 2003 archives search feature
How many times you searched for something using the windows search on win xp / windows server 2003 and got annoyed by the fact that the thing after having exausted the regular files started digging through gigs of zipped backups and archives? Myself, countless times. Well, there’s a “cure” to this windows behaviour. – open […]
Recipe for a better bash
If you happen to have fun from time to time with *nix shells, and bash in particular, you’ve probably noticed that the command history will soon fill itself up with same-sort-of-commands such the usual ‘ls -la’, ‘uptime’, ‘df -ah’, etc.
forgetting the start menu with launchy
Just a quick blurb here about a little tool that recently entered my “never leave home without” folder: Launchy — a free, “lookup” sort of application which will index any directory of choice (by default the start menu one) and bring up a list of matching keywords as you go typing the name of the […]
How can I take off this huge blue thing in Skype 4?
Well more than an how-to, this is a request for an how-to, assuming someone figured it out, and/or it’s even possible. In a nutshell — I haven’t upgraded to Skype4 yet. Because of the annoying (and useless) huge window that the skype main screen has become 🙁 There is a workaround out there, with a […]
How to save time and get things done with Firefox — Part 1
Since I recently switched to Firefox I’m going to write-up a few short articles about my experience so far, and how I got it to become a great time saving and getting-things-done tool. Just a little heads up here before we start — I don’t make any guarantee that by reading and/or implementing what here […]
Getting Exchange ActiveSync Push to work on Exchange 2003 SP2
Here a little tidbit I discovered a while ago but never got around putting up here. Scenario: – you have Exchange Server 2003 SP2 installed and properly configured – you’d like to get devices supporting activesync push (most windows mobile 5 pocket pcs and smartphones) to be always up-to-date with the server through the use […]
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