One of the reasons why I absolutely love Mozilla Firefox is the fact that the system of tabs is so excellently implemented. At times I want to be able to copy a tab. There are two simple ways of doing this:
Method one: mouse
By simply holding down the Ctrl-button on our keyboard while dragging a tab (as if to relocate it) you instead create a copy of the tab where you drop the tab.
Method two: keyboard
Start by clicking Ctrl+L to activate the address bar. Then press Alt+Enter. This will copy the current tab to a new tab located at the far left of the list of tabs.
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Firefox – Copy tabs
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Unetbootin – Run Linux from a USB thumb-drive
Many of you will be familiar of the concept of Linux Live CDs. For those of you who are not, I’ll say this: Most Linux distros are these days installed using a Live CD. You enter the CD into the CD-ROM drive, start the computer, and there you go. Your computer boots from the CD, and your are, effectively running Linux. From there, you can try out the distro, and install it if you want to.
Unetbootin is a program that lets you do the same, only with a USB thumb-drive. The point is that not all computers have a CD-ROM-drive, but most have a USB-port. You simply plug in the thumb-drive, and there you go,
Unetbootin supports the following distributions of Linux and BSD:
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Spacemonger – find out what’s clogging up your hard drive
Ever seen that your hard drive is nearing full, and been unsure what files are to blame? In my job as a desktop service technician, I’ve many times been called upon to find out what is causing a client’s computer to be running slowly, or simply what’s making a software install fail. One of the tools I have with me for these situations is a nifty little tool called Spacemonger.
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Created by Sixty-Five Software, Inc., Spacemonger exists in at least two versions; the current version 2.1, and its predecessor 1.4. The latter is available as a free download, and the other one is available for purchase at $24.95. Here’s what the main window looks like:
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Importing Facebook Events to Google Calendar
Do you use Google Calendar? So do I. Do you use Facebook? Me too. Ever been annoyed that you couldn’t easily import Facebook events to your Google Calendar? So did I. Turns out, it is easy. Here’s how:
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A quicker PDF reader
A while ago a good friend of mine introduced me to a nifty little program. We were talking about the fact that both of us had a plethora of pdf-files, and were annoyed at the fact that Adobe Reader not only takes very long to load, but also takes time to render the files.
He then proceded to tell me that at his new job, they’d cut out Adobe altogether, in favor of a different reader; Foxit Reader. Recently released in version 3, it not only loads quickly, it also renders very quickly.
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Resolving "An Error Was Encountered While Opening A Window" errors
Lotus Notes has a plethora of more or less (usually the latter) legible and understandable error messages. One of them I encountered the other day. The situation is as follows: a client of mine told me Notes had crashed, and she was now unable to restart Notes due to a rather cryptic error message: “An Error Was Encountered While Opening A Window”.
Now if we only knew why. The problem, it turns out, is that a process called NTASKLDR is still running. Knowing this, we also know how to resolve the problem. The solution is to kill the process called NTASKLDR. Open the task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC, open the processes tab, find the process and end it. -
Thinclients: Resolving Protocol driver error
As I have previously mentioned, my employer uses thin clients in some locations. They’re cheap, and they usually just work. They are, of course, dependent on a network connection to the server to work.
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Disabling IPv6 or running IPv6/IPv4
If you’re running Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 with DHCP, you’ll be likely to encounter problems if you don’t set up IPv6 properly. The fix is of course to set up IPv6 properly on the server, but there are a few workarounds if you can’t do that. You can’t uninstall IPv6, but you can, among others disable it, or configure it at will.
To disable it, clear the Internet Protocol version 6 (TCP/IPv6) check box in the properties of a network connection. You can also configure it a bit more than that. What you need to do is create a registry key and set it properly. Here’s how:
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Quickly and simply troubleshoot networks from the command line
I love using command line tools, especially for troubleshooting networking. There are two simple commands you need to know;
ipconfigandping. Here’s a simple guide to finding where the problem :
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Find the DiskCleanup utility easily
I’m sure you know the problem: you’ve used someone elses computer, and want to remove your traces. One of the easiest ways of doing that is to use the DiskCleanup utility, however locating it isn’t exactly the easiest thing.
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Finding your (serial) keys
You know the situation; you’ve got problems with your computer, and need to reinstall it. However, you’ve got loads of software installed, and need the serial keys for them. What you need is a keyfinder. There are many out there, but the one I’ve found to be most useful is called the Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder.
The keyfinder comes in a zipped file containing the program itself, a config file and a GPL. Once unzipped, simply run it, to see the serial keys it finds:
