RDP from the Command Line

Let’s face it, connecting to Windows Servers is a must for many of us. And some of us want to do so programatically. I did look at populating the CoRD database in a previous article. But now, luckily CoRD has recently introduced a command line interface for managing just these types of connections on the [...]

Posted on February 1, 2010 at 9:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Show Desktop Icon for Windows & Windows 7

Ever delete the Show Desktop icon from Quick Launch? One of my favorite features of Windows, it is a big part of my everyday use of the OS. So when I accidentally deleted it I had to figure out how to get it back. And it wasn’t nearly as easy as I would have thought [...]

Posted on January 20, 2010 at 7:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Programatically Clipboarding in Windows

My last article showed how to interface with the clipboard in Mac OS X. Windows 7 comes with the same feature, but instead of pbcopy it’s simply clip. Since you don’t ls, we’ll pipe the output of dir into the clipboard: dir | clip Enjoy & no more complaining that I like one platform more [...]

Posted on January 15, 2010 at 8:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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My Top 10 List of Firefox Add-ons

Here is a quick list of my favorite 10 Firefox Add-ons: AdBlock Plus – Block annoying advertisements AppTabs – Allows you to shrink your Firefox tabs by right-clicking on them and clicking on AppTab, showing just the address bar icon (favicon) of the site. BabelFish – Automatically translate pages you visit. Better Gmail – Useful [...]

Posted on January 1, 2010 at 9:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Get A Dock in Windows

In addition to getting a theme for Windows that makes it look more like a Mac you can also now install a Dock in Windows! rocketdock.com

Posted on December 28, 2009 at 8:00 am by admin · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Lots of new stuff: Command Line Wiki Integration

The Mac Commands page and the PowerShell Commands page are both now wikis and users with accounts on this site can edit them. Additionally I added a number of new pages worth of commands, FTP Commands, Windows Commands, Final Cut Server Commands, Amazon S3 Commands, Podcast Producer Commands and Xsan Commands; both of which are wikis [...]

That Wacky Adobe Security Flaw

Information about the exploit: Wacky Security Flaw Patch thyself: Adobe’s Mac patch site Adobe’s Windows patch site That is all I have to say about that.

Posted on October 18, 2009 at 9:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Bubble Alerts w/ Silent Installs

When you push software to a Windows computer there’s an annoying little alert that pops up to tell the user that new software was installed. In one organization I was recently at this accounted for approximately 20 calls to the help desk every time they pushed out an update (patch Tuesday for them is one [...]

Posted on September 5, 2009 at 8:55 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Disable Caps Lock in Mac OS X

I don’t think I’ve actually used the caps lock key in years. Well, scratch that, I’ve frustratingly used it by accident. I did a post a couple of years back with a couple of ways to disable it for Windows. But recently I’ve been doing a lot of work and have accidentally made the amount [...]

Posted on August 12, 2009 at 8:16 pm by admin · Permalink · One Comment
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Offline Files on Windows Without a GPO

Open up My Computer and click on Folder Options in the Tools menu.  Then click on the Offline Files tab and check the Enable Offline Files checkbox.  Then select whether you would like to Synchronize All Offline Files When Logging On or Synchronize All Offline Files Before Logging Off checkbox.  You can also click on the Create An Offline [...]

Posted on August 11, 2009 at 9:00 am by admin · Permalink · One Comment
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