CDBurnerXP is a great tool that allows you to burn to a variety of media in Windows XP. You can create boot discs, create audio or data discs and even print cases and labels. Great little tool and free, free, free.
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Changing the Screenshot Location in OS X
Each user in Mac OS X can customize the location that their screenshots (aka screencaptures) will go. To do so you would edit the com.apple.screencapture property list, customizing the location key. You can easily edit this file using the defaults command. For example, if we wanted to set the location to go to a folder called screenshots in the home directory of a user we could use the following command: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/screenshots You can also change the default type of screenshot which I cover here https://krypted.com//mac-os-x/mac-os-x-changing-the-default-screen-shot-format.
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Malware: The PC Users Worse Enemy
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal How to Know You Have it and What to do About Removing It What is it? Malware, short for Malicious software, is the macro concept behind names like “Adwareâ€, “Spywareâ€, “Hijackersâ€, “Toolbars†and “Dialersâ€. Malware is a growing PC-related assault epidemic (doesn’t effect Macintosh too much yet). How you get it? Malware tends to sneak into your life (usually in a hidden or invisible manner) via third party software (software from less-than well known developers) disguised as added functionality to your work flow and your internet experience (and other bells and whistles) in order to execute many malicious tasks that are bad for business.…
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Creating a crontab
Creating your first crontab job is a three-part process: Prepare the absolute path to the program or script that you want to run Create a text file containing a line to schedule the job as described above for crontab fields Upload the text file to your system cron When preparing program to run or creating scripts to run remember that crontab jobs are background tasks. There is no terminal attached to a crontab job so there should be no print statements that normally write to the screen. (It is possible to redirect such print statements.) The same consideration hold true for requesting user input. Let’s assume that we want to…
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Disable Auto-Run
When you plug a disk into a drive (er, mount a volume) in Windows the autorun.inf will automatically be processed. You can disable this by holding down the shift key when you plug it in.
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Mount Iso files on Windows
Check out isorecorder by alex feinman at http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com
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Setting Compatibility Mode for Windows Applications
Some applications need a little help to run. If it’s an older application and it will not launch then think about changing the compatibility mode. In order to do so, right-click on the application and click on the Compatibility tab. From here, set the compatibility mode to a previous version of Windows and then try to fire it up. Might just help…
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Name that Tune
Upload a tune that you hum and viola, Midomi will name it for you!
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NetFlix Now Online
OK, so NetFlix was always online, but did you know that you can watch movies online too. Not all, but chances are, if you have enough movies in your queue that you’ll have at least one that is able to be watched online. The technology that allows all of this is Microsoft’s Silverlight. Because Silverlight is not yet available for the Mac you can’t watch NetFlix online from a Mac just yet. Rumor has it that Silverlight will be available soon though, so just be patient and it’ll get there… Another aspect of NetFlix that is often overlooked is social networking. You can rate movies and then share your queue…
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Application Acceleration in Windows XP
In Windows you can choose to speed up or slow down an application by assigning a priority to the application, which prioritizes the amount of resources that can be had by that application. In order to set the priority, bring up the Task Manager in Windows. Then click on the application in question, Right-Click on it and then choose the Set Priority sub-menu and assign the application with the appropriate priority.