Apps I use.

• MouseJail - a universal game patch for the multi-monitor users. During a fullscreen game, MouseJail captures the mouse into the primary monitor.
  
• Taskbarshuffle - This is a simple, small, free utility that lets you drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons to rearrange them.
• Ex2fsd - "This project is an ext2 file system driver for winnt/win2k/winxp."
• DisplayFusion - DisplayFusion is a fantastic application that can make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) life much, much easier! From allowing you to use a different wallpaper on each monitor, to integrating with Flickr for image searching, to providing hotkeys for managing your application windows.
• Foobar2000 - Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.
• mIRC - mIRC is a popular Internet Relay Chat client used by millions of people, and thousands of organizations, to communicate, share, play and work with each other on IRC networks around the world. Serving the Internet community for over a decade, mIRC has evolved into a powerful, reliable and fun piece of technology.
• MouseKeys - MouseKeys allows you to use the numeric keypad to control the movement of the mouse pointer. If you want to use the numeric keypad for data entry as well as for navigation, you can set MouseKeys to be activated by pressing NUM LOCK.
• TweetDeck - TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.
• PuTTY - PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham.
• Transmit (OSX) - column view. idisk. sidebar. ftp/ssl. search. zooming. tabs, transmit 3 takes mac os x ftp to the next level. again.
• qtsmbstatus - QtSmbstatus was designed as a client/server system secured with SSL. A login and password is required to log on to server (PAM). The server's application ought to be installed with samba-server.
• LockDown (OSX) - Lockdown is a Mac security application built from the popular iAlertU. With a new interface, splash screen, and icon, Lockdown makes securing your Mac while you step away even easier than ever. You can customize its detection features by activating your computer's motion-sensors, keyboard-sensors, external device sensors, MagSafe sensors, and more to ensure that not even the slightest tap goes unnoticed.
• Wakoopa - Wakoopa is the perfect place for people to discover software online. When you sign up, you also install a small tracker that keeps tabs on what software you use. This creates an online profile for you to share with the world, and also gives you updates and recommendations on what your friends and others are using.
• Crossloop - CrossLoop is a consumer Internet company that empowers everyone to help someone anywhere in the world with its free and easy-to-use software application for desktop sharing.
• RealVNC (Win/OSX/Wine) - RealVNC provides remote control software which lets you see and interact with desktop applications across any network.
• Skype - Skype created a little piece of software that makes communicating with people around the world easy and fun. With Skype you can say hello or share a laugh with anyone, anywhere. And if both of you are on Skype, it’s free.
• iStat Menu (OSX) - iStat menus monitors your entire system right from your menubar, with 8 separate and highly configurable menu extras. You'll always know exactly what's going on inside your Mac!
• WinSCP - Free SFTP, FTP and SCP client for Windows
• VLC - VLC media player - the cross-platform media player and streaming server. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video ...ISO
• ISOBurner - Windows only: Freeware program ISO Recorder makes it easy to burn, copy, and create disc images (CD or DVD) in Windows.
• Networx - NetWorx is a simple and free, yet powerful tool that helps you objectively evaluate your bandwidth situation. You can use it to collect bandwidth usage data and measure the speed of your Internet or any other network connection.
• WhoCrashed - Make thoe window dump core files readable ;D
• ISO Recorder -  ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images (DVD support is only available on Windows Vista), copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder.

Its not about where, but when to advertise!

Last week was the last week of college for me, until September at least.

And as I left i went to the loo (as you do) and as i was drying my hands, in-between the dryers was a A4 piece of paper that said "While your standing there drying your hands, have you thought about your future?" and the rest of the paper said about where you can get help about your future, but that's not what got me, it was the fact it advertised when you had time to read it. There every few times when you spend time in your day standing around, with nothing to specifically to look at, one is drying your hands you look at the cracks in the walls, the logos etc but having an advert there you will read it, your mind has to.

Now using that idea, maybe its the same with the net?

Gmail, Redesigned

Most of us use Gmail.

For me I use it for all my emails, excluding some important ones that go into a remote mailbox.

But the point is that using Gmail for 3 years since it came out, the interface gets old.

But thanks to Better Gmail 2 addon for firefox, this will change.

The new Addon from this link lets you:

• Force you to connect on https(Secure)
• Shows the Inbox count first (eg: "(1 unread, Google Mail - Mozilla Firefox")
• Use Macros

The above list just shows you the first tab of options, there is a total 6 tabs, and one of them is Skins, and from that you can choose:

• Gmail Blue
• Greys and blues
• Redesigned
• None

I chose redesigned, and will never go back on that choice, its a awesome interface, I recommend you install them asap!!

Also available:

• Better Flickr - Version 0.3: Adds Firefox 3 support, Rich Edit, Photo Page Enhancer, and Thumbnail Page Enhancer.
• Better Youtube (But be careful because of Viacom!) - Version 0.4.3: Adds Firefox 3 compatibility; Fixes FlowPlayer (alternate, non-autoplaying player) and YouTube Theater view.
• Better GCal - Version 0.3: Adds the Redesigned skin beta by Globex Designs.
• Better GReader - Version 0.3: Adds Colorful List View; Updates the Minimalistic skin; Adds international domain support including google.co.uk, google.es, google.de, and others.
• Better Lifehacker - Version 0.2: Adds HTML Helper and Nested comment replies.

Collected via Lifehacker

What i hate about Unix? Simplness of commands.

Okay, I'm sitting there minding my own business and suddenly the PC goes bleepbeebeeebebeb.

Okay, I may slightly be doing a Ellen Feist on you, but its exactly how I feel?
Whats the difference between */ and /* ? a whole server!!!

Okay, the command I tried was this:

chmod 0644 */ -R

Which should have made all files in the directory I was in to 644 (Read and writeable by owner, but only readable by others). But as I was typing too fast I did this:

chmod 0644 /* -R

Which doesn't do the same command, if I'm in /home/user/public_html, it doesn't run the command from public_html it runs it from the root, right at the top, like setting all your C:/ to permission denied (For you XP readers).

Its just those few seconds while you wait for it to run, then reload it through your head and get that sickly feeling as you have just realised what you have done, you hit Ctrl +X as hard as you can but you know the damage is done

One server, over 300 users and I have just successfully written off the server, boy this day could get better :(

New advert I just finished, also has a slogan, what do you guys think?
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