November 2008 Entries
A couple of weeks ago I felt that it was time to give my laptop (Dell Latitude D830) a clean install. I’ve been running Vista 64-bit on it and it has worked great. I’ve also been curious at Hyper-V and not totally satisfied with Virtual PC (the vm’s are often to slow). Said and done, I installed Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition and got on to configuring it and installing features and roles. That WS2008 is not a client OS is a given, but the amount of configuration to get it to work like one was a little...
Hi there, this post is about being a little more efficient in your everyday work. These shortcuts maybe saves me half a sec every time I use them, but I do use them literally a hundred times a day. Ctrl + E Using the Ctrl + E keyboard short cut gets you to the search box in many major applications, such as: Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox and Outlook 2007. Some examples: Outlook Internet Explorer FireFox ALT...
Every now and then I want to rename files in a folder according to a pattern. Mostly it is to hook up audio books in my iPod. Then I have to rename all the files with .m4a extension to .m4b (and don’t ask me why apple did choose this idiotic solution). This is easily done with a dos command in windows (ren *.m4a *.m4b). But when you want to change file names according to a pattern it gets trickier. I stumbled across this sometimes when I want to rename digital photos and such. Anyway, I found this utility...