From the Google Help site: “Here’s a quick list of some of our most popular tools to help refine and improve your search.” Doesn’t provide any new information, but it’s a nice refresher one basic search operators. You can find the site here, and the rest of Googles help is here.
According to this a mapped Windows drive is a lot faster for transferring files than simply browsing to the share. Find your share under Network Places, right-click and select “Map Network Drive”. Some other tips: put a $ at the end of your share name to hide it. Upgrade to SP3 to have multiple shares [...]
Google added a “always use HTTPS” setting to Gmail recently. Very nice addition. No more adding https:// myself and even more importantly, no more forgetting to add it. I’d recommend that anyone using Gmail enable this option. While email is plain text over the public Ineternet and shouldn’t even remotly be treated as secure communications, [...]
I was going to post today on why I think email has losts it’s appeal in the last few years. Instead, I’m going to share a very good series of posts with from another blog I’ve been reading lately online… There is a nice series over at 43folders on managing your inbox. The series goes [...]
The Vim text editor may be one of the best text editors out there, but it does have a learning curve to it. However with patient, practice and a bit of luck you can master Vim in less time than it takes to install some other text editors (ok, maybe that’s a stretch, but I’m [...]
Found this today. Probably older news for most of us, but I’m a bit behind on some of the graphical appliactions for Gnome. It’s a twitter client for the Gnome desktop envirmont. Oddly enough, it’s named gtwitter. Info can be found at the project site here. I’ve been using it for about two days now, [...]
By default, vim will wrap lines of text that flow off the viewable screen. Normally this isn’t such a bad thing. However, when you’re editing source code or reading log files this can become annoying. It’s fairly simple to disable this options, a simple :set nowrap will disable wrapping for the current vim session. Placing [...]
I have noticed the new cult phenomena is twitter, its caught like wild fire. I know I find my self waking up each and every day waiting to read some good tweets. What I would like to ask the audience is this, what has been your all time favorite tweets from any of your followers. [...]