Be careful when using the “I’m Feeling Lucky” search on Google. You do not get to see the result’s discription or what webpage you are about to visit and it could cause you some trouble. For example currently “zune windows theme” visits the download URL. So instead of a webpage you are instantly prompted to [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]