Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Shadow Copy in Vista home additions

ShadowExplorer.com
ShadowExplorer allows you to browse the shadow copies created by the Windows® VistaTM Volume Shadow Copy Service. It's especially thought for users of the home editions, who don't have access to the shadow copies by default, but it's also useful for users of the other editions.

Unable to save or download files in Firefox 3

Unable to save or download files - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

"Starting in Firefox 3, downloads of executable files (e.g.,
.exe or .msi) may fail and the Firefox Downloads window will contain
this message, under the filename:


  • This download has been blocked by your Security Zone Policy.

This issue occurs because Firefox 3 now honors your Windows security
settings for downloading applications and other potentially unsafe
files from the Internet"

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Fix Firefox 3 mimeTypes to save rar files

close Firefox
add this to mimeTypes.rdf in your %userprofile%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:application/zip"
NC:value="application/zip"
NC:editable="true"
NC:fileExtensions="rar"
NC:description="WinRAR ZIP archive">
<NC:handlerProp RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:handler:application/zip"/>
</RDF:Description>

save, open firefox, test it

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Free file storage

Quickly remove USB devices

USB Disk Ejector | Quick And Easy Software
Is a command line program or a normal gui program.

Command line options are:
  • Eject the drive that the program is running from.
  • Eject a drive by specifying a drive letter.
  • Eject a drive by specifying a drive name.
  • Eject a drive by specifying a partial drive name.

Friday, July 11, 2008

Connecting to multiple IEEE 802.11 networks with one WiFi card

VirtualWiFi Home
(VirtualWiFi is an old project, and we started working on it in 2002. We are not actively working on this project for the last 2 years, and will not be supporting this software at Microsoft Research. Thanks for your interest. However, the software and code will still be available for you to play around with.)

Virtual Machine

VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Free Icons

Icon Archive - 18,400+ free icons, buddy icons, xp icons, vista icons, desktop icons, aim icons
Icons can be used for Windows (XP, Vista, etc.), Macintosh (OSX, OS) and Linux (as PNG Files). Copyright of icons belong to original authors. Public usage license can be found on each icon set page.