Tricks and Tweaks
How to convert CBR to CBZ and CBZ to CBR [Comic files]
Jun 2nd
I use Touch Comic to read comics on my Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, but it only supports the CBZ format. Here’s how you can convert CBR comic files to CBZ, and CBZ to CBR. What are CBZ and CBR files? CBZ and CBR files are nothing but zips (in case of CBZ) and rars (in [...]
Realtek Front Audio Jack Panel not working solution
May 15th
If you have Realtek audio card in your desktop and you’re having trouble getting the front audio jacks working, here’s how you can get them to work. Step 1: Open Realtek HD Audio Manager from the Control Panel. Step 2: In the Speakers tab, click on the hard-to-spot Connector Settings button at the top [...]
How to Change PuTTYs Default Settings [Windows]
May 12th
Every time I launched PuTTY, I had to either manually set the colours and the lines of scroll back, or create a profile just to save the settings I desired. PuTTY stores its settings in the registry. Here’s a short tutorial on how you can modify PuTTYs registry settings to change its default startup values. [...]
Create an SSH Auto Login Shortcut for PuTTY [How to]
May 8th
PuTTY supports ssh autologin with its command line parameters. Here’s how you can create a desktop shortcut to automatically login, with password, to a ssh server using PuTTY. Download PuTTY. Right click on desktop and choose New > Shortcut Click Browse, navigate to and choose putty.exe Append the location with the PuTTY command line parameters [...]
Create a shortcut to stop unresponsive programs in Windows
May 2nd
To kill a “not responding” program, you usually have to open the Windows Task Manager, find the program, right-click and choose End Process. But if there’s one particular program which almost always misbehaves and requires you to perform these steps over and over again (Oracle Sql Developer? Anybody?) – here’s a short tutorial on how [...]
