AddToRun – Create your own run commands to launch programs quickly

Browsing through start menu, adding a quick launch/desktop shortcut, creating a keyboard hot-key – these are a few ways to launch an application. There is another popular and easy way – Run command. Just press Win+R and enter a command, program launches. Keyboard lovers use it very often. There are many standard commands like notepad, [...]

Show Current Music Track playing in Foobar 1.0+ as Gtalk status

Google Talk’s current music track as status message does not work with Foobar2000. Googling the problem took me to this post at manast.blogspot.com, but to my dismay, I found it did not work for my Foobar2000 v1.0.1. In this post I’ll discuss how you can enable it for Foobar2000 so that it works for version [...]

Read CBR or CBZ files (comics and graphic novels) [How to]

CBR/CBZ is a rar/zip version of a Comic book archive file. Most of the e-books of comics and graphic novels come in these formats. You can extract these archives as image files but reading an e-comic differs greatly from browsing through images. Free software are available for reading e-comics. They differ in their size, usability [...]

Prevent Putty session from going inactive [How to]

Frequent users of putty should have encountered the Putty (inactive) problem. This happens because servers are usually configured to disconnect idle sessions after they are inactive for a particular time. This has many disadvantages. You can no longer monitor the jobs running in the background and the UP arrow for previous commands may not work. [...]

Changing case of a piece of text using Hotkeyz

I posted about Hotkeyz earlier. I have mentioned that it does lot more than just launching applications and executing basic windows commands. Here is one of those which constitute that ‘more’. Sentence – The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Title – The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog Toggled – [...]