Just a quick note to those who use Google Desktop for WIndows: it eats up hard drive space like nothing I've seen! I ran out of disk space on my system partition yesterday while running a large video convertion task, and after some searching I found the culprit - Google Desktop creates an entirely different index for each user in your machine. I use my laptop in different customer's networks (and different AD domains), so I have about five user accounts in my machine. Each index was taking up about 2 GB. In my 30 GB system partition, you can ...
Saw this one over at FriendFeed Watch: the first desktop client for FriendFeed was released! I was looking forward to this, as FriendFeed is such a nice and well implemented idea that justs begs to become a permanent resident of my system tray, rather than having to keep a browser tab permanently open to check on it. The client is called bTittleTattle (yea, don't ask), and it was made by the guys at Sobees. It is based on the Windows Presentation Foundation so, unfortunately, Windows only forever :( Check out the video below to see what it looks like.
I basically ...
As you might know, Apple has released a beta version of its browser, Safari, for Windows. Since I'm a huge fan of beta stuff and have been seriously considering whether my next notebook should be a Mac, I decided to test it for one full day - the idea being that during an entire day I would use only Safari, instead of Firefox. I spend most of my time browsing, for fun and work, so this is a major test for me. Here are my conclusions.
It looks great
The user interface is sleek, nice and simple, and basically feels very nice ...
Having recently switched to Windows as my main desktop due to some work assignments, I've set up Putty to use encryption keys to handle my sessions - this way I don't need to type in a password every time I need to open a new ssh session. Here is how to do it.
First of all, you need to get Putty from here. While Putty itself is only a tiny executable, I recommend you use the fullinstallable package, as we'll use other apps from there such as PuttyGen and Pageant. Once installed, fire up PuttyGen and create a new ...