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...

Apparently someone has been reading my posts, because in the last weeks I received invitations to test out three different tools in areas related to my previous posts. The kind folks at Comapping invited me to check out the new features they have launched – I will do it, as soon as I have time! I also got asked to review a new online project management...

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...

photo © 2008 Mike Baird | more info (via: Wylio)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...