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 ...
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 tool called Wrike - again, I'll get to it... And, last but not least (and not actually last in chronological order), Igor from Concept Draw sent me a free ...
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 ...