Archive for April, 2007

XPde: Make Your Linux Desktop Look Like XP

New users often face problems understanding the Linux desktop environment when they start using it, the problem grows to become a challenge when they have no prior understanding of Linux. Many quit using Linux after few weeks of numerous attempts to get used to the desktop environment, needless to say the desktop of XP is [...]

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NetPing: A Ping Utility that Does More than Just Pinging

NetPing is a free utility that is many steps ahead of the standard command line ping utility, found in Windows family of operating systems, in terms of features and functionality that it offers. The tool lets you perform custom actions on the computers that it shows. It also shows you the response time, uptime of [...]

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Wayki: Create Your Own Markers on Google Maps and Share with Others

Wayki is a free service that lets you create your own markers on Google maps and share them with other by linking to them from your website or blog. You can also add a photo, message or a place on the map to share. The interface is pretty easy to work with and creating a [...]

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Remote Boot Diskless Clients in Linux with DRBL

DRBL is a small piece of software using which you will be able to use your old hardware to remote boot into a central Linux server and perform several tasks with ease. Specially useful for large networks where lots of diskless clients can perform variety of tasks, can also be used at your home for [...]

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5 Reasons Not to Resize the Browser Window of Your Visitors

Some website developers prefer to resize the browser window of the visitors, without their permission, to display their own creativity in terms of flash, presentations and other graphics in either a full screen window or a browser window size that best displays what they have created. These developers either just do not know that it [...]

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Monetize Your Web Site Traffic using Video Ads from Gaiam and GT Media

Are you looking for ways to make money online by leveraging your website traffic?
Look no further, Gaiam and GT Media have an affiliate marketing program, through Linkshare affiliate network and managed by AMWSO, that lets you add video ads to your blog posts and website pages with an affiliate tracking ID embedded into it. [...]

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108 Commands You can Execute from the Run Command Prompt in XP

Mentioned below is a list of 108 commands that you can execute from the ‘Run’ command prompt in XP. All you have to do is click on Start » Click Run and type the below commands to run the respective application/tool.

COMMAND
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Will run the following app/tool

access.cpl
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Accessibility Controls

hdwwiz.cpl
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Add Hardware Wizard

appwiz.cpl
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Add/Remove Programs

certmgr.msc
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Administrative Tools

charmap
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Character Map

chkdsk
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Check Disk Utility

clipbrd
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Clipboard Viewer

cmd
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Command Prompt

dcomcnfg
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Component [...]

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