Archive for February, 2009
SlickRun is a free floating command line utility for Windows.
Feb 7th
SlickRun gives you almost instant access to any program or website. SlickRun allows you to create command aliases (known as MagicWords), so C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe becomes MAIL.
Enter a web URL into SlickRun and it will launch your browser and navigate to the specified address. Run multiple programs in a few keystrokes, jot a note, look up a definition… SlickRun is the most natural way to interact with your computer.
Please note, SlickRun is not a "hotkey" program. If you want a program that lets you press some wacky keyboard shortcut (say, Shift + Win + 1) to run to something, you’ll want to find a different utility. SlickRun is designed to be far more intuitive than "hotkey" programs– You shouldn’t have to keep an awkward mental list of hotkeys for launching your favorite programs. Instead, just type whatever’s most natural for you to remember; with auto-completion, you’ll rarely type more than 2 or 3 characters anyway. Studies have shown that user-defined imperative words are much easier to recall than arbitrary characters like keystrokes.
Download SlickRun (175Kb) What’s New? Or Download the latest Beta version.
Note: During setup, you may be prompted to download some additional files. (Why?)
By using the Delphi Runtime library, all future updates to Bayden Products will be much smaller. Using the runtime is also more memory efficient. If you’ve ever installed the Delphi runtime before (for, say, another Bayden Product) you don’t need to install it again.
System Requirements
Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
32 mb memory
2 mb disk space
Early development efforts for SlickRun v4.0, a major rewrite, are underway. Track our progress here.
Online Help
Help files are here. Or, just type HELP inside Slickrun.
You can also discuss SlickRun and share MagicWord Packs with other users in the community.
Thanks NoneOfMyConcern!
Blackberry week from hell… Imail + RIM = No Love
Feb 6th
We are using IPSwitch’s Imail 10.1 and have no issues with it. It is relatively low maintenance compared to my Exchange Servers. We have been running Imail for years now since version 6. We have never had any REAL issues with it and it always acted as it was supposed to. It spoke only when spoken to and it never needed a time out…. (Yes maybe I have been spending more time with my daughter than my servers)
But on January 29th at 6:30AM Eastern standard time my set of T-Mobile blackberries stopped receiving corporate email. They still received pin messages, texts and direct email account messages but it will not grab my emails from the server either via IMAP4 or POP3.
I was not going through this alone and I had contacted RIM support first. After a long while of troubleshooting they told me that my server was disconnecting them after the initial connection. My logs said otherwise. Occasionally there was a disconnect but more often than not it was logging properly. Log on success. Log off success and yadi yadi yada.
When I got Imail on the phone and ran this down to them the tech scratched his head and then set up a test account of mine on his Tmobile blackberry. And low and behold he had the same flucking issue.
So now going on day 2 of the issue IPSwitch still has no answer but told me that their version 11 will support WIndows Mobile… I thought it already did. Will that break pop3 for Windows Mobile next?
Will they help me? Can you help me?
Can you believe my interns are reading email to execs as we speak??
Damn Crackberries!
_TheCanYouCheckMyMailForMeAdmiN_
Are there better tools for modifying and editing my registry? Regedit sucks!
Feb 5th
Are you tired of navigating to registry keys to make a small modification?
Don’t you wish you could display all your registry search results in one window instead of having to bounce around?
Do you wish you could copy a registry key to the clipboard and select open from clipboard…
To actually have the program navigate to that key for you??
Well those are now real options available to you thanks to NirSoft
Well this little free app will give you some piece of mind and hopefully make you registry modifications a little easier in the future. The program is called RegScanner
From their website:
RegScanner is a small utility that allows you to scan the Registry, find the desired Registry values that match to the specified search criteria, and display them in one list. After finding the Registry values, you can easily jump to the right value in RegEdit, simply by double-clicking the desired Registry item. You can also export the found Registry values into a .reg file that can be used in RegEdit.
Advantages over RegEdit find of Windows
- RegScanner utility display the entire search result at once, so you don’t have to press F3 in order to find the next value.
- In addition to the standard string search (Like in RegEdit), RegScanner can also find Registry values by data length, value type (REG_SZ, REG_DWORD, and so on), and by modified date of the key.
- RegScanner can find a unicode string located inside a binary value.
- RegScanner allows you to make a case sensitive search.
- While scanning the Registry, RegScanner display the current scanned Registry key, as opposed to RegEdit, that simply display a boring “Searching the registry” dialog-box. [TheHowToGeek via LifeHacker]
For more geeky registry action check out this sysInternals Command that will allow you to “Jump” to a registry key from the command line as well!
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Miscellaneous/Regjump.mspx
This little command-line applet takes a registry path and makes Regedit open to that path. It accepts root keys in standard (e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) and abbreviated form (e.g. HKLM).
Usage: regjump [path]
Pismo File mount audit package… What a name!
Feb 4th
Pismo File mount audit package is the name of an awesome little application. What this program lacks in name, it easily makes up for in features.
Quickly and easily mount ISOs and ZIP files read-only as either folder or a drive to allow you to quickly access the files inside through explorer, the command line, or other applications without having to extract them.
It can also create “private folder” files with read-write access that can be compressed (with compression better than NTFS) and can be encrypted. The installer is under 1MB.
[via EEEPCfourms]
Do you use something similar? If so – put us on in the comments!
I want to test some stuff without messing up my machine. Can you help me?
Feb 4th
Fellow MakeUseOf blogger, Mark O’Neil, put us onto a method of running an installer in a “Safe Space” using the Run As command (This uses “The protect my computer and data from unauthorized programs” activity check box).
This is a great method for running programs that might be a little suspicious. That little check box prevents the newly launched app from intermingling with protected system files.
I should remind you before continuing that you should only install software from reputable sources. And just a little FYI: BigFatPornSite32 or AllYourSchoolsTestAnswers is not a reputable source.
But if you just HAVE to install that iffy installer… If you got that itch and just can’t shake it….
Then you got a bad case of the downloads… and when your Admin sense kicks into over-drive it’s usually to late. So
before you Install that Pron Video Bootleg Game legacy application lets think about loading it up in a Virtual Machine.
(Edit: As another good use for this -as seen in the image below you can run a VM with Vista in it on your XP machine – this can be a HUGE admin tool in trouble shooting when you don’t run Vista or another OS.)
What’s a Virtual Machine or VM you ask? Good question!
A VM is another computer or operating system running within your current machine. Did I loose you?
Ok let me try that again. So lets say you are running Windows XP and you have a few Windows 2000 Pro Licenses lying around, from some older defunct machines. You can run that Windows 2000 machine within your XP machine. That’s right with a different virtual registry, hard drive and everything. Load up whatever junk you want and then you can easily revert back to your original image when you are done if you need to…
(When it Turns out BigBlondePorn32.exe wasn’t exactly what you thought it was.)
And best of all Microsoft VM is totally free. All they ask is that you use a legal license for your VM (as it is another machine and all). But if you are like me grabbing a COA from the computer graveyard isn’t a big deal. And look you made good use of something that was collecting dust!
Notepad2 does what Microsoft should have made Notepad do! Awesome Free Download.
Feb 2nd
Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system’s registry.
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
[Molly via EeeUserForums]
