Bridge to Nova

Well, say whatever you want about this late news. Damn how could I miss this. The tool I always use to change the startup configuration for Windows is to run the handy “msconfig” command. I have been using this tool for ages and I haven’t noticed that Microsoft has implemented new tab called “Tools”.

Here is the screenshot of it.

There is a handy list of useful tasks for Windows XP and Vista. Depending on your versions of Windows, the list will be different. Anyway, why don’t you give it a try!

That’s why I love Google. They make our online experience enjoyable and fun. Just take a look at the following Google Reader and Gmail error messages. Yeah, they don’t always want to win too!

Source : Google System

Have you ever heard of Google talk? Of course, who could ignore big G IM client? But anyone familiar with Gtalk Lab Edition? Very few people left.

Let me introduce you the Gtalk Lab Edition. As the name implies, it is an experimental program from Gtalk team with the philosophy of bringing the web and desktop together. What differentiate Lab Edition and normal version is the use of the open source Webkit engine to host the Google Talk gadget.

Here is the list of features available only to Gtalk Lab Edition.

• Group chat, tabbed chatting
• Receiving notification from Gmail, Orkut and Google Calendar
• Option to set Gmail as default mail client
• Launch Gmail, Orkut, Google calendar from system tray
• Snooze option – temporarily stop notification

Wait a second please! Don’t get rid of your normal version for this lab edition unless you don’t mind of this missing features.

• file transfer
• voice chat
• option to hide offline friends from list
• option to change display picture

Yap. You’ve heard me. You can’t change your display picture in this lab edition yet. So it’s up to you to decide whether you’re willing to give up your existing features for the other cool new features or not.

Unless you are using Portable version of Firefox, changing the computer is a nightmare. When I have to use new computer, for the Firefox, I need to setup all my plugins again. The worse thing is the history list and saved passwords are gone too. How to save yourself from this? Well, it is not that difficult actually.

Firstly, you need to know where Firefox actually stores its data. Follow the steps below to make your way to new computer smooth.

The following needs to be done on donor computer.

1. First Go to Start –>> Run, then type %APPDATA%
2. Then go to Mozilla, Firefox, Profiles
3. You’ll see a folder name xxxxxxx.default. Open that folder, copy all the files and folder inside it.
4. Save all those files and folder on usb stick or network share where your new computer can access.The following steps are for new computer.
5. Repeat the step 1 and 2 as old computer.
6. You’ll see a folder name xxxxxxx.default. Open that folder, delete all the files and folder inside it.
7. Then paste the all files and folder that you copied from old computer.

That’s it! Your new computer’s Firefox will behave exactly the same way as your old one.

Are you using the putty as your main ssh/telnet application? If so, you might have to wonder from time to time where putty store the cache of host keys.

After I have been googling around, I have found that putty stored its hostkeys in the Windows Registry.

• First Go to Start –>> Run
• Then type regedit.
• Then Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys
• There you are you see all the stored host keys!

If you want to export all your keys to new computer, right click on sshhostkeys and choose export. Save the file with anyname.reg. And then just open the file from any computer you want to import.

Happy telneting!