I have never been a fan of Apple, never bought an iPod, MAC, or anything on their product line. I am a hardcore Microsoft technologist and I have earned my keep through my Microsoft skills and as such my loyalty to the software giant.
But I had a different perspective when I first held an iPhone in my hand, deep inside I wanted to have one but didn’t go ahead and get myself an iPhone because after much research, I could not use .NET to program in iPhone.

The gate seemed to open when Novell announced on Monday about a kit for …read more

The terminal is an important aspect of Cygwin like for any Unix-based OS. For this reason, you might see its users like me chasing after fancy ways of beautifying it. Well, I will try to make this the last time.
Poderosa is the best terminal emulator for Cygwin that I have come across. It has a tabbed GUI, much like the PuTTY Connection Manager. However, in addition to the network communication protocols through which one can connect to a remote system using PuTTY, local Cygwin shells can also be opened using Poderosa. I use it mainly for the latter purpose.

Poderosa allows …read more

PuTTY is a free Windows client that allows users to log into remote systems through raw, Telnet, SSH, remote login, and serial connections. It is primarily used for logging into UNIX systems through Telnet and SSH, and at 444KB (direct executable) is  very popular with UNIX lovers even though its last version of 0.60 beta has not been updated in nearly two years.
I recently discovered that there is a tabbed version of PuTTY called the PuTTY Connection Manager allowing multiple PuTTY instances in a single window.

PuTTY Connection Manager has several other features like workspace customizations, auto-login and post-login commands, Import/Export …read more