I’ve been teaching myself computer stuff for almost two decades now. From computer applications to programming, to web design to any other coding needs. Part of that learning list was teaching myself some CSS. I recently found the Stylizer application … More
DOS has a few commands like find, findstr and sort which can be used to manipulate text. ($ help <cmd> shows the usage help for all these commands.) However, their usage is very different from those that a Unix user … More
Especially in systems that are part of an enterprise domain, you may have noticed a warning message after pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del and before the login window. It is called a Legal Notice. While it is irritating most of the times, there … More
While Windows Live Writer is a wonderful blogging software that lets bloggers work offline, it is poorly documented. Ironical. On top of it, the Windows Live Writer blog, much like other Windows blogs has no search feature to check for … More
The ability to minimize programs to the system tray has been made possible for a reason. There are always programs which we don’t intend to exit but do not use as frequently. During work, e.g., we open a web browser … More
If you haven’t thought of any Christmas gift yet, consider teaching your old computer-illiterate grandma how to use computers. The ultimate goal is for her to send you a mail, but to reach there are a few important steps one must learn. Here are six steps I can think of. More
Ever since I made the post about using dual monitors, one issue has been buzzing in my mind. What happens when you take a PrtSc of dual monitors? Is there a way to take only one of them? The following screenshots show … More
We have seen a few things about the .profile while customizing the Cygwin terminal. Here are the remaining sections of the file. Prompt export PS1=”\[\e]2;\u@\h:\w\007$green\]\u@\h:\[$pink\]\w\[$blue\]$ \[$BLUE\]” The PS1 is a defined environment variable that determines how a prompt should behave. … More
Cygwin loads its settings from a file called .profile present in the HOME environment variable. By default, HOME is set to /home/<username> which in Windows can be reached in C:\cygwin\home\<username> (assuming you have installed Cygwin in C:\cygwin folder). .profile … More
Dual monitors are all the rage these days. People whose work is closely tied to the stock market use dual monitors: the Bloomberg/Reuters terminal and the work monitor. In other workplaces, especially where there aren’t too many restrictions on the … More
