Archive for the 'Geek Stuff' Category

Firefox 3 Beta 5 trick - installing unsupported Add-ons

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

If you’re runing Firefox 3 Beta 5, you’ve probably already figured out how to enable unsupported Add-ons. But one thing I haven’t seen mentioned is how to install unsupported Add-ons when you start with a fresh install. The problem is that you won’t have existing extensions to enable and the new Add-ons site won’t let [...]

More FeedDemon tricks - custom mouse buttons

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I’m one of the (very?) few people who don’t love all of FeedDemon’s keyboard shortcut goodness. I use FeedDemon like a browser - all mouse all the time. Of course, that’s kind of a pain when paging through lots of posts. Awhile ago I’d broken down and started using the “J” shortcut [...]

Using FeedDemon Watches to filter out stuff you don’t want to read

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

I didn’t have the time to read through Nick’s recent deluge of FeedDemon tips, so this maybe a duplicate, but just in case, I had a bit of a Eureka moment earlier today.
One thing I’ve been bugging Nick about for quite awhile about is providing a means to mark posts as read automatically, what I [...]

NewsGator is giving away it’s RSS clients

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

In case neither of you have seen the news elsewhere, NewsGator’s RSS clients are now free, and that includes synchronization.
This is awesome news. By releasing their best of breed applications (okay, maybe I’m a little biased, but probably not) into the free-as-in-beer wild, RSS uptake should increase because the cost of entry has just dropped [...]

Sysinternals PsTools - Command line remote management

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Just blogging this so I don’t ever ever ever forget about it.
Sysinternals PsTools is a command line tool to remotely manage Windows computers.