crankygeek

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.

That’s the sound of me drinking up all the Apple Kool-Aid I can get.
I’m now the proud owner of a MacBook Pro and a new iPod (since Apple is practically giving them away when you buy a computer if you’re in education - on the downside, I’m just betting that solid-state iPods are on the [...]

Well, not “tricks” - just one. But it’s a cool one.
In Windows, you can copy the text of many OS or program error messages using the standard Windows copy keyboard shortcut; Ctrl+C.
The nice thing about this is that it copies all the text from the dialog in plain text, so it’s easy to paste into [...]

One of the downsides of Launchy is that it’s only an app launcher, so if you’re used to all the power of Quicksilver, it falls short. But I had a small epiphany this morning - if an app supports command line parameters, you can get a lot more functionality out of Launchy.
Using Outlook 2003 [...]

(This one is for Difranco because it’s Mac-ish)
Since I’ve been dabbling in Mac-land, I’ve been using the must-have Quicksilver as an app launcher. It does tons of other amazing stuff, but I haven’t gotten far enough into it yet.
QS is keyboard driven. Enter the keyboard shortcut to launch the interface, then type in [...]