For some reason, I wanted Thunderbird to run at startup, and to run in the tray. Email is just one of those programs I like to have running all the time, but I don’t want it cluttering up the taskbar. I wasn’t able to find an addon to make Thunderbird run in the tray the way I wanted, but after some searching I found AllTray which solves the problem perfectly.
After receiving some good feedback from everyone who has downloaded my Tomfox Firefox extension for Tomboy Notes, I’m releasing an update.
I’ve written a Firefox extension which adds a Tomboy option to the right click menu. Text can be sent to a Tomboy note directly from the browser. See this link for more information: http://harrycoal.co.uk/tomfox/
There are a lot of file recovery utilities out there, but my favourite has to be Handy Recovery. They are up to version 4 now, but they very kindly offer version 1.0 as freeware and it has always served me well.
Maintaining a lot of log-in scripts is a pain, especially the repetition involved in adding someone to a security group (Finance) and then mapping the appropriate network share (\\Server\Finance). I’ve recently switched to VB script instead of batch files. This lets me map network drives automatically based on group membership in active directory.
It’s took me a while but I’ve switched to Ubuntu completely. This is something I thought I’d never do. Ubuntu has lots of nice features, but I’d always boot back in to Window when I wanted to get something done. The past few months I’ve been using it more and more and have decided to switch over completely.