http://harrycoal.co.uk Routine Adventures on the Internet Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:53:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I never learned to type correctly.  I've tried several programs to help me improve but my favourite is Gtypist.  It's available for both Windows and Linux and has helped me improve my typing technique a lot. Download Gtypist Windows version: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/w32_binaries/ Linux version: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/ http://harrycoal.co.uk/2008/08/31/learn-to-touch-type-with-gtypist/ I've had this batch file lying around for a while now, it comes in useful from time to time.  On Windows machines with many users, sometimes it's nice to clean out the temp and temporary internet folders once in a while.  This is especially useful on Terminal Server where there ... http://harrycoal.co.uk/2008/08/20/delete-temp-files-for-each-user-profile/ 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 ... http://harrycoal.co.uk/2008/07/28/run-thunderbird-in-tray-at-startup-on-linux-using-all-tray/ After receiving some good feedback from users who have downloaded my Tomfox Firefox extension for Tomboy Notes, I'm releasing an update.  Here's what's new: International Language Support: other special characters are now handled correctly as well (Thanks, Wenliang) New option "Default Notebook".  Notes will automatically be filed under a notebook called "Snippets".  ... http://harrycoal.co.uk/2008/07/27/tomfox-new-version/ 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/ http://harrycoal.co.uk/2008/07/21/my-tomboy-firefox-extension-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: "Due ... http://harrycoal.co.uk/2008/07/18/handy-recovery/ 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 ... http://harrycoal.co.uk/2008/07/18/map-network-drives-depending-on-group-membership/ 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 Windows when I wanted to get something done.  The past few months I've been using it more and ... http://harrycoal.co.uk/2008/07/15/switching-to-ubuntu/