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Launchy vs Executor - memory requirement
Featured Windows Download: Executor Is Impressive, Full-Featured App Launcher
Executor is also very fast and lightweight, eating just over 10MB of RAM in Task Manager.
On my laptop, Executor used up 7x more memory than Launchy and it was indexing less directories than Launchy.
Launchy is more lightweight than Executor.
Read Daily Bread easier with python
I live in Malaysia which is GMT+8.
When I open the Daily Bread in the morning, it shows me the previous day’s devotion because Malaysia’s time zone is ahead of Daily Bread’s. However, Daily Bread allows me to read ‘ahead’ by clicking on any date on a calendar on the website.
Well, I don’t like to do [...]
Run office PC from home
This morning, I learnt how to switch on my office PC from home.
In my scenario, my office has citrix which I can log in to.
Before this morning, I had to leave my PC on before I left work if I wanted to use it from home. At home, I would log on to citrix and [...]
Is Microsoft SteadyState useful ? Did not work so well for me
Featured Windows Download: Windows SteadyState Creates a Wreck-Proof Space for Kids, Experiments
Windows XP/Vista only: SteadyState, a free Windows utility offered by Microsoft, is a handy tool to have if you’ve got kids, friends, or just a program or two that could possibly wreak havoc on your system
It did not work so well in my experiment. [...]
No Internet Access after Microsoft update KB951748 - for ZoneAlarm users
ZoneAlarm SmartDefense Research Center
Sudden Loss of Internet Access Problem
Date Published : 8 July 2008
Date Last Revised : 9 July 2008
Overview : Microsoft Update KB951748 is known to cause loss of internet access for ZoneAlarm users on Windows XP/2000. Windows Vista users are not affected.
Impact : Sudden loss of internet access
Platforms Affected : ZoneAlarm Free, ZoneAlarm [...]
Read Office 2007 files with Office XP, 2000, 2003
Download details: Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. The Compatibility Pack can also [...]
Not happy with CompanionLink for Google
When I was looking for a software to synchronize my Palm information with Google Calendar, I found CompanionLink for Google.
I could not find any review for CompanionLink for Google but bought it anyway because there were not many alternatives available.
It has given me many problems.
Some of them are - my Palm and Google records [...]
Automatically log everybody out from GP
One of my gripes about Microsoft Dynamics GP deployed on citrix is that it’s very easy for users to leave their GP session running when they leave citrix.
Users often think they have exited GP when they close the citrix window.
The problem with this is that the GP sessions take up license seats and if somebody [...]
After upgrade Wordpress, get xmlrpc invalid response error
If anything has gone wrong the first thing to do is go through all the steps in our extended upgrade instructions. That page also has information about some of the most common problems we see.
Upgrading WordPress « WordPress Codex
I recently upgraded Wordpress manually following the instructions at Upgrading WordPress « WordPress Codex. Soon after, [...]
Guido’s Google App Engine application
..Guido van Rossum announced today that he open sourced the code for Code Review, a Google AppEngine app he released last week
Agile Testing: Guido open sources Code Review app running on GAPE
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