I’m in and out of the same folders a lot and some of them are a few layers deep. Working through that hierarchy is monotonous and inefficient. Using Office 2003’s, I added these frequently used folders to My Places (the bar to the left in many dialog boxes)—it’s a great shortcut. Simply choose Add To My Places from the Tools menu.
Top 10 Tools for Managing and Automating Your Media Downloads
Posted on August 9, 2010 by hunghuynh
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You’re handy with BitTorrent, you’ve learned your way around Usenet, and you have all kinds of files streaming onto your hard drive. Learn how to automatically unpack, rename, convert, and otherwise make your media ready for viewing with these 10 helper apps.
Note: Both BitTorrent and Usenet, referenced throughout this list, can be used to trade free media, but have also been used to download copyright works. We leave the decision on how to best use download networks, and come to an understanding of how content creators are compensated, to the individual user.
Update: For a few hours after posting, this Top 10 had a duplicated item due to a copy/paste error (yes, it gets that simple, sometimes). It’s now restored with an actual 10 items.
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Ubuntu’s two big advantages over Windows and Mac
Posted on July 30, 2010 by hunghuynh
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I’ve been using the latest version (10.04) of Ubuntu Linux since April and there’s a lot to like about it. I announced earlier this year that I was giving desktop Linux another look, and I went with Ubuntu because it is the Linux distribution most focused on a desktop OS. I have lots of observations about the Ubuntu experience and how it compares to Mac and Windows, but I’m going to save most of that feedback for another article.
Today I want to talk about two significant advantages that Ubuntu has over Windows 7 and Mac OS X. This came up last week because Apple displaced Oracle as the new world leader in security vulnerabilities, according to a report from Secunia. And Ars Technica astutely pointed out:
The report includes cumulative figures for the number of vulnerabilities found on a Windows PC with the 50 most widely-used programs. Five years ago, there were more first-party flaws (in Windows and Microsoft’s other software) than third-party. Since about 2007, the balance shifted towards third-party programs. This year, third-party flaws are predicted to outnumber first-party flaws by two-to-one. Secunia also makes a case that effectively updating this third-party software is much harder to do; whereas Microsoft’s Windows Update and Microsoft Update systems will provide protection for around 35% of reported vulnerabilities, patching the remainder requires the use of 13 or more updating systems. Some vendors-Apple, Mozilla, and Google, for example-do have decent automatic update systems, but others require manual intervention by the user.
Google I/O: Google Wave
Posted on July 15, 2010 by hunghuynh
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Google Wave is a new collaboration and communication tool, with a powerful API and a federation protocol. In this track, learn about the underlying technology and how waves are used by consumers and the enterprise. In particular, Google Wave engineers will explain how to build wave-y extensions using the APIs, how you can run your own wave service, and how you can contribute to the technology.
All videos and slides are available below.
Fireside chat with the Google Wave team
Google Wave API design principles: Anatomy of a great extension
Open source Google Wave: Building your own wave provider
Making smart & scalable Wave robots
Google Wave Media APIs: Attachments can surf too!
Google Wave and the enterprise environment
Five Really Handy Google Command Line Tricks
Posted on June 22, 2010 by hunghuynh
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With the right commands, you can turn your favorite command-line text editor into a distraction-free Google Docs app, add new events to Google Calendar, upload images to Picasa or video to YouTube, backup your Google data, and more. Here’s how it works.
On Friday, Google released GoogleCL, a saucy command line program that interacts with Google services from any *nix-friendly command-line prompt (on Windows, Mac, or Linux). We spent the weekend playing around with it, and now we’re sharing a few of the coolest ways we’ve been putting it to use.
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