Stickies

A small program for making Post-it notes on your pc.
Very handy for taking notes, ToDo-lists etc.

It has many nice features, but not unnecessary ones like animated dancing naked ladies, so it's small and doesn't take up much system resources.
...and, it's completely free.

Zhorn Software - Stickies

Microsoft Visio

Storyboarding Rich Internet Applications With Visio.
Use layers in Visio to filter complex diagrams .
56 Visio Tutorials and Tips.
Then again...

msDos tool box

tnsping
- The tnsping utility is used to determine whether or not an Oracle service can be successfully reached. See more at OracleUtilities

netstat
- The netstat command is used to display the TCP/IP network protocol statistics and information. (more)

nslookup
- MS-DOS utility that enables a user to look up an IP address of a domain or host on a network. (more)

More msDos commands can be found at computerhope

Essential Opera Shortcuts

F8 : Set focus to address field
Shift-F8 : Set focus to search field
Ctrl-H : Hide Opera
Ctrl+space: Go to your home page
Ctrl+B : Paste and go in current tab
Ctrl+Shift+B : Paste and go in background tab
Ctrl+Alt+R :Reload all open pages
Ctrl+down : next link in page
Ctrl+up : previous link in page
Shift+arrows : Navigate between links and form elements

More can be found here: http://help.opera.com/Windows/9.23/en/keyboard.html

Toad

Ctrl+B                Comment block

Ctrl+Shift+ B    Uncomment block

F2                      Hide Script Output Window

view-options-window: auto-open schemabrowser

Nifty Linux commands

For a linux noob like me, who also has a lack of memory, this list comes in handy: Useful Linux-commands:
ls -la
passwd
write e5093
who
finger
w

Pretty Good Privacy - for free

◄http://digg.com/software/FireGPG_Firefox_plugin_for_GPG_in_Gmail krever at du har http://www.gpg4win.org/ (som er et underprosjekt av http://www.gnupg.org/ ) 2:08:01 PM◄linken til nedlastingen fra gpg4win virker ikke, så hent fra f.eks: http://files5.majorgeeks.com/files/42240455439aa23182bf604e3b202915/mail/gpg4win-1.0.9.exe 2:09:05 PM◄med firefox-addonen får du kryptering rett i gmail (og egentlig alle sider)

Firefox tweaking

I haven't used Firefox for more than a week, but allready I'm starting to like it, and I've done some tweaking to it :) Here's some of the stuff I've collected to improve Firefox the past week: Addons:

• Kvasir search
• del.icio.us bookmarks
• Download Statusbar
• PDF Download
• Paste and Go

about:config user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word",true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);
user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 0);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);

Note: Firefox is allocated 4096 KB of memory by default and in this configuration we give it roughly 65MB as denoted by the last line. This can be changed according to what is used.

about:config tweaks ripped from CodeBetter. To get more "screen space", I have moved the adress field and search box next to the menu (just right of Help). To do this, right click anywhere on the toolbar and drag the fields where you want them. Also, I removed the bookmarks toolbar by going to View - Toolbars and deselecting it. Since I'm using the del.icio.us addon, I'm not showing any addons, but I'm displaying my favorite tags next to the buttons (back, next, home, refresh etc). Finally I used the Customize menu (right click on toolbars) to select small icons. This all together gives me a cleaner browser with more space for the webpages instead of toolbars.

Essential tools for living online

I'm putting together a list of the most usefull online tools that I use daily. They're all listed on del.icio.us/hjornevik, but I wanted to get them posted here as well.
The tools I use most often are the ones that keep track of my rss feeds and bookmarks, and of course my web based email. With three computers to switch between (both at work and home), I realised I wanted to switch to an internetbased interface, for simplicity.

So, I wanted to collect as many things in one place, to avoid having to surf all around to do my daily "tasks". I finally fell for googles personalised homepage, and added to it a few tabs with different topics:
Main contains gmail, google reader, a date&time gadget, as well as a Reuters news.
News, which contains my selection of newspapers (mostly norwegian, but also some other).
Notes, which isn't the best name, but it contains Google Notebook and a del.icio.us-gadget displaying my bookmarks on del.icio.us, and also a Wikipedia search and a English-Spanish translator.
Bored is my selection of silly stuff, meaning PacMan, Chess, Sudoku and HangMan :)
(I'll link to those gadgets sometime later)

Next, there's the tools that I use for keeping track of my workout. Unfortunatly I was injured for more than a month so my runlog looks a bit silly, but still it's a very usefull tool...
Combined with mapmyrun, the runner's need for logging is complete.

I am also trying to learn spanish, and to do that I firstmost use the podcasts from CoffeebreakSpanish. The main podcast is free, but if you buy a premium membership you can download additional podcasts and a pdf-guide with transcriptions and vocabulary.
I also try to learn an additional word each day, and for that I use about's Spanish Word of the Day. I used to subscribe to this on email, but I felt like it was too much in my mailbox, so I've changed to check on the web instead.

In addition to this, I have some Firefox addons which helps alot, but I'll write about my Firefox tweakings in another post...

Finally though, I'd like to mention WiFi Directory & Hotspot Finder for Wireless Access Locations. This is a great site for finding a place to connect to the internet with your laptop. Only drawback is that you have to be online to use it ;)

P2P-television

Now would be a good time for some of the major media companies to look at new ways to reach audience.
With Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström (creators of Kazaa and Skype) using their skills and experience to develop a way to broadcast video using P2P network, the old fashion way is going to be old school pretty soon.

Joost, aka The Venice Project, will use the same peer2peer way of connecting computers for shared broadband as this guys have done with huge success before.
Instead of limiting the source of media to a huge server (which eventually will run out of resources/broadband when enough users connect), every user will share parts of the media to other users, thus making use of every bit available in every broadband cable around.

I believe this way of network sharing may be just the thing that jolts the larger media companies to think new.

I want to be able to search for programs which meet my requirements and interests, and immediatly be able to see them either on my computer, or on my tv.
Not just at home, but anywhere there's a wireless network available!

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Visit Joost, aka The Venice Project
Read "Why Joost is good for tv" on Wired News asd
Read "Hands on with The Venice..." on Engadget
Read "Kazaa, Skype and now the Venice Project" on BusinessWeek