Enhance your windows console

windows-console Have you ever thought windows console looks boring and it doesn’t look good as Linux ones? Lot of programmers do so including me and try to customize the same. All Window’s consoles including PowerShell, Microsoft’s next generation shell doesn’t have much features for customization . So most of the users go for Cygwin and use XTerm instead which is quite unnecessary if you just don’t like the UI. A small tool called Console solves the problem  by providing console window enhancement equivalent to Linux.

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July 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

How to create your own private IM?

private im One might have encountered lot of private and public chat and real-time communication services like Yahoo! Messenger, IBM Lotus Sametime, eBuddy, AIM etc in the internet as well as in the corporate networks. But most of them are not opensource solutions and you need rights to customize them to suit your own needs. Openfire IM previously known as WildFire and Jive Messenger is a great opensource alternative and a highly customizable solution to those applications  which can be used in corporate environments.

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November 26th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

How to unlock files in windows?

file-delete-error Almost everybody who uses Windows Operating System will happen to see the error, “Cannot delete file: Access is denied” at least once in a while. This error is pretty annoying and it is happening because the file or folder has been locked by one of windows process. Sometimes a system restart will help to get rid of the error but one cannot do that amidst work and in some rare cases even a restart will not help. I have come across a nice utility called Unlocker last  week and thought of sharing it.

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August 28th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Find the HTML colour code of any pixel on the screen

instant eyedropper For any novice web designer/programmer/student choosing the right colour for the website remains a challenge and is much more difficult to identify the colour codes from a existing image or design. Though there are ways to find the colour codes by using eyedropper tools from Photoshop, Gimp and other imaging tools they are not good for a beginners to use it straight away. Instant Eyedropper is a free software tool that can help the users to find the HTML color code with ease saving their time quite a lot.

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July 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Change timestamp attribute of any file

file-timestamp Every file in your computer has got attributes like file creation, modify and last access timestamp. These attributes cannot be changed unless you write a program or use a software to do it. eXpress TimeStamp Toucher (XTST) is a freeware tool which can change the timestamp attributes of files or group files with just by a click.

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June 1st, 2009 | Leave a Comment