Archive for March, 2008
So you have an OVERZEALOUS ADMIN WHO LIKES USING CAPS LOCK?
How About Someone That Capitalizes Every Word In A Sentence?
Does That Bother You? Need To Change ALL CAPS to all lowercase?
Don’t retype it use this quick key combo…
Go ahead select some text in any app that uses Word as its editor. That’s Word, Power Point [...]
The good folks over at Matias send us their Matias Folding Keyboard. When it is unfolded you have yourself a full sized keyboard at your disposal. Its full size is 18 x 5 inches. When you decide to fold and store the keyboard it shrinks to a 10 x 5 inch size.I really [...]
We have had more than a few questions asked about how to get VNC working on Ubuntu. It seemed either you had it working already or you didn’t and no one could explain how to do it.
We found this how to on Lifehacker but the meat of the post came from a little know blog [...]
The rules of the Administrator account changed in Vista. Did you hear?
What do you mean you didn’t get the memo?
It was in between TPS reports and all.
Before Vista, the Administrator account was not hidden out of the box and most users used an Admin account for their every day work. Vista did away with this [...]
Yet another geeky week has come and gone. If you have been under a rock recently here are some of our favorite AtA stories that you might have missed…
Don’t worry we changed the titles to drive you crazy (as usual):
Drive people INSANE! April Fools day IS coming and all!
Annoy People from a far! Another [...]
So you don’t want to dole out the big bucks for some fancy smancy cd/dvd authoring suite just to burn cd’s and disk images? Or how about you don’t want the bloat from said suite?
No it’s probably that you are just like me and a big cheapskate when it comes to buying software!
Either which [...]
Going back as far as 2006 I have been hearing the word BitTorrent flying around the media like it was a four letter word.
Do you hear Mission Impossible theme music playing while you hunt your torrents down?
Shortly after the man (Pictured Left) had his way and the fall of the first generation of File Sharing [...]
This question made me go “huh?”
Then I thought about it a little and found a FireFox extension that does just that!
Yeah we know that you don’t have time to read ALL the Blogs that you want to! At last check my RSS reader had over 300 feeds. We found a little FireFox extension that made [...]
The guys over at Ghacks are awesome and obviously not just for Google hacks check out this gem…Today boys and girls we are going to learn how to get Vista’s Clear Type fonts for FREE! Just like AtA likes it!
As I said before the guys over at Ghacks helped me out today when I [...]
So now you have downloaded that .Tivo file from your tivo’s hidden web server… Now what?
Like we told you before your show is in there under a pseudo encryption based on your media access key. To perform our next trick we will be using a free tool called Direct Show Dump (DSD). This tiny 500k [...]
Oh my god they killed the T.V. …You bastards!
That’s right now you can watch South Park in all is over the top glory on line with out being a pirate (arrrr). Comedy central is serving up streaming goodness of your favorite show. I would go into more detail but Matt Buchanan of Gizmodo fame seems [...]
After figuring out I could edit Blogger blog posts from my mobile I decided to see what I could do with my TiVo while I am away. I went online and did some research. I found this tid-bit from Dave Zatz (Sling Media) and gave it a shot.Allow me to bring you kids up to [...]
Can someone tell me how and why this makes sense?
You do not have permission to view the current permission settings for Properties, but you can make permission changes… WTF?
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So a fellow writer on MakeUseOf – Tina put me to this quick Windows tip that I surprisingly never heard of before. I love things that cut out needing third party tools!
To rename a bunch of files with the same name and consecutively number them follow these steps:
Open a folder with files you wish to [...]
So am I the last one to know that you can do FULL out blogger administration via Windows Mobile 6? I had set up a post email account a while back that let me type an email send it off and it would be saved as a draft ( you can set it to post [...]
AtA shows some Mac love this morning with our Question of The Day.
Apparently you can – and get your IP and some other semi-important information as well. We can have this tidbit show up on your login screen each and every time you login with a lil’ old hack from MacOsXtips.co.uk
When you start up your [...]
We have all been stuck between a rock and a hard place at one time or another… Stuck staring blankly at a Windows machine that just won’t boot. I have been recommending this re-branded toolkit left and right recently so here is a little more information on it for you guys:
This nifty tool allows you [...]
I just got pinged from our geeky friends that there is a new gadget on the block this is a follow up to our Annoy-o-Tron Prank… Here is the Phantom Keystroker (Sounds perverted but is AWESOME!)
We love us some ThinkGeek stuff and now they bring us this new High-Tech Office-Based Prank Device. Perfect for your [...]
Mary Ann writes to us that she misses the graphical WinIpCfg.exe that came with Windows 98 and ME. She wants to throw it on a memory stick for quick access to IP information and a GUI for editing those numbers – you know like back in the day.
No worries Mary Ann we have got an [...]
You mean why would you want to add another TiVo to your home BESIDES THE FACT, you won’t have to go through bloop bloop withdrawal and watch commercials when you are in the non-Tivo’ed up room?
I recently got a new TiVo and after getting her all plugged in and on the network I realized this [...]
You sure can Ping websites, servers or what have you right from within The Fox! All it takes is some clever bookmarking ala Lifehacker and a website added to your favorites. And yes it is all sorts of cross browsing/pinging goodness. As it works anywhere where any version of FireFox will run!
Fire up the fox [...]
A reader from Idaho was seriously freaked out after a late night at the computer and sent us a picture of their task manager in a strange state.
They asked for their identity to be with held so here is a screen-shot of a random person’s task manager in a similar mode.
Have you seen this before? [...]
This was brought back from the AtA archives for several readers! We normally stick to our computers and such but REVENGE is always a good topic! Lets put our love of gadgets to good use…“Alright let me start out by saying there is this woman who works in my office, who is SUPER annoying. She [...]
Good weekend kiddies,
Comodore64 back again to shed some light for any newly ordained Mac users that are carrying over from the M$ world. Since Mac is gaining a kind of strangle hold on the industry, I’m pretty sure there are a lot of guys like myself who have a PC for certain purposes and a [...]
No matter how big your hard drive is, it will always get to the point where you need to make some more room for something else. On today’s post I will go over a few great tools to cleanup programs and other junk files from your computer. Great M$ Alternatives for free for you [...]
So its late in the afternoon and you don’t have much work going on so you are all up on the net and then BAM!
You broke the Internet for everyone. You brought down the network. You seriously flucked something up. We all know it was something you did but what was it??? You got an [...]
Thanks to the good people at HP, I have been playing with reviewing the HP Compaq 2710p Tablet PC (MSRP 1,599). It was my first real experience with a tablet and I loved every second of it.Don’t get me wrong I have played with them before but, I have not used one as my main [...]
What a unique concept… Look like you are working on a word document but ACTUALLY you are surfing the web. This is very cool (not if you are the boss of course) http://www.workfriendly.net makes your favorite web page – work friendly. Check it out:
So it wordifies your page to look like a word document with [...]
Hey everyone! Scott here from AndroidGuys, doing a little guest blogging today for AskTheAdmin. Thanks to Karl and the other guys for allowing me the opportunity to reach out and talk with his audience.
A common concern with bloggers is where they show up on a Google search and there’s a good reason for [...]
Has anyone else this year had a hard time coping with daylight savings time?
I have been getting up at 6 AM since my daughter was born which was fine and dandy because it was light out. Now I get up and its dark as shit outside. I try to do things quietly and quickly and [...]
What’s up ladies and gents! This is your friendly Admin Igor…contributing to the great ATA.
Admins, do you have one of those people that is a human in body but a pack rat at heart? And you just can’t help it but look at their inbox size climb? Well… things are about to change..and for the [...]
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Combine all this useful information into a single sidebar. No more muss and fuss opening and closing sidebars to locate that info you need. We know AtA readers need their information fix real quick like. So just click [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
Commodore here bringing you another installment of geeky goodness.
Every once in a while an application comes along that simply becomes a staple in your data diet. A requiem for your software library that just seems to always be useful, especially if you follow the advice and antics of The Admin here [...]
Your Admin lives in a world of power bricks, adapters and all sorts of inconvenient power connecting do-hickeys.
It seems most manufactures couldn’t care less about how many other gizmo’s need to be plugged into the same UPS or Power Strip.
This PowerSquid has changed all that. At $13 I bought 10 of these and revolutionized my [...]
Adam Pash covered this tiny app on LifeHacker a while back. This Resizeable goodness is ever so cleverly called resizeenable and it lets you resize system windows that you normally could not. You guys always seem to find what I am looking for before I’m looking for it! Thanks LifeHacker…
Some of you may wonder why [...]
James’s question is a good one and can help you do a bunch of stuff with the set it and forget it mentality. A lot of you know about this but do you actually use it to your benefit? Keep reading…
I believe James is speaking of the Windows task scheduler. A easy versatile scheduler for [...]
My beta invitation came through a little while ago (WE HAVE MORE! 4/10/08) and I couldn’t wait to fire up the fox and give her a shot. I gave my first Aviary online application a spin and all I can say is WOW!
The application AtA got to beta test today (we have 5 beta invites [...]
From AtA’s earlier days:
Reader Elizabeth (who knew we had so many female readers!) wrote to us that she moved her Word document off the screen so she can only see the bottom half of it.
She didn’t save it and can not move or close it. We have all done this before, moving windows around willey [...]
Happy Saturday guys! Your very own Admin aka Karl L. Gechlik has a new post up on the world famous MakeUseOf.com answering this very question.
Check out this excerpt and if you are into it, go check out the post! Show us some love! Comment and let them know who sent ya!
Hey MUO readers! For those [...]
This question came in and it struck a personal note for me because it was something that would have made me from a year ago a lot more productive.
I used to make some serious cheddar trolling craigs list looking for tech work. That was when I had so much time on my hands I didn’t [...]
Joanne in Brooklyn wants to pass the time while her boss is out of time and get some game playing going on her flat panel monitor. What is she suppose to do… Work?
She was tired of playing solitaire we pointed her to the Google Image labeler that got me addicted a while back but no [...]
Its all about how lucky you are feeling today. Or well how lucky Google thinks you are. Bambi (that is her real name) has a web site which i cannot will not want to am prohibited to show.
Lets just say its an acquired taste illegal in most states, But I [...]
For all of those early adopters out there that are still into Microsoft…
Did I clear the room? Well for the two of you that are still left the Beta of Internet Explorer 8… Yes IE8 has arrived on the scene for you to help the big guys in Redmond troubleshoot and debug this first round [...]
John from Maryland writes in that he wants to display some sort of widget or as he said it… “Doo-Hickey” to show off the multitudes of people looking at his page. We covered this exact sort of thing a long time ago during revision .01 of AskTheAdmin.com.
The module got axed somewhere along the way but [...]
We love geeky comics and have found really likebecome hopelessly obssesed with XKCD! Here are a few of our recent favorites… (click on them for a larger view)
We came upon this link for a ftp like directory listing to get your time wasting on! Share your favorite past strips with us!! Do you have another [...]
So we flopped around Google’s website yesterday and stared in disbelief as the only answer to backup or export your data still seemed like a crappy work-a-round.
But it looks like WordPress one up’ed Google’s Blogger by adding an Import feature to their WordPress 2.0!
It also works with LiveJournal, TypePad and MovableType.
It only works with NEW [...]
We are talking today about What goes into a good web site design and have Daniel Burka with us to answer a few questions. Daniel has some amazing work under his belt from his career at Silverorange but you probably know him from his Digg/Pownce claim to fame. He will also be presenting at WiF [...]
Brought Back Up Top By Popular Demand…
Have you ever wanted to copy the path of a file located deep in your hard drive’s under belly (that you call a hard drive structure)? We are pretty sure you have one time or another, seeming that you are here at AskTheAdmin.com reading this article…
We previously covered how [...]
More specific Spotlight searches for our Mac friends! Spotlight searches are sometimes not as good as they should be, especially if you have a lot of files with similar names.
It is possible to narrow your results down by specifying the type of file you are looking for by adding “kind:type of file”.
Here is an example [...]
Hey Kidlings,Commodore 64 here with a quick how to in photoshop. Have you ever downloaded an image you’d like to use on your website but it was sandwiched on top of some ghastly color which totally doesnt fit with your “flow”? Well here is a quick, no-frills, way to a transparent image that you can [...]
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