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(Free) Dictionary Softwares on Windows
On Mac OS X, its native dictionary application works well for me (especially the added Japanese dictionary in Leopard). I am looking for an equivalent English dictionary software on Windows. I have tried online solutions such as "define:Google" in Google and other websites but my internet connectio…
PuTTY authentication equivalent on Mac OS X?
On my Windows development machine, I use Pageant with a secret key to authenticate with an SVN server. I want to know: What's the equivalent Mac process for doing this? Pageant isn't ported, how do I authenticate?
How do I transfer a video from an iPhone 3GS to my computer?
I recorded a bunch of video on my iPhone 3GS and want to copy it all to my computer without emailing each one individually to myself (in addition, some of the videos are too big to email). Is there an easy way to do this? (jailbreak options ok as well)
Can a virus infect an ISO file?
I feel that it's going to be very difficult for a virus to infect an ISO file. What's your experience? Have you seen it happening ever? Is it not nearly unlikely? I ask because I've just found that my computer is infected and I wish to salvage as much stuff as possible. So I was wondering if I coul…
Is NTFS on Ubuntu stable?
Is NTFS support stable enough to use safely? I believe you have to install an additional package to make it work.
What's a fast way to copy a lot of files from an internal hard-drive to external (USB) storage?
I have a large amount of data - about 500 GB - on the internal hard drive of a desktop PC. This includes music, videos, PDFs... you name it. I want to copy everything to an external USB hard drive (1.5 tb capacity). The desktop PC runs Ubuntu. To begin with, I simply plugged in and mounted the hard…
What is overclocking the system?
I have heard this term many time and would like to know what does it exactly means?
Command to get usage % per CPU/core?
Is there a command I can use from the Terminal on OS X to get the usage percentage per CPU/core in numerical format on my dual-core iMac? I'm going to need to grab this every 5/10 seconds so I'm looking for something "low-cost" - that isn't going to hit the CPU too hard. Maybe something like , but …
How do you protect your computer from Live CD's?
Linux has grown in popularity in the past few years. Many more people are using Live CD's now than they were say 3 years ago. And with this comes a new problem for network admins. How do you stop a person from accessing certain file on the HDD that they, under Windows, would not be allowed to acces…
Is there any way to limit my Internet connection to a per program basis?
My Linux connection is REALLY free. I live in Brazil, so where I live I can only have 1 Mbit/s. Yes I know it's sad, but it's not the point. Everytime I'm updating my Ubuntu 9.04 or downloading something, it does eat all my bandwidth. Like, while update-manager is downloading the packages, I can se…
How can I stop big windows from resizing when I lock my workstation?
I have a multimonitor setup on Windows XP x64. If I have a window sized to be larger than a single monitor (say, a web browser that's wide enough for 2 monitors), and I lock my workstation, it will be resized down to a single monitor when I unlock the workstation. Is there any way to stop this beha…
How do I tell Firefox to only keep persistent cookies from sites I want?
Is there a way to tell Firefox to only keep persistent cookies from sites I want? I don't mind "session cookies" from all sites, but persistent cookies, I only want from a handful of sites to "keep me logged in".
Smart Word Selection in IE - how to disable?
Where can I configure in IE (or Windows) to stop it from smart selecting the words? I want to select like this... ... but IE simply doesn't allow me. I've figured it out for MS Word, but for IE, I've been unlucky with my searching so far. (In MS Word, you can disable this by unchecking in .)
Software to aid writing Research Papers
Have been working on this white paper for weeks, and have been having a very rough time with all the links and reference material i have found online, finally got them organized but this is a very manual procedure are there any software's that: 1) Organize , sort and bookmark your links and referen…
Searching through txt, pdf, and doc files
I need something that can quickly search through many .txt, .pdf, and .doc files (.djvu also preferable). Can anyone here name or recommend such a tool (Windows platform) ?
Backing up huge amounts of critical data on a local network
My father is a wedding photographer who produces around 50GB of data a week that needs backing up. He wants to guarantee the data he's backing up for at least a year. Currently he has three off the shelf NAS boxes, each with two 1TB drives in a RAID 1 config. This seemed good, but the boxes were ch…
What is the host key of Windows 7 Virtual PC and where can you change it?
Does anyone know which key is the host key of Windows 7 Virtual PC and where I could change it to a different one? Before Windows 7 the host key was changed in the option menu of Virtual PC but the new version is integrated into the explorer so there is no option menu for Virtual PC.
Specifying delimiter for Excel 2007 export
I'm trying to save an Excel 2007 file as a pipe-delimited text file but in the Save As list, I see only tab-delimited and csv options. How do I go about specifying the delimiter, which as I recall was possible in earlier Excel versions via a wizard?
get mplayer to start with a default volume other than 25%
I want to configure mplayer conf so that the player's default volume is not 25%. I have to increase the volume via the keyboard with every song/flick. I can only find solutions that simply over-pushing the soundcard...
What is Silverlight and how is different from flash? Why should I install it?
I went Microsoft's website and in order to see some videos is requests me to install Silverlight? Is there any benefit? I don't really feel like installing a plugin from Microsoft, but I wonder is there anything special I might be missing, or is it just the Microsoft substitute for flash?