low-tech solutions

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If you value your privacy, do this now…

I’ll keep it short and sweet. Was browsing this new twitter thing that all the kids are playin’ with and I saw an link to this story: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again. Short version: You can create cookie-like objects with flash, that: Don’t get deleted from your machine when you clear cookies Can be used to re-spawn browser-based cookies if you delete them Can do a whole bunch of annoying stuff that you probably don’t want done to your machine To disable this on your browser, go to the following...
Posted On Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:40 PM | Feedback (2)

Remotely Enabling Remote Desktop from the Command Line

Okay, this is a very easy find if you search for it…but also very handy (Thank you My Digital Life). Save as a CMD file and use as directed… @echo off @echo Remote RDP Enable Script by My Digital Life @echo ---------------------------... @echo. setlocal if {%1}=={} goto syntax :loop if {%1}=={} goto finish set remote="\\%1\HKEY_LOCAL_MAC... Server" shift reg.exe ADD %remote% /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f>;nul 2>&1 if NOT...
Posted On Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:26 PM | Feedback (0)

Very Impatient & Moderately Lazy: Shortcuts

Very impatient, moderately lazy; I use the keyboard to do whatever I can whether I’m in Visual Studio, navigating the web, or just moving around the O/S. For example, if I need to launch word I’m just going to hit the Windows Key + R and then type WinWord. I use that technique for basically anything I know the application name for…notepad, calc, whatever. If the application name is “too much” for me to type I’ll create a real old-skool bat file and throw it into my C:/Windows/System32/ folder. A...
Posted On Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:35 PM | Feedback (0)

Pandora Time Out Annoyances? The 1991-style workaround.

I usually don’t stray off the .NET path too much but…I listen to Pandora a lot. I also happen to be a nutcase that listens to music throughout the entire night. Well, if you ever listen to Pandora you know that after an hour it times out…and that can be pretty damn annoying even if all you have to do is go find the tab within FireFox that Pandora is living in and click a button. In any case, I created a really old-skool workaround for this. There are probably 900 ways to do this (another one that...
Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:44 PM | Feedback (13)

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