Tag Archives: Customize

Bowser Size from Google Labs

By Ajith | Published: March 12, 2010

Here is a handy tool that can be used to improve you sites bounce rate as well as accesibility. BrowserSize from Google will allow you to have a look at any web site with a pixel ruler overlay above it. You can see how your web site looks on different resolutions.

Posted in Internet | Also tagged Free, Google, Tool, Web | 1 Comment

Feedreader on your WordPress dashboard

By Ajith | Published: July 12, 2009

You can use the applets on your WP dashboard to view the feeds from one blog. It is quite straight forward. Although it couldn’t be of great use it is still be a funny tweak.

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Get access to all folders in Windows like Linux

By Ajith | Published: September 3, 2008

On the last article we have discussed about seeing all the files that are part of Windows. Now lets see whether we can directly access these folders. As it turns out Windows by default will not grant you permission to the folder System Volume Information. Thats because the folder contains important System Restore Point informations. [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Admin, File, Security, Windows | Leave a comment

View system files (super hidden) in Explorer

By Ajith | Published: August 26, 2008

This is the first among a series of posts on administering Windows . It starts with how to see the files and folders that were hidden by Windows for some reason. The series is actually inspired from the one done by Samanathon on Starting your Day with a fresh Computer. He did a good job [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Admin, File, Registry | 2 Comments

Change the default Drive Icons in Windows XP

By Ajith | Published: July 8, 2008

You can change the default drive icons available in My Computer under Windows XP through the registry. Although it is done via registry the task is pretty simple and straight forward. (You can also use the Autorun method – please read that article if you prefer to do so) Open registry editor ( WIN+R » [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Icon, Registry, Visual | 2 Comments

How to view all drives, Disk Management under Windows

By Ajith | Published: June 24, 2008

The Disk Management object under Microsoft Management console can be used to Change Drive letter association, find unrecognized partitions or Mount a logical drive into a folder as in Linux. If you want to prevent access to a drive, read 2nd tip in “Points to note” given after this post or read how to Prevent [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Admin, Tutorial | 2 Comments

Microsoft Management Console – make administrative tasks easy

By Ajith | Published: May 31, 2008

This is the start of a series of posts that will guide you through using Microsoft Management Console to manage your system. In this post most of the text has been excerpted from the MMC help file. The MMC allows you to control and manage the many available options from an easy to use interface. [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Admin, Tutorial | 2 Comments

Free Vista like search box for Windows XP

By Ajith | Published: March 12, 2008

The most functional and convenient tool in Vista is the instant Search Box. Here is how to get your own instant search box on for Windows XP. Launchy is a small software that provides XP with an instant search bar like Vista. Launchy Indexes the folders you specify and hides itself in the background. When [...]

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PC on steroids, Improve your systems perfomance – start of series

By Ajith | Published: March 5, 2008

This is the first among a series of post in which I will tell you many tips on how to make your System perform faster. The post frequency in this Series will be one post ( tip ) per week. So check out my other posts on all other days. Being the first in the [...]

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Host Files – local DNS lookup

By Ajith | Published: February 17, 2008

This is a basic introduction to the host file, how they work, how to block web sites or computers on LAN using a host file etc.. Host file is a text file that the operating system uses to store the IP address of computers having a physical name (or site address). It is located at [...]

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