MultiMonitor Support and Windows Vista, XP

Among my many gripes about Windows Vista (see My Struggles with Windows Vista), is the lack of truly useful window management shortcuts.  Multiple monitor configurations are becoming increasingly common, and the Windows desktop simply hasn’t kept pace.  Sure, if I’m willing to click on numerous UI elements, I can reliably move a maximized window from …

Merging 2 partitions into one

As ZLim noted, both Acronis‘ Disk Director and Symantec‘s (formerly PowerQuest) PartitionMagic will merge multiple partitions. Another program which does this is Paragon Software‘s Partition Manager. Before attempting to merge the two partitions you may wish to backup any valuable data so that in the event of a problem you will still have access to the information stored on the hard …

Thunderbird reply position

Sometimes I put up with computer stupidity much longer than I should. By default, Thunderbirdpositions the cursor at the bottom of the e-mail body when replying to an e-mail instead of at the top. I couldn’t figure out how to change it, so instead I rewired my brain to press Ctrl+r, Ctrl+Home to reply. Today I decided …

Configuring cron jobs on Windows

To setup a Windows machine to run cron.php at a specific time follow the specific instructions below. This can be useful if you are not familiar with Linux/Unix, or if your web host does not offer the ability to run cron jobs; you can run them remotely from your own computer. Note: These instructions were …

Install Zend Optimizer

Overview: The Zend Optimizer is a free application that runs the files encoded by the Zend Encoder and Zend SafeGuard Suite, while enhancing the running speed of PHP applications. Many scripts require that you have Zend Optimizer installed so you are able to run them on your server while decrypting and running them on the …