I found this tutorial to be really helpful in understanding how to go about creating an extension for Firefox and Thunderbird: http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/ It takes a little bit of the magic out of .XPIs. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2008
ReNamer – rename files by the boatload
ReNamer is a very powerful and flexible file renaming tool, which offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences, changing file extensions, etc. For advanced users, there is a PascalScript rule, which let users program their very own renaming rule. Program … [Read more...]
Dokuwiki – A wiki back-end for whatever you need
Part of a series where I'll be investigating different infrastructures to support a small, but rapidly growing Knowledge Base, Dokuwiki has certainly been a breeze to setup and configure. Featuring a "typical" wiki front-end and simplistic "no-need" back-end, Dokuwiki is a pretty complete package. It lets you do almost everything that you would want to do with your wiki with … [Read more...]
USB Drive Letter Manager
My Computer can get to be a little over-crowded very easily. When you plug-in a jump drive Windows will automatically assign that drive a letter somewhere between D and H. Well, let's say you have a: Floppy Drive (A) Hard drive (C) CD-Burner (D) DVD-Burner (E) Then you also have some mapped drives to server shares: Group files (G) Home directory (H) That pretty much leaves F: … [Read more...]
What I’m looking for in a Knowledge Base
I am looking for a Knowledge Base infrastructure for our IT department for a few reasons. 1.) Our documentation is all over the place: FAQs, forums, documents on a server share, this blog, and people's brains. I'd really like to unify it in one location. 2.) FAQs are going the way of the past. They only highlight the frequently asked questions. We all know there are plenty … [Read more...]