The Firefox extension DictionarySearch is intended to allow you to highlight a word, right-click on it, and select "Dictionary Search for [highlighted word]", looking up that word in an online dictionary. It is, however, very customizable. You can configure, as I have, the DictionarySearch add-on to point to any site you want it to. I have mine configured in both Firefox … [Read more...]
Creating Firefox Extensions
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...]
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...]