Universal Scrolling Pada Windows
Pakai linux? atau mungkin Mac OSX? mungkin anda sering merasakan melakukan scrolling mouse pada window yang sedang tidak fokus? Bagaimana? bisa kan itu dilakukan? Nah, sekarang saya tanya lagi, pakai windows juga? kalau tidak, tutup saja tab ini, karena kemungkinan besar, anda tidak membutuhkan 
). Tapi, kalau anda juga pakai windows dan juga sering mencoba melakukan scrolling mouse pada window yang sedang tidak fokus saat itu. Anda pasti jengkel, karena itu tidak bisa dilakukan.
Symbolic Link Pada Windows
Saya kerja pada banyak komputer dan beragam OS (padahal sih, cuma Windows 7 dan Ubuntu 
). Seperti yang sudah sering kali saya twitkan dan juga saya tulis di blog ini, untuk sinkronisasi dan backup data, saya menggunakan dropbox. Salah satu yang saya sinkronisasi adalah log pidgin. Ini penting, karena sering kali catatan kerjaan atau task yang harus dihandle, ada di sana. Termasuk juga informasi-informasi lainnya. Untuk anda ketahui, log pidgin saya, ada dari sekitar pertengahan 2007 sampai sekarang.
Kalau kita pakai linux, sangat mudah mengakali penempatan log ini. Di linux, ada yang namanya symbolic link, yang secara kasar, bisa disebut shortcut. Cara yang saya lakukan adalah, memindahkan file $home/.purple/logs ke direktori dropbox, lalu membuat symlink dari dropbox tersebut, ke lokasi awal:
cd $home/.purple; ln -s $path/to/logs/on/dropbox logs
Mudah kan? Ternyata, hal yang sama juga bisa dilakukan pada windows. Yaitu, dengan menggunakan perintah mklink:
mklink /D "C:\users\{username}\roaming\.purple\logs" "E:\my dropbox\somepath\purplelogs"
Hanya saja, ada sedikit limitasi. Perintah ini, hanya bisa dijalankan di windows vista ke atas dan pada partisi NTFS.
Wordpad Alternative For Linux
RTF, by far is the most useful format for writing notes. Well, what I really mean is some heavy notes that include some basic formatting like, bold, emphasize, underlining, custom size font, etc. On windows, you have the built in editor, wordpad. This editor is very simple in term of UI and feature completeness. But, that's what wordpad works damn well for writing heavy notes. But, If you work on linux, you can't easily find a good alternative that match wordpad's ease of use, features and UI layout.
Fixing File Extension and Registry Problem
Sometimes when there is a new software launched, we want to know how it works, what is the difference with the other software that has the same functions, is that new software user-friendly enough, etc. Unfortunately, this kind of experiments can lead to inconsistency and even broken registry.
Finding tricky device drivers
My old PC with Intel Pentium 3 processor has been attacked by some virus and I have to format it and reinstall the operating system. Everything went smooth until time to install the drivers. Since I use Windows 98 for its operating system, the installation of the drivers can be somewhat tricky. I must find the USB driver, motherboard driver, sound card driver, display adapter driver, network adapter driver, printer driver and also modem driver.
File Extension Repair
Someday, I got a problem with my windows box. I got so many application installed and uninstalled, which generate much inconsistency and broken file type. Hahaha, this is the result of my experiments. I really like to download and install so many application from internet. Just to know how it work, how they handle user experience, how the GUI laid out. What is the best GUI solution for some applications, etc.
How To Surf The Net (in Windows Environment)
- Launch IE
- Open firefox.com
- Download firefox
- Install
- Close IE
- Launch firefox
- Now, we're ready to surf the net.
