If you open up a lot of PuTTY windows just to keep connections open, you might be interested in an updated version that supports minimizing to the system tray. I find this very useful for opening tunnels that I wouldn’t otherwise need to interact with on the desktop.
This new version also supports some really great options, including auto-reconnect, transparency and hyperlinking support.
If you open up the settings window and go to Window \ Behaviour, you can change some interesting settings.
The first setting I’d recommend is to check the box for “Accept single-click to restore from tray”, which makes it much easier to restore the PuTTY window.
If you change “Show tray icon” to Always, PuTTY will only minimize to the tray while holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on the Minimize button.
The transparency support can be turned on under Window \ Window transparency options. Just change the number to something less than 255 and click Apply.
Not entirely useful… but interesting.
This is a great update, well worth switching over to.
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I am not a fan of the delay that can occur between clicking the start menu and waiting for it to display. Here is a quick Registry tweak that will allow for the start menu to display more quickly
If you have an issue with your system clock losing time, you’ve probably had to go and re-sync your clock with the internet time servers. The problem is that there are just way too many clicks required to get to the right screen, so the command line is much simpler.
When it comes to Internet Freedom I believe the candidate with the best position is Ron Paul. You can check it out in his own words.
If you are a fan of the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox you might wonder how to change the script editor/viewer as there is no option for this in the UI. It’s even worse when you download scripts from some website and the line endings don’t work in the inferior default editor.
For anyone even semi-familiar with the Internet I am sure you are aware of the Ron Paul Revolution. His name currently is the #1 googled subject right now. The Ron Paul presidential campaign has basically taken over YouTube and his support has gained reputable positions on popular social
As a programmer and a fairly terrible web designer, I often need to select a color from an image somewhere on the screen, and it gets really tiring to take a screenshot, paste into Photoshop and use the eyedropper there.
Have you ever noticed that sometimes Firefox isn’t very responsive while loading a page? As a frequent StumbleUpon user, this behavior grates on my nerves so I went looking for a solution.
If there’s one thing that annoys me in Internet Explorer more than anything else, it’s that there is no way to re-open a tab once you’ve closed it. It’s especially annoying when you’ve done a lot of browsing so you have to sift through your history to find the link for the page you closed.
If you’ve switched from Yahoo! over to Gmail because you prefer to read your email in a desktop client such as Thunderbird, you probably are wondering how you can do the same thing with Yahoo! for free.
If you are the type of person that restarts your computer all the time, you are probably really worried about speeding up your bootup time. Unless you get paid to watch the Windows boot screen. I wonder how well that would pay…
