Category Archives: Applications

7-Zip tip – Quickly extract into a particular folder

Posted on 20 October, 2011 by Daniel

If you need to extract a file into a particular folder, what do you normally do? Some people may copy the Zip file into the destination folder, and then unzip it. Others may launch their unzip tool of choice’s file … Continue reading →

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Shoretel Call Manager: Outlook Integration issues

Posted on 1 March, 2011 by Daniel

Since we moved from Shoretel 7.5 –> 8.1, we’ve had a niggling issue that’s about to become a show-stopper on a new deployment for our entire Melbourne office. The client software is easily deployed via Active Directory and Group Policy, … Continue reading →

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mRemote: A Remote Connections Manager

Posted on 16 October, 2008 by Daniel

This tool should be a part of any self-respecting SysAdmin’s toolkit. mRemote is “a full-featured, open source, multi-tab remote connections manager”. What does this mean?, you say. It means you’ve got one neat console where you can manage all your … Continue reading →

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Be gone, extended view

Posted on 16 March, 2007 by Daniel

Does the “extended view” in the services console in Windows XP bug you? Want to change the default view? If so,

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Portable Apps

Posted on 30 November, 2006 by Daniel

This fine project has packaged up a heap of open source applications to be run from a USB flashdisk or similar. I’d seen the files on SourceForge before, but never had any use for them until today – when I … Continue reading →

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