Pakku’s Blog

Dcebian based Linux distributions come with a very nice and useful application called: apt-get. It sort of keeps a database with all applications installed on your Linux system installed by apt-get. This can be compared with the ‘Add and remove software’ option in Windows but there is one major difference. Read the rest of this entry »

Software developers don’t have to make it easier for their users. Require more consideration and users will remember better, think up better strategies and work more efficient, according to Christof van Nimwegen. ‘of to much help, people become lazy.’ (Text: Peter Winterman;Translation: Pakku) Read the rest of this entry »

RSI is one of the most common complaints in our modern world. So in order to not end up like the guy next to this text, we need to find something to prevent us from getting RSI.

The solution is as simple as effective. We have to get rid of our mouse and start to begin using the keyboard to control the computer. For short: use shortkeys! Read the rest of this entry »

Always dreamed of a desktop on the web? Well now you can, I made a website: http://www.mywebdesk.org, it is a website where you can create an account (and by this create also an e-mail address) and with this you can access your new desktop, it provides everything you can imagine: games, office processors and so on. So try it and go to MyWebDesk.Org to access your new desk.

I’m not in for a long conversation, so I’ll just post the link to Vista4Experts. It is a program to turn of some features in Windows Vista. So to get rid of all those UAC pop-ups, it might be an good idea to take a look at it

Normally I don’t post more than 1 post a day, but it seems that there is a MBR-virus around the Internet so I thought I will help you fix this virus if you get one. Read the rest of this entry »

In Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) it isn’t very hard to print text, it can even be displayed before printing to see if it is good enough. But the print functionality itself isn’t very good, it is very hard to print a really good designed page. So what we want is something that can print text which is formatted so that it will print a very beautiful formatted page. Read the rest of this entry »

In order to get the best of the desktop combined with the best of the web, Adobe released AIR (codename: Apollo). Adobe AIR lets developers use their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. And with only a runtime to have installed on your system to run Adobe AIR applications, your new ‘desktop’-application can now run on any system like Windows, Mac and Linux.

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Let’s say I am in C:\Users\Pakku\Desktop\Crap\Old Crap\Tv Stuff\ and I want to go to the parent folder (in this example: ‘Old Crap’), I’ll give you a few moments to tell me where I can find the ‘Up’-button.

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The cave between desktop applications and Internet applications has always been in the world. But to date most people have a fast Internet connection and the demand of applications accessibility on every computer is growing more than ever. Imagine that you can access your files from every computer connected to the Internet. Imagine that you can run software without ever doing an installation. Imagine that can easily work with one file by more people. Imagine sharing files the easiest way. Imagine a new Internet experience. Read the rest of this entry »