Enable/Disable Last Access Timestamp in Windows
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The Last Access Time as it suggests is the time a File or a Folder is accessed the last time. This is quite useful and helps identify document age and status. This is disabled by default in Windows Vista and Windows 7 by default as this can add to the overhead of Disk I/O and performance although with the newer hardware this can be anything close to negligible.
Greasemonkey Firefox addon – Customize websites your way
My Firefox Addon today is something that doesn’t need too much of an introduction for avid Firefox users. It’s Grease Monkey Firefox addon. The Grease Monkey Firefox addon allows Firefox users to customise the way a website is displayed or it functions.
Update to Firefox 3.5.4 – lots of Security fixes
Mozilla has hurried the release of its new version of Firefox browser, Firefox 3.5.4. I would recommend users to upgrade to this newer version as there are as many as 11 Security Fixes of which 6 are critical and 3 are moderate and the rest of low priority. In addition to this they are also fixed a lot stability issues with the browser in general.
Disk2vhd – Utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) versions of physical disks for use in Virtual PC or Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs)
Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted)
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Search Preview Firefox addon to preview your search results
Today, my Firefox addon pick is the SearchPreview. Search Preview (previously Google Preview) Firefox addon displays a thumbnail preview image for website and its Pagerank (Google Search only).
