Archives for the 'Applications' Category
Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel
If you’re using Windows and you would like to mount an ISO file as a drive, download Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel v2.0.1.1 from Microsoft. Although the readme file says that it’s for Windows XP Home / Professional, I tested it on Windows Server 2003 and it works.
What I like about it:
No frills
Just run the EXE, […]
Large Text File Viewer
Today I wanted to open an XML file which was 550 MB in size. Knowing that Notepad would be way too slow, I opened it with Notepad++ (my favourite source code editor). It sort of froze, so I tried WordPad instead – still pretty slow. I decided to give Notepad2 a shot: even worse, it […]
More on Google Chrome
I’d like to build upon Ady’s excellent write-up on Google Chrome. I feel that Chrome has combined the best features of FF3 and Opera 9.5.
Features from FF3:
“Magic” address bar
Syntax-highlighted viewed source
Incremental find
Integrated Firebug-like tool! Absolutely cool. In Chrome, right-click and select “Inspect element”
Feature from Opera:
Speed dial, but Chrome’s implementation is much more intuitive. I didn’t […]
Update on Google Chrome
Previously I mentioned that by using the –no-sandbox parameter, I would lose out in terms of having one process per tab. Actually I was wrong. According to Mark Lawson from Google:
–no-sandbox disables Google Chrome’s sandbox protection that keeps the system safe from problems in web sites’ HTML and Javascript.
Using –no-sandbox, I do get one process […]
Google Chroming, but Missing the Point
nazham.com and dirn.name got me all excited to try out Google’s new web browser, Chrome.
Installation was indeed very fast. But then:
Oh no. Apparently everyone who is using Symantec Endpoint Protection is facing the exact same issue. I tried to configure SEP to ignore chrome.exe, but in vain. So now I have to run chrome.exe with […]