Installing Windows Server 2008 RC1 on VMWare is dead simple.
First Download the necessary files:
1 Download the Windows Server 2008 Image from Microsoft
3 Download VMware virtual disk files
4 Download this VMWare configuration file or create an file here.
This is one of the best sidebars I have found.
It doesn’t suck up ram like Yahoo and Google.
It doesn’t mess up the Visual Studio short-cut Ctrl+Shift+B to build a project like Yahoos’ does.
It fits nicely on my both my 19 inch and 17 inch LCD’s.
First off DO NOT try to upgrade this phone to WM5 or WM6. It simply will not work.
The best you can do is to update the firmware. I bricked my PDA so many times I do not remember what I used to bring it back to life.
Check xda-developers.com for updates.
Bluetooth Headphones
I recently got a pair of Jabra BT620s Wireless Streo Headphones but to pair them up you need to patch the PDA with this: PDA2K_BroadcomCorp_BTUpdate.zip
You now have a the ability to use Bluetooth Wireless Headphones with your PPC6600.
Better Gmail
A comprehensive suite of Gmail enhancements, including skins, saved
searches, keyboard macros, secure access, attachment icons, attachment
reminders, label colors, signature floating and more.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4866
Google Send to Phone
Google Send to Phone for Firefox is an extension that enables you to
send short text messages of web page content to your mobile phone. For
example, you might text message yourself a phone number, an address,
or directions that you find on the Web.
http://tools.google.com/firefox/sendtophone/index.html
All-in-One Sidebar
All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is an award-winning sidebar control,
inspired by Opera’s. It lets you quickly switch between sidebar
panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in
the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar.
GSpace
This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.8 GB and growing)
for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files
from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable
system. The interface will make your Gmail account look like a FTP
host.
After the installation, you’ll get an option called “Gspace” in your
“Tools” menu, which opens the GSpace window.
del.icio.us Bookmarks
This extension seamlessly integrates your browser with del.icio.us
(http://del.icio.us/), the leading social bookmarking service on the
Web
Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools
at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor
CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
FireFTP
Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP
also includes more advanced features such as: directory comparison,
syncing directories while navigating, SSL encryption, file hashing,
and much more!
Web Developer
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
Google Notebook
Clip and collect information as you surf the web
Backpack Publish
Highlight text in your browser, then click the Backpack Publish button
to post the selected text to a Backpack Note, Todo List Item, or
Reminder.
Backpack Pages
Displays a user’s Backpack (backpackit.com) pages in the toolbar.
Toodledo
Quickly add tasks to your Toodledo.com to-do list from anywhere. You
no longer need to signin to our website just to add a quick todo.This extension gives you a contextual menu item that allows you to
select some text or right click a link to easily add it as a new task.This task manager also includes a sidebar which keeps your most
important action items in clear view at all times.An optional toolbar button gives you a one-click way to add a task.
GTDInbox
GTDInbox (formerly GTDGmail) discreetly integrates into Gmail making
it even more suitable as a GTD tool.GTD - Getting Things Done - is a simple and effective productivity
concept: designed so that even the laziest and most scattered of
people can be organised and stress free.
Google Calendar Notifier
This extension provides robust notifications and display of your
Google Calendars for today, as well as showing any upcoming all day
events for tomorrow.
Delegate to Remember The Milk
Allows you to create RTM tasks from Gmail messages.
Seriously over the past few months I have been so obsessed with finding the perfect GTD/Todo System that I have become less productive. I reached a point that I was downloading the same desktop system or signing up on the same site a few times a week. It’s crazy. I scower the internet looking for anything that is GTD/Todoish and I either sign up or download it immediately. Once I’m in I give it about a 5 minute once over. In that time I look for ease of use, Firefox plugins (very important), iGoogle/Netvibes modules, SMS options, email/gmail integration, lots of Ajaxy goodness, a mass import function and on and on. Then I’m done. Most of the time I never go back or when I do it’s because I forgot that I had already seen it several time before. What’s even crazier is that I use Todoist to track the sites I sign up for so what I come of my binge I have some trail to account my lost productivity. Oh but just to keep my self on the edge of insanity I bounce between using Google Notebook, Toodledo, Vitalist and Remember The Milk for tracking my Obsession as well.
During one of my “this is the last GTD site I’ll sign up for” binges I got all jazzed up about using Backpack as my personal nerve center. I set up several different pages for Todo’s, Contacts, Reminders, Links and what not. I gave it the bold title of “My Life Organized”. Then just a few days ago I stumbled upon my Backpack site and this should come as no surprise that the site was pretty much empty. The main page with the bold title was blank. Just the title “My Life Organized” heading on a blank page. No Todos, no contacts. Just a good idea not executed.
But it’s not just GTD stuff it’s everything these days. Firefox Plugins to Blogging and Task Management. Google Desktop, Yahoo Widgets, Offline Desktop apps and Outlook plugins and GMail Greasmonkey scripts. For gods sakes I logged in to Facebook and said give me one of every thing on their apps page. I had to reset my Netvibes account because it becme so over loaded with GTDish modules. I’ve got so many Greasemonkey scripts for GMail that when ever I open GMail in a new tab Firefox comes to a screeching hault and it takes up to 2 minutes to load my inbox. Oh and if the GTD app offers GCal/iCal integration you can beet your sweet a$$ that I’ve added it to my GCal account.
Wow, I’m starting to feel a lot better now that I got that off my chest.
So if you’re going to comment please do not feel the need to recommend any Web Apps or Software unless of course it’s a really cool one and I shouldn’t miss it.
This is a very easy hack that I created today.
Prerequisites
- You'll need a RememberTheMilk Account
- The Custom Buttons Firefox Extension
Once you've got a RTM account setup and the Custom Buttons extension installed you're ready to add the button.
In FF click View->Add new button....
A dialog box will appear with space to add a Name, an Image, some Code and Initialization Code.
The name and image are self explanatory. The Code box is where you'll paste the code below which will launch a new window that displays a form to add a new RTM task. The Initialization Code box is for code that will run when the browser starts up.
Past this JavaScript code into the Code box which will launch the RTM dialog when the custom button is clicked.
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javascript:(function(){h='www.rememberthemilk.com';p='/services/ext/addtask.rtm';if(window.getSelection){d=window.getSelection();}else if(document.getSelection){d=document.getSelection();}else if(document.selection){d=document.selection.createRange().text;};cp='http://'+h+p+'?d='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(document.title);w=window.open(cp,'addwindow','status=no,toolbar=no,width=475,height=260,resizable=yes');setTimeout(function(){w.focus();}, 500);})();
Click OK to save and close the dialog and then click View-Toolbars-Customize and add your new button to a toolbar.
Clicking the button will launch the RTM form and now you can add tasks right from Firefox.
This is an easy hack that took me forever to figure out. This all came about because I wanted to test out some browser computability issues within Linux. The normal easy way would be to download a LiveCD, burn it to a disc and then reboot a computer using the LiveCD. This method works fine but while I am at work I use a laptop running WindowsXP with an external keyboard, video and mouse and spend most of my time running Remote Desktop to other computers on our network. So instead of reboot my work station into Linux I'd rather just run Linux in as a Virtual Machine. Enter VMWare Player.
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