Archive for October, 2006

QuickEdit mode in DOS Shell

Posted October 13, 2006 * Comments(0)

Funny the things you suffer with. I’ve been using cygwin a lot on windows lately and decided to see if it had better support for cut and paste than the DOS shell does. Quick google seach shows that it’s been available for six years on windows in DOS shell. For anyone else not “in the know”…
If you want mouse select, copy, paste in a DOS shell you can on win2k and above by enabling “QuickEdit Mode” from the shell’s property menu.

Yahoo Mail

Posted October 8, 2006 * Comments(0)

I’ve been using the beta for Yahoo mail for about three months now and I really like it. Say what you will about web2.0/ajax/ria or whatever moniker you want to attach to what’s going on on the web; web clients are getting very nice (regardless of the Rube Goldbergness of how some of it’s achieved). Read more »