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This article was written on September 07, 2006 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

Mozilla Thunderbird makes keeping up on my email a piece of cake. I don’t use it for my personal emails because I don’t get enough of those but it comes in handy for the emails we receive at CyberNet. One thing that always bothered me was that, by default, when you reply to a message it will put the quoted message at the very top. I know that is the professional formatting but I like having my reply at the top, since that will probably be the first thing that the person wants to see anyways.

It took a little hunting but I finally found the option to customize where the quoted message and signature are placed. Here is how you configure them:

1. Open the Tools menu and select Account Settings.
2. Find the default account that you send your messages with. Within that account select the option Composition and Addressing.
3. On the right side of the screen you should see the Composition options. Change them to whatever you would like but this is what I chose:
   
4. After I had saved those settings I went and tested to make sure it worked properly. Just find an existing email and hit the Reply button. This is now how my emails are organized:
   
   I drew boxes around the message that I started to type, my signature, and then the quoted message from the original email I received. As you can see it has positioned them exactly how I want.

This setting wasn’t that hard to change it just took me a little while to find it. For about a week I was copying and pasting my signature up to the top before I realized that there had to be an easier way to do this. I should have thought about it sooner but it’s the obvious things that I never think about.

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It was almost one year ago that we first got a glimpse of what Firefox Mobile looked like running on the Nokia N800. Then in January we saw some mockups of what their iPhone-like interface might look like for other devices, and even more recently we saw a video demonstration that knocked our socks off with an intuitive tab navigation system.

Where’s the project at now? The version that runs on the N800 is making some steady progress. As it stands the first Alpha release, codenamed Fennec, should be available in the next month or two. At that time they’ll have the basic functionality included, but the fancy things we saw in the latest video demonstration are nowhere to be found. According to Mark Finkle, Mozilla’s Platform Evangelist, those things are to come:

We have been focusing on some of the underlying, platform work. The UI changes will come in future releases to be sure.

The latest version, Milestone 6, is available for Nokia N8x0 owners to test out. Here is a snapshot of what it looks like:

A Windows Mobile version of Fennec isn’t a top priority on their list, but it is expected to debut at some point. There’s no mention as to whether other phones, such as the Blackberry, will also be considered for development.

Keep an eye out for the next milestone because that’s when some of the interface updates are supposed to land. According to this page on the Mozilla Wiki the end result should look something like this:

Recent Fennec Mockups (Click to Enlarge)

We’ll definitely be watching close as new versions are released, and will keep you posted of anything interesting that we find. In the meantime any of the Nokia N8x0 owners out there should take the new release for a whirl and let us know how it is. I’ve read a few reports of it not being too stable, but no one is giving up hope this early.

[via Mozilla Developer Center]

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Microsoft has released both the x86 and x64 platforms of Windows Vista 5381 today. This has surprised many people because this build was expected to be released as Beta 2 in the middle of May. This might mean that the build 5421 will get designated as Beta 2.

You have to be a Microsoft Connect user in order to download this build. The 32bit DVD is 2,296.55 MB and the 64bit DVD is 4,834.25 MB.

Microsoft Connect Users Can Download It Here
News Source: JCXP.net

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Time Saving Tuesday

If you constantly shutdown your computer, restart it, or log off then maybe you should think about creating shortcuts to do it for you. You could then save yourself a few clicks from having to go through the Start Menu. It is surprisingly easy and only takes a few steps:

1. First you need to create a new shortcut. To do this right-click on your desktop and select New->Shortcut.

   

2. A screen will pop-up asking you for the shortcut. There are multiple options that you can choose from which are explained below. For the first one we will just make the computer shutdown by entering in shutdown -s into the text box. Press Next to continue.

   

3. Now select a name for the shortcut. I went ahead and named this one Shutdown. Once you have entered in the name you can press Finish to complete the wizard.
4. If you run the shortcut (double-click on it) then you will receive a pop-up similar to this stating that your computer will restart in 30 seconds.

   

5. Okay, now let’s make this look pretty. We can change the icon by right-clicking on the shortcut and selecting Properties. Then press the “Change Icon” button and you will receive a window with a bunch of default Windows icons. Scrolling through them you should find the one which is normally associated with a shutdown button.

   

6. Finally, you may want to put these shortcuts in your Quick Launch bar so that you can quickly access them.

   

7. You can then repeat these steps and use a bunch of other commands that are available. Here is a list of what you can enter into the text box in Step 2:
   • shutdown -s : shutdown your PC and will show a 30-second countdown by default.
   • shutdown -r : restart your PC and will show a 30-second countdown by default.
   • shutdown -f : displays a 30-second countdown, forces all running applications to close, and will then shutdown your PC. This is especially great for when you are in a hurry to leave and want to make sure your computer will shutdown completely.
   • shutdown -l : log off the current user and will show a 30-second countdown by default.

   You can also throw some other switches onto any of those commands. There is a switch -t XX where the XX represents the number of seconds to display the countdown box. So if you use shutdown -s -t 00 then there will be no countdown box displayed whereas if you use shutdown -s -t 05 then the countdown box will be displayed for five seconds.

   Another switch is -c “TEXT” where whatever you type in the TEXT position will display in the countdown box within the message field. If you are doing a restart command you may want to use shutdown -r -c “Restarting your computer…” because the countdown box looks the same for shutting down your computer or restarting it. You can use the text to help you distinguish which option you chose. For me it doesn’t matter if I enter this text in or not because I set the countdown time to 0 seconds so the box never gets displayed anyways.

You can also setup these commands to be scheduled tasks but I would recommend the PowerOff software for doing that. I ended up playing around with the shortcuts for a little while and found it quite amazing what you can do with them. One bad thing is that there is no working command to put your computer into standby. The command that is available which everyone says will put your computer into standby really just hibernates it.

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This article was written on May 13, 2010 by CyberNet.

Windows only
There are a lot of integration points in Windows that developers can take advantage of, and many of them do. For example, if you have a program like 7-Zip or WinZip installed you may see related entries when you right-click on a file or folder. A lot of times context menu entries like these are done for your convenience, but at some point you may see something that you aren’t sure how it got there… that’s when you’ll turn to the free (and portable) ShellExView app.

With ShellExView you’ll be able to see all of the shell extensions that are currently enabled and disabled on your system. This includes things like the context menu entries described above, Internet Explorer toolbars, and much more. What’s even nicer is that any non-Microsoft extensions will be highlighted (like the 7-Zip ones in the screenshot) so that you can think twice as to whether those entries should actually be there.

Here are the various types of shell extensions that are supported:

• Shell Folder – Provides special system folders like “Printers”, “Fonts”, “Recycle Bin”, and more…
• Context Menu – Provides the ability to add new items to the context menu of particular file type.
• Drag & Drop Handler – Provides the ability to add new items to the context menu that appears when you drag a file with right mouse button.
• Icon Handler – Provides the ability to dynamically assign icons to file objects.
• Copy Hook Handler – This type of shell extension is called when a file is moved, copies, renamed or deleted.
• Drop Handler – Provides the ability to control the “Drop” behavior of files.
• Data Handler – Provides the ability to copy files/objects to the clipboard.
• Property Sheet – Property Sheet dialog boxes.
• Search Handler – Provides the ability to create a system search engine (Like the standard “Search For Files or Folders” module)
• Column Handler – Provides the ability to add new columns to the details view of Explorer window.
• Thumbnail – Provides the ability to display images in “Thumbnail” view.
• Browser Helper Object – Provides the ability to customize and control the Internet Explorer browser.
• IE Toolbar – Provides the ability to add new toolbars into Internet Explorer (like Yahoo! Toolbar)
• Explorer Bar – Provides the ability to add Explorer bars to Internet Explorer.
• URL Search Hook – Browser extension stored under Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks.
• System – All other types of shell extensions that ShellExView utility cannot recognize are categorized as “System” type.

Use this app to get rid of those pesky toolbars and/or context menu entries you don’t want hanging around anymore. Or, at the very least, you can use it just to verify that you don’t have any shell extensions installed that you weren’t already aware of.

ShellExView Homepage (Windows only; Freeware/Portable)

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