A little change

I am going to start to blog about some nice programs that help me get things done better and some of the nice thing they help me do. I use a program called DAEMON Tools to use ISO images on my computer. I also found a couple other tools that are like it. To download DAEMON Tools go to this website: http://www.disc-tools.com/download/daemon
This tool lets you load an ISO image on to your computer as an extra letter even though you have just one drive in your computer. You can actually have as many drives as you have letters in the alphabet. There are other types of images too such as .bin and .nrg and .cue files. Sometimes .cue and .bin files go together. You place the cue and bin in one folder. The cue file is very small. Then you point Nero to the cue file and it burns the .bin file for you. That is good for now.

Welcome

Welcome to Zoho Writer

Your Word Processor on the Web

Thanks for signing up with Zoho Writer!

Zoho Writer is the word processor designed for you, the next generation web citizen. Built using AJAX technology, it's fast and revolutionizes the way you work with documents. Having all your documents online (and offline too! we'll get back to that later!!), you have access to them from any computer, at home or at work. And no more emailing them back-and-forth to your colleagues, clients or friends for review, thanks to its instant collaboration, inline commenting and chat facilities.

It will take a lot more than this short welcome document to list all of Zoho Writer's features and hence a chosen few of the Zoho Writer's functionalities below :

Formatting Options:

Bold, italicize, underline, set back ground color & color your words, link to a web page,Set margins, use cool smileys and do much more. Use the same keyboard shortcuts as with any other word processing application for accessing these functions.

No Searching Within Menus:

Most functions are available at a click, thanks to the friendly toolbar. And for the super user in you, a few extra features are accessible with just an extra click.



Spell Check

What's a word processor without a spell checker? Zoho Writer's does all the dirty spell checking work for you so that you needn't worry about whether it's receive or recieve

Pictures

Want to decorate your document with pictures & images? Insert pictures and images in your Zoho Writer documents as you would in a normal word processor. Pull and place pictures both from your desktop as well as from the web. See how the image/picture looks like using 'Image Preview'. Shrink to fit in case the image/pic is of larger size.And set properties for the inserted pic/image like border, spacing as well.

Tags as Folders
	Get the best of both worlds. Tags are the new folders. Not sure whether you want to put a document in the Sales or Marketing folder? That's where tags-as-folders come in. Make the document available in both the folders! Now, isn't that handy?

Post to your blog

Being on the web, you can post to your blog from within Zoho Writer. As you have seen above, Zoho Writer's WYSIWYG editor is more feature-rich than a typical blog editor's. Be it Blogger.com, Wordpress.com, Livejornal, Typepad or any blog that supports metaWeblog API, you can make the post from Zoho Writer. You can add tags and make the post optionally as a draft as well!

Comments Add inline comments to particular paragraphs /sentences of a document. You & your friends (or your team members & your boss) canadd comments in a document you are collaborating on. Adding contextual comments is very useful for reviewing purposes. And this comes in handy for journalists/editors & teachers/students, in particular.

Bulleted Lists
Zoho Writer makes it easy

1. to have
2. numbered or
   
3. • bulleted lists.
   • And there is support for
     
4. multiple levels as well
5. 
   

Insert Tables Make tables and adjust the cell properties with ease. Pick easily the number of rows/columns.

Column Header1	Column Header2	Column Header3
Table Cell 11	Table Cell 12	Table Cell 13
Table Cell 21	Table Cell 22	Table Cell 23
Table Cell 31	Table Cell 32	Table Cell 33

Share your documents
Instead of mailing your documents to everyone, share them. And Zoho Writer makes it more than just sharing. You can give Read or Write permissions for each sahring participant. Collaborate real-time on the document and there's the added chat functionality as well!

Go Offline

Not sure you'll have internet access all the time? Zoho Writer allows you to take your documents offline. You can view your latest 25 documents now but editing support is coming soon. Stay tuned!

Integration With Other Zoho Apps

Zoho Writer comes from the widely diversied stable of Zoho. Signing up with Zoho Writer allows you to access a plethora of Zoho apps - be it our web based spreadsheet tool, Zoho Sheet, the online presentation creator, Zoho Show or the net meeting enabler, Zoho Meeting. The integration doesn't stop with just single sign-on. You can embed sheets and slideshows. And here's more - any change done to the sheet/slideshow gets automatically reflected in your Zoho Writer document! Those are just a few things that can be done with Zoho Writer. You will get to discover more as you work with Zoho Writer.

We have a very active forums at http://forums.zohowriter.com. And your queries, valuable feedback comments are most welcome at feedback@zohowriter.com as well.

Again, thanks for signing up with Zoho!

How to change IP address from the Windows command line

Check out this web page:

http://www.daybarr.com/blog/2007/05/11/how-to-change-ip-address-from-the-windows-command-line
It explains how to use comand prompt to change your ip address, gateway and dns servers plus how to chage it back to dhcp again. It uses netsh.
This is how you set your ip address, subnet mask and gateway:

netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.1.140 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 1
netsh interface ip set dns "Local Area Connection" static 4.2.2.2 primary

Then back to DHCP
netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" dhcp
netsh interface ip set dns "Local Area Connection" dhcp

This is so helpful. You just put this code in to a text file and change the extension from txt to cmd. Then you can open it and it will set your ip address. Then have another file that will change it back to DHCP again.

The AMD Phenom™ Processor will be here by the end of 2007!

It will have four cores and will have a range of speed of 1.8-2.3 Ghz at first.

I can't wait till DDR3 gets cheaper. Right now it costs $400-500 to get 1GB. DDR2 costs $40-50 for the same amount with a speed of 800Mhz. DDR3 has speeds of 1066-1333Mhz. Look at this bench marking site comparing the two.

After reading the above article you will notice that DDR3 has barely any improvement on DDR2. Someone should test them in a 64bit Windows Vista computer and see if there is any improvement then.

There is another nice technology that is coming called bluetooth 3.0 which is supposed to greatly speed up the transfer of data wirelessly to other bluetooth devices. Right now with version 2 the speed is 3Mbps. Well when the new version 3 comes out that speed will be increased to 480Mbps which is like firewire and USB2.0!

I like this article about the 480Mbps speed

The current standard version 2 uses the 2.4Ghz band. Here is a quote from the following site: "In other developments, the SIG said it continues to work with the WiMedia Alliance to incorporate 6GHz-band ultra-wideband technology into the 3.0 version of the specification, tentatively dubbed High Speed Bluetooth. The 480+Mbps spec is due by the end of the year, about six months behind what the SIG called an aggressive schedule announced last year.

My Goal for Ubuntu is compatability with Windows

I am starting to use Ubuntu Linux on my home built computer. I love using this new operating system.
I like it better than Windows XP.
I post some snags that some people might run into when they try Ubuntu. There isn't anything that Ubuntu willl not do. If you are having trouble with anything email me and I will try to help. Look at my posts and you might find out how to fix a problem you are having. My goal is to find a way to do anything windows can do. So far in my adventures it is compatible.

Installing flash 9 in ubuntu

I wanted to look at the stock market in google:
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=goog&hl=en
When I right clicked on the flash program which is the moving chart I noticed that I was using version 7. The newest version is 9.
These instructions are for firefox in Ubuntu Edgy Eft.
First click tools and add-ons. Then click on plugins, then go down and click on flash version 9 for windows. It takes you here: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
Download option 1. Open the archive file you just downloaded called: install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz and click extract and then extract again and it goes it to a folder on the desktop.
Next open a terminal and type:
cd Desktop

next, type:
cd install_flash_player_9_linux

this takes you into the file that was extracted to the desktop. Now type:
sudo ./flashplayer-installer

now it asks you the root password. Then it asks you for the directory where firefox or what ever browzer you use is. I typed the following:
/usr/lib/firefox

then it will install to that dir ectory, press enter and it should say finished installing.
Now go here and right click on flash movie to see what version you are using.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=goog&hl=en
good luck

Force ubuntu to keep old package installed

I use vnc to login as another user on my computer from another computer. I can even login as another user from anywhere that has the internet. My vnc program was uptodate and it doesn't work unless I use the last version of vnc4server. So I open synaptic package manager and find vnc4server. The version I use that works is 4.1.1+xorg1.0.2-0ubuntu1. This version is for Edgy but a new update came called edgy security. When I install this version I can't login to one of my users from another computer while I am already logged on in the physical computer. So I clicked on vnc4server in synaptic package manager and clicked on package tab and force version then I chose the older release. Now the problem is when I turn on my computer the auto updater keeps bugging me so I found a work-around.