I have been using VNC server on Solaris, and a viewer on Windows for a while and have been able to copy text from the VNC client to Windows easily. I have also been able to copy text from Windows to an Emacs *scratch* buffer, sometimes, but that’s about it. I recently started using VNC [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Desktop'
Copying Text Between VNC Client and Windows
December 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Desktop, Software
Tags: VNC
Turbo Tax: Can’t Create Encrypted PDF
July 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Computing, Desktop, Software, security
I was using Turbo Tax Home and Business 2007 and wanted to send the final PDF to a tax consultant for some review. I wanted to create an encrypted PDF from Turbo Tax; I couldn’t find a way to do this. Then I figured that an alternative would be to “ZIP” the unencrypted PDF, and [...]
How Smartly Do You Use Your Smartphone?
June 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Desktop, Gadgets, Handheld
Do you own a smartphone or do plan to get one? What do you plan to do with it? Why did you consider getting one?
A few years ago, I used to use the Palm based Visor Neo Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), where I used to store my address book, notes, calendar, etc. I used to [...]
Tags: Blackberry·calendar·email·Graffiti·memo·smartphone·SMS·Treo·voice recorder·Web
Backing Up Data With Norton Ghost On A NAS Disk
June 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Computing, Desktop, Software
I have been using the Norton Ghost 9.0 for a couple of years now. When I started using it, I used to connect an external USB harddisk to my PCs and backup frequently. In some cases, I tried backing up data from one PC to a shared drive on another PC (see Strategies For Backing [...]
