Archive for 2007/03


Speed up Vista’s start menu search

The Lockergnome weblog details how to speed up your Vista start menu search by selectively enabling how deep your search goes.
For example, the author notes that if you’re only really interested in using the start menu search to launch applications, disabling the file search will tremendously speed things up. Aside from that, since the […]

Act on a set of files at the Windows command prompt

If you’ve got to perform an action on a bunch of files at the command line, you want to master the for statement. The Daily Cup of Tech web site explains how the command:

for /R %z in (*.zip) do unzip “%z”

Iterates through all the zip archives in a folder and extracts them. If […]

Apple TV hacked to enable USB

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
The Apple TV may go down in history as the most rapidly hacked Apple product ever; the news comes in so fast if we wanted to covered it all, we’d have to spin off Engadget Apple TV. That said, since upgrading the ATV’s drive we’ve been tracking these hacks, and the […]