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Productivity Tip#1 for Geeks – Launch software using keyboard on Windows

by Ramesh Natarajan on June 23, 2008

 
 
 I’ll be posting series of “Productivity Tips for Geeks” on a on-going basis targeted toward geeks who spend lot of time in front of the computer.

I hate to use the mouse and use keyboard intensively for all my work. If I perform a single action more than few times using mouse, I’ll try to find a corresponding keyboard shortcuts and use it. Using keyboard instead of mouse can be a immediate productivity booster for most of the people. In this post, let us review how to launch the frequently used software on your Windows operating system using keyboard.

One of my frequently used program is notepad++ and I don’t want to click on the “Start -> All Programs -> Notepad++ -> Notepad++”, every time I want to launch Notepad++. Following 5 steps explain how to setup the shortcuts and launch any software using keyboard quickly.
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Launch software installers on Linux from Windows using Cygwin

by Ramesh Natarajan on June 18, 2008

Cygwin

 
 

If you are using SSH client to connect to Linux server from your Windows laptop, sometimes it may be necessary to launch UI application on the remote Linux server, but to display the UI on the windows laptop. Following are two typical reasons to perform this activity:

  1. Install software on Linux from Windows: To launch a UI based installer to install software on remote Linux server from windows laptop. For e.g. A DBA might want to install the Oracle on the Linux server where only the SSH connection to the remote server is available and not the console.
  2. Launch Linux X client software on Windows: To launch X Client software (for e.g. xclock) located on your remote Linux server to the Windows laptop.

Cygwin can be used to perform the above activities. Following 15 steps explains how to install Cygwin and launch software installers on Linux from Windows. Go to Cygwin and download the setup.exe. Launch the setup.exe on the Windows and follow the steps mentioned below.
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