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JustZIPit - The bright side of hard disk failure
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On Sunday, the hard drive on my PC decided to give up the ghost. Fortunately,
I managed to get the important stuff backed up before it went entirely, but it
does mean I've had to buy a new disk, and spend far too long yesterday and
today reinstalling things (fortunately, as I've got the iBook as well, I can
do work in parallel, but it's still a pain). Anyway, I was casting about for a
free (as in beer) Zip utility for Windows (2000 - I've not got XP), and I came
across JustZIPit, a neat
little piece of software that disposes of the overdone UI of WinZip and its
clones, and replaces it with two actions; click on an archive to decompress it
into a folder in the same directory, and select a context menu item to produce
an archive from a file or directory. Nice.
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Sensible Title Bars Under Windows XP
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I made a simple but useful discovery today at work; it is possible to
make the title bars on Windows XP a reasonable size without resorting to a
thrid-party skinning tool or the "classic" look (yes, yes - I know the classic
window furniture looks far less like it belongs around The Square Window, but
the toolkit and colour scheme is far better in the XP theme). Just go to the
"Appearance" tab of Display Properties, and click Advanced. Select a title bar
in the illustration, and you can change the font and size, allowing you to
make the title bar smaller. Selecting "System" (which is only available at
10pt) makes the title bar eighteen pixels, which is more or less the same as
Classic. I've no idea why I didn't spot this earlier, but I'm glad I did.
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