Monitor Multiple Logs in a Single Shell with MultiTail for Linux

Whether you are responsible for a server or just a programmer doing development, you’ll often have more than one logfile that you want to track at the same time. There’s a nifty little utility for Linux called MultiTail that allows you to monitor multiple logs in a single window, instead of requiring multiple separate shell windows open.InstallationFirst you’ll need to download and extract the source code using the following command....

December 19, 2007 · 2 min · 311 words · Jennifer Compton

Vista Style Analog Desktop Clock for Windows XP

One of the features that regular users seem to love in Windows Vista is the sidebar’s analog clock. Every time I glance at somebody’s desktop in a coffee shop they are using one. Windows XP users are not left out in the cold with the ClocX desktop clock that works similarly. On the Appearance tab you could change the theme to any one of the preloaded themes. From the clock’s right-click menu you might also jump into the Alarms feature, which is surprisingly full-featured....

December 19, 2007 · 1 min · 84 words · Kristen Pacheco

Joining the Social Network Craze

Well, I figured I would joinThe Geek in the social online grid-sphere(is that a word?) Anyway, I think it will be a lot of fun meeting our readers and hooking up online. The main focus of my time right now is the HTG site. Go ahead and add me to your profiles! We hope to get the largest web link of computer geeks on the Web! StumbleUpon:http://mysticgeekhtg.stumbleupon.com/ Lifehacker:http://lifehacker.com/commenter/mysticgeek.htg MySpace:http://www.myspace.com/mysticgeeksrealm Twitter:http://twitter.com/mysticgeek

December 18, 2007 · 1 min · 70 words · Tami Thomas

Make a Shortcut to Start Task Manager in Minimized Mode

Right-press the desktop and choose New \ Shortcut. In the location box, just punch in taskmgr and hit next. Now change the drop-down menu under Run to say “Minimized” and then exit the dialog. Hopefully this will help somebody else as well.

December 18, 2007 · 1 min · 42 words · Tara Palmer

Befriend The Geek on StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious, Twitter, etc

http://howtogeek.stumbleupon.com/ Digg I don’t use Digg a real lot, unless somebody bugs me. I also comment on Lifehacker more often than on many other sites. I’ve got very odd taste in music, mostly fairly mellow music playing while I work. http://www.technorati.com/blogs/howtogeek.com Google Reader Shared Items This is a very cool feature in Google Reader… I promise to start sharing more items that I find interesting as long as you feel like subscribing....

December 17, 2007 · 1 min · 72 words · Monica Gray

Sweet Black Theme for Firefox

Download Aquatint Black Gloss Theme from Mozilla Add-ons

December 14, 2007 · 1 min · 8 words · Michael Baker

Lock The Screen While in Full-Screen Mode in Windows Media Player

Thanks to Reader Ebrahim for writing in with this tip.

December 13, 2007 · 1 min · 10 words · Michael Banks

Future Date a Post in Windows Live Writer

In the blogging world, it’s important to post articles at roughly the same time each day so you’ve got the option to be consistent for your readers. You already know how to submit a post for a future date in WordPress, but did you know you’ve got the option to specify both a date and time when using Windows Live Writer? This is a feature that seems to be overlooked by everybody, since it’s not done in a particularly obvious way in the interface....

December 12, 2007 · 1 min · 153 words · Kim Ray

Batch Print PDF Attachments in Outlook

Step 1 Create a subfolder named “Batch Prints” under “Mailbox - YourName” in Outlook. The 3rdfield “Batch Prints” is the subfolder you just created in the first step. Be sure to create this folder. Step 6 Now the setup is complete. Email will be deleted and moved into trash bin once it has printed. Hope this is useful!

December 11, 2007 · 1 min · 58 words · Tamara Tran

Conserve Space in Firefox by Combining Toolbars

I chose to move them to the Navigation toolbar.

December 10, 2007 · 1 min · 9 words · Ashley Moran

Monday's Lazy Links Roundup From the How-To Geek Blogs

Very glad to have them on our team!

December 10, 2007 · 1 min · 8 words · Claudia Smith

Generate a List of Installed Drivers from the Command Line

There’s a command line utility that comes bundled with Windows Vista or XP that gives you similar output.

December 7, 2007 · 1 min · 18 words · Linda Fisher

Kill Linux Processes Easier with pkill

00:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/swiftfox/swiftfoxgeek 7209 7206 0 Dec04 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /opt/swiftfox/run-mozilla.sh /opt/swiftfox/swiftfox-bingeek 7213 7209 0 Dec04 ? $ pkill swiftfox It’s as simple as that. Passing the -l switch tells pgrep to show the process name as well.

December 7, 2007 · 1 min · 38 words · Tracy Watkins