Connect to an Exchange server without using Outlook

If you don’t want to use Microsoft Outlook and your Exchange server does not support IMAP, there are a couple of options:

• DavMAil Exchange Gateway
  DavMail is an exchange gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client (e.g. Thunderbird with Lightning or Apple iCal) with an Exchange server through Outlook Web Access.

  It works on Windows, Linux and MacOS X.

Hotmail Free POP3 Access

POP3 is now available to Hotmail users.

Settings:

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
Username: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

Add line numbers using lineno.sty in RevTex 4

1. Download the lineno Latex package.
2. Unpack it (unzip lineno.zip) and copy all lineno/*.sty files into the directory that contains your Latex document.
3. In the Latex preamble include the line
   \RequirePackage{lineno}
   before the \documentclass{...} command.

   Note: this is necessary due to incompatibilities between the lineno package and RevTex. If you are not using RevTex to prepare your document you can also use the standard way: \usepackage{lineno}

4. Line numbers can be activated by adding the line
   \linenumbers
   after \begin{document}

Convert eps files to jpg in Linux

To convert from eps to jpg using ghostscript:

gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -dJPEGQ=100 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -r300 -sOutputFile=myfile.jpg myfile.eps

This produces huge files. You can trim and resize them in image magick:

mogrify -trim -resize 800x600 myfile.jpg

Remove Ads in MSN Live Messenger

To completely remove the ads in MSN Live Messenger, download ResHacker and use it to open msgsres.dll (found in the Live Messenger install directory) after you create a backup.

Resource Hacker^TM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files.