I went to install a new extension in Google Chrome / Chromium and I was getting the error message “Could not create directory for unzipping.”
This doesn’t seem to be a permissions issue, as I have full rights on the PC I’m working on.
I found this thread in which some others report the same error.
The funny [...]
When using Windows, I use VanDyke SecureCRT to connect to my Linux machines, which include servers running Red Had Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and the Debian-derived Ubuntu. Everything was working fine until today.
Though I was playing around with the SSH configuration files to get SFTP transferred files to set a specific file [...]
OK, so you’ve had Windows XP for a while now and have installed a bunch of third party apps, and Windows just keeps getting slower, and slower, and slower, and slooooower…
It might be Microsoft’s fault, since there are a bunch of things that XP should do differently. It might be a third party application [...]
Dumb Little Man found this little tidbit at DWTips that I wanted to pass along. (and offer my own alternative solution as well.)
DW Writes:
Every time you run Adobe Acrobat up to 20 plugins are loaded unnecessarily – most users do not need even a fraction of them!
To disable unneeded plugins and make them optional [...]
In addition to those provided in the drop-down list, Skype has a number of hidden emoticons as well. Some of these are not available with all versions. To be sure that they all work, be sure that you and the person you are chatting with both have the latest version of Skype.
If you [...]
The Pandora music service updated their code last night. If you’re a Pandora’s Jar user, you may have noticed that the Pandora player is no longer appearing on your Pandora’s Jar page.
Not to worry – here’s how you fix it.
Locate your Pandora’s Jar directory. If you followed my instructions when you set it [...]
Getting rid of that old computer? You might want to consider either hanging on to the hard drive or making sure that it’s been completely erased before you do so – your personal data may be at stake.
If you’re like most computer users, you probably have a few files on your computer that you [...]
If you’re looking for information on how to use Pandora’s Jar, check here for my article called How to save music from Pandora using Pandora’s Jar
Lemme guess – Pandora’s Jar was working just fine for you, but then all of a sudden it stopped working?
The reason is that the Pandora Music Service changed [...]
The Pandora Music Service is pretty cool – you tell Pandora which artists and songs you like, and Pandora then plays music that it thinks you will like, based on your stated preferences. It’s a fun way to discover new music, though there are a couple of limitations.
The biggest limitation is that [...]
Ahh, Firefox – so customizeable.
Unfortunately, it still has a way to go in terms of intuitiveness of design.
Case and point: it’s a breeze to add search engines to Firefox with a single mouse click using the Mozilla addons page. Unfortunately, it’s not so easy to delete old or unwanted engines from [...]
Firefox has long been my web browser of choice. Features such as tabbed browsing, multiple extensions, and intelligent popup blocking make it the most usable browser available.
Lately, however, it seems that more and more popups are managing to get through. I did some checking, and it seems that the Macromedia Flash [...]
