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Nowadays, automation on computer operating system is still an inconvenient or expensive task. Fortunately, most software are designed such that redundant manipulations are reduced or taken care off by the interface, because most software developers have user-friendly designs in their mind. However in some cases, we do find ourselves the need to repeat certain task over and over again.

 

If the task could be achieved by using keystrokes alone, then we are lucky. For example, "saving the Google search results of the keyword 'sikuli' every minute" is something that can be automated easily using any automation software such as AutoHotKey. All you need to do is to send the keystrokes: "Win+R, firefox, Enter, http://www.google.com, Wait 2 secs, Enter, sikuli, Enter, Ctrl+S, Enter". The macro could be coded easily by anyone after checking the relevant section of the software documentation, usually not more than one page.

 

 

 

If you are a professional you probably have a lot of different IMs to get in touch with your workers, providers, buyers etc… it is quite a pain to open all of them when you start the system and although you can set them all to open at startup they will slow down your computer and you will get a lot of icons in the system tray. It is also quite a mess to manage them all at the same time, you never know which person is talking to you on which one etc…

 

This is why there are programs like Pidgin which can use all of your IMs at the same time in a single program. Pidgin is open source for free and you won’t pay at all or see any ads to use it.

 

During the days of win98/ME, an essential tool for windows trouble-shooting is the bootdisk. That is because back then, windows was notoriously easy to break. System files occasionally got corrupted, or the boot sector got messed up by a virus. When the system refused to boot, we called bootdisk in to help out.

 

Windows system of today is more stable, such scenarios rarely happen. But when they do happen, and when the standard recovery process fails, the downtime could be costly. Most often, the trouble prevents the user from retrieving important files that are stored inside the hard disk. The tool that has replaced bootdisk and comes to the rescue is a Linux LiveCD.

 

Windows users' impression of Linux had always been: a command-line driven OS, secure but not user-friendly, it can hardly accomplish anything produtive except being a good server. That impression has gradually changed since the day we were introduced to Ubuntu Linux, the most user-friendly Linux distribution out there.Today, most Windows tasks can be performed on Linux too. Even to a user who has never touched Linux in his/her life and one day finds the need to use Linux for the first time to retrieve a file from a computer on which windows is unable to boot, Linux isn't difficult to use. A little bit of patience, some time for trial and error is all that is needed to figure out how to get something done.