I just wanted to mention this free piece of software called Par-N-Rar for Windows XP that I tried out today. I was looking to uncompress a large number of RAR archives, located in different folders and to extract the files into their original folder, and finally delete the RAR files. This is what this application does, among other things.

You can also have it idling in the background and uncompress any archives you might add to the location you are monitoring, including all its subfolders, and set an update interval for how often you want it to search for updates in the folder structure. Nifty say I.

From a web developers point of view, I’m sad to say that Safari is still a semi-shady browser, because it still doesn’t display web pages like you’d expect it to. It compares very well to the improvements IE6-IE7. Better, but still not quite there.

Anyway, let’s get to it. To add the keyboard shortcut Command (Apple) + K, go into System Preferences and choose Keyboard & Mouse like so:

Hit the plus sign at bottom left to add a new Shortcut. Choose Safari.app as Application, and type in “Google Search…” as Menu Title. Note the dots, very important. This is how Safari has this shortcut programmed, so you have to use them as well. Highlight Keyboard Shortcut and hit Command+K on your keyboard.

Click Add button, and voila! You have a brand new Keyboard Shortcut for your Safari 3.0 to play with.

Isn’t it a treat? This can be done in Opera quite easily as well, but that’s a different post. My next project will be to get/hack the Bookmarks to work like I want them to. Like, why the hell does the Bookmarks manager open in the active tab, kidnapping you from the very very interesting web page your currently on, reading this article about Somaliland on Wikipedia, and how it never seems to get recognized as an independent state god damn it…

Do I really have to say anything about this… this… mmmmm. God, I’m such a geek…

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