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SSH Clients for your PDA

How many times have I been around a WiFi spot and wanted to remotly administer a computer but only had my PDA with me?

Well to many times, so I searched around for some free pocket SSH Clients and I also included a VNC Viewer for PDA’s too.

PocketPutty (http://pocketputty.duxy.net)

This SSH Client doesn’t require installation on your pocket pc and can be run straight away. It supports SSH1/SSH2 and Telnet. It also has a compression option that helps conserve bandwidth.

OpenSSH CE (http://www.eskimo.com/~webguy/service/openssh.html)

OpenSSH CD Doesn’t not require instalation aswell, but does require the user to configure it. (Putty doesn’t) OpenSSH CE does support secure file transfer whereas Putty doesn’t.

Putty = Fast Setup
OpenSSH CE = More Things

VNC Viewer for Pocket PC (http://www.cs.utah.edu/~midgley/wince/vnc.html)

Works on:

* PocketPC 2000 [ARM] [MIPS] [SH3]
* PocketPC 2002 [ARM]
* PocketPC 2003 [ARM]

Steven

Force shutdown/restart Windows, the quick,easy and painless way.

This method is very handy if you have apps that just won’t die, and you want to shutdown.
You can goto: Start->Run and type this in, or you can save one of the lines as a batch file. (In notepad save it as “shutdown.bat” (With the quotes)).
WARNING: This will shutdown your computer and will kill all the processes, unlike the normal way, where it waits for programs like MS Word (Where it askes you to save), this will just continue to shutdown.

Shutdown:
shutdown -s -t 1 -f

Restart:

shutdown -r -t 1 -f

Explanation:

-r/-s Is Restart/Shutdown

-t is Time (In seconds)

-f (Forces the shutdown)

Worth Noting: If you just want to kill an app, you might want to try pskill Put it in C:\Windows
And then type pskill taskname in Start->Run. Eg. If Firefox is frozen: pskill firefox.exe

Steven

[Short-Cut]Select a tab in Firefox via a key command.

Tested in:

Firefox 1.5

If you have got it to work in other versions please comment and I will add it in here.

The Tip:

Ctrl-# Where # is the number (from the left) of the tab.

eg.

Ctrl-1 selects first tab, Ctrl-2 selects second tab and so on.

Steven

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