Monday, 16 April 2001

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Is there a quick way to decompress lots of zip files at once without clicking on each one individually?

Yes - if you're an 'old skooler' (sic) you can use the DOS executable pkunzip.exe, available from www.pkware.com. If you run the command 'pkunzip *.zip' from the DOS prompt in the same directory as your zip files they will all be extracted sequentially without any further intervention from you. On the contrary, if you can't bear to leave the more user-friendly Windows interface (hmmf, amateurs! :p)...

Friday, 6 April 2001

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(Not so) Hotline

Back in September 1997 before Napster was even a twinkle in its mother's eye and Gnutella was nothing more than a chocolate spread an application known as Hotline emerged opening the flood gates to a world of file sharing opportunities. Sadly while Hotline's radical approach to internet communication created quite a stir in its infancy, the program is now little more than a fancy FTP client with a...