Change the window title in Putty

Putty is an SSH/telnet/etc client which allows you to connect to remote servers such as a Linux or BSD webserver. When you change directories etc in a terminal shell the window title in Putty is likely to change, depending on the shell’s settings. This post looks at how to change the Putty window title to be what you want and how to prevent it changing as you change directories.

Change the download location and prompt in Google Chrome

By default Google Chrome will automatically save downloads to My DocumentsDownloads but it is possible to either specify an alternate automatic location or ask to be prompted each time. I covered this a while back for Firefox ("Change where Firefox saves files to by default") and in this post look at how to do this in Google’s Chrome browser.

View the raw email message in Gmail

In Gmail you can click the "show details" option to view some of the basic message headers such as who the email was to and from etc, but you can’t see the full raw message headers and message. There is a way to do it that isn’t particularly obvious and this post looks at how to do this.