Here is a useful tip:
When an application pops up a dialog box which it’s content you want to save or Google for, you can type CTRL+C to copy it’s *text* content to the clipboard.
It should work with applications that use Windows standard GUI libraries.
To see what I mean try this:
Open notepad. Type something.
Try exiting the notepad. You’ll get a dialog box asking if whether you want to save the changes. CTRL+C it.
The text will be saved to the clipboard:
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Notepad
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The text in the Untitled file has changed.
Do you want to save the changes?
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Yes No Cancel
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If you are a heavy keyboard user you are probably using a lot of Control+F to quickly find whatever link you are looking for and then click it to follow it.
A quicker way is to use the ‘/’ search command to instead.
This is how:
Let’s say that your are looking for a link in the page you currently in.
The Control+F method requires the following steps:
1. Type Control+F.
2. Type the text you are searching.
3. Identify whether it is text or a link (Oh, more work on your eye 
)
4. Hit Escape.
5. Hit Enter to navigate to this page.
Instead, you can use ‘/’ to search:
This will save the hitting Escape stage, and it also dot-mark links instead just highlighting them. After the text/link is found simply hit Enter.
And, if you want links-only search you can use ‘ instead /.
Here are two tips about Gmail addresses not many people know.
- You can add as many dots you want to your email address.
For example: lets say that your current email address is
firstlast@gmail.com. You can make it much more readable if you represent it as:
first.last@gmail.com.Gmail simply ignore all the dots: The user names are saved without them,
and they are dropped from the address of mails received. - You can append a ‘+’ characters and some text to the end of your user
name.
So, continuing our previous example, if your email address is
first.last@gmail.com, you can also represent it as: first.last+PCapBar.Tips@gmail.com. Gmail simply drops of everything after the first ‘+’ character before processing the user name (so you can even use more than one ‘+’
character).This is useful if you give your email address to mailing lists or commercial web sites. You can create a custom email address and use it to quickly define a filter or search for messages.
While performing multiple QA and testing procedures it is often required of us to change the properties of our Network Devices, i.e from a certain fixed IP to DHCP and vice versa.
NetSetMan makes your life easier by providing the ability to do just that (and much much more) directly from the tray by applying pre-configured “profiles”.
Latest version also allows to configure Hosts File Entries, Network Mapping, Default Printer, and more… Paid version allows unlimited number of profiles, commercial use (at the office) and setting domain and proxy settings.
Linux Commando has so much goodies in it that it should become a book! Anyway, I was looking for and I found a simple way to create a file of a certain size and how to diff 2 directories on a linux system, here’s how:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=file.name bs=1M count=10
Creates “file.name” with 10MB size. Play with the bs/count to increase size
$ diff -q ~peter ~george |sort
The above differentiates between george’s and peter’s home directories, -q suppresses individual in-file diff and piping to sort organizes it nicely
“Connect to every server” is the tagline of Cyberduck , a free connection client for FTP (File Transfer Protocol), SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer), WebDAV(Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning), Amazon S3, Google Storage, Windows Azure, Rackspace Cloud, and others. It’s actually an advanced client with a really simple & intuitive interface that, up until recently, was available for the Mac, now comes to Windows and it rocks!
Using your web client’s debug tools is good for some scenarios. But if you’re looking for more debugging/performance/debugging try Fiddler Web Debugger.
This free tool lets you inspect traffic, introduce tempering to requests, measure responses and analyze performance and supports multiple addons (check the webpage for examples of usage).
And another example, an andvanced 3rd party security addon, Watcher:
Apperantly you can create Notepad++ themes from textmate files with this Textmate theme to Notepad++ styler! We sure love us some stylish editor themes, get some nice ones from here, for instance:
To use the nice monaco font (default font on macs) you can download it from here
Pop Icons In A Different Light, posted by: Sam Wow at www.icanhasinternets.com is nice material for shirts. Check it:
Also check out Honest logos at designerscouch.org, for shirts that are just true:
