by vj
28. July 2009 03:38
If you are like me who like to work at the wee hours (just because sometimes you just get those cranky workarounds and logic just about that time ;) ) you may have noticed that the screen brightness of your laptop is too bright and painful. f.lux is a freeware application which when installed adjusts your monitor brightness and colour warmth according to the current time of the system.
Give it a go at http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/
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by Administrator
30. April 2008 03:24
In the hunt for improving my development methodologies and techniques I recently came across on the concept of using Powerpoint for prototyping the user interface of the application that's yet to be developed. It is quite an interesting concept, apart from getting a look into the idea Long Zheng has provided a template package in Powerpoint which can be used for designing such prototypes.
I am already loving this idea and planning to use from the current development cycle.
by Administrator
19. April 2008 16:51
Of the various techniques proposed on the www for downloading YouTube videos, I find the one mentioned at Download YouTube videos as MP4 Files post very convenient and sure to work. If you are using Safari or Firefox as your browser all you need to do is drag YouTube Video Downloading Link onto your quick bookmark and then visit any video on the YouTube and download it by clicking on the added link.
via Geeks are Sexy
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by Administrator
11. April 2008 04:57
Okies, carrying on with the series we will look into expanding on the Essential tools - part 1:
StExBar (Freeware / Open source)
StExBar is a plug-in for the Windows Explorer, which adds much needed functionality to the explorer / folder view. It provides many useful commands for your everyday use of Windows explorer. And you can add as many custom commands on your own as you like.
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| Have you ever needed to open a console window while you were using the explorer? And to have that console already set to the directory you're showing in explorer right now? Well, StExBar provides that with one simple mouseclick. There's also a hotkey defined for this: simply press Ctrl-M to open the console.
A 'lightweight' console is also available. Simply enter the command you like to execute into the edit box on the right of the StExBar and hit enter. The command will be executed in the system console. Have you ever needed to have the name or full path of one or more files in another application? Ctrl-Cdoesn't work here, that won't copy the file path but the file itself. StExBar comes to the rescue. It provides two commands, one to copy all selected file/foldernames to the clipboard, the other copies the whole paths of all selected items. To make it even more easier to use this, a hotkey is defined Ctrl-Shift-C which copies the selected paths.  Creating new folders is a common task in explorer. But to actually do that, you have to right-click on a folder background, choose "New" from the context menu, wait until the submenu finally appears, then choose "Folder" from that submenu. Not anymore! StExBar provides you the same with one easy click. Or even faster with the assigned hotkey: just press Ctrl-Shift-N and you have a new folder created in the current directory. more info... |
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Occasionally Microsoft does make good moves, and one such thing is acquiring Sysinternals. They had wonderful set of tools by Mark Russinovich, and after he joined MS a suit of all Sysinternals tools have been released. It's a windows developer / debuggers and administrators dream toolset. Head over to Sysinternals Suite page to check out all the available tools and download them to your hearts content.
by Administrator
8. April 2008 02:40
Our day to day life becomes a lot easier when we make use of the proper tools to help us complete the task at hand. I am planing to post in about few tools which forms an essential part of my tool chain, most are free tools but sometimes there do come in gems which makes you to take out your credit card.
Below are the ones for today:
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. The best function I like in CCleaner is that it provides you with the list of currently installed software list, the same one you get from Control Panel -> Add Remove Programs but a lot faster than the 'Add Remove Programs' applet. So, if you are a developer who always likes to check out various tools and find that removing some of them from 'Add Remove Programs' is a pain because it takes a long time to load, then I would strongly recommend this one. Apart from providing the previously mentioned function, it also provides option to clear browser cache and other MRU lists present on the system.
One of the few applications that I am ready to pay for, I have tried out various free and commercial options (commercial ones mainly as part of corporate subscriptions) but this one beats all of them by a mile. From my personal experience this is the best anti-virus there is todate, which does a good job of keeping the bad binaries at bay without taking up too much resource on your system.
Another gem of a software, a very light-weight application that provides screen capturing / on-screen measurement (ruler) / color picking / zoom tool. It also supports global hotkey's which makes your life a lot easier when you want to create an online documentation.
Are you a platform independent developer who work on both unix / linux and windows? Do you miss the powerful command line tools present in linux on windows? worry no more, you can get the following tools already ported to win32:
bc-1.05
bison-1.28
bzip2-1.0.2
diffutils-2.7
fileutils-3.16
findutils-4.1
flex-2.5.4
gawk-3.1.0
grep-2.4.2
gsar110
gzip-1.2.4
indent-2.2.9
jwhois-2.4.1
less-340
m4-1.4
make-3.78.1
patch-2.5
recode-3.6
rman-3.0.7
sed-3.02
shellutils-1.9.4
tar-1.12
textutils-2.1
unrar-3.00
wget-1.8.2
which-2.4
These are native windows binaries. so you do not need *nix simulation environment like cygwin or uwin.
Get it from (with source) : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9328
We will cover more in the future parts, till then bye and have a nice day!
by Administrator
17. July 2007 03:44
BlogEngine.Net 1.1 has been released. It's quite amazing how fast these guys have churned out the new release.
With my recent experiences in porting, chewing, and digesting dotnet projects, I kind of think that coding for Dotnet Framework V2.0 from scratch is lot easier than porting a complex system and maybe that is one of the few reasons for the quicker releases of the product (of course having an active development community and passionate project lead helps a lot).
Anyhoo, these guys are doing a fantastic job and I am planning to move to BlogEngine.NET after evaluating it out. Good going guys!
Well started with SubText (was done in framework 1.1), then moved to Wordpress (good community but had trouble with MySQL connection), then to DasBlog (still in V1.1) now finally to BlogEngine.NET (finally v2 product with source code, yipee). People! Man evolved from monkey! Any doubts there? :)
by Administrator
2. April 2007 19:20
After my recent laptop crash I had moved to my desktop for the development, since my desktop is equipped with more RAM and has Windows 2003 as the OS (instead of the XP in laptop) I comfortable in doing my development work on the desktop and continued staying on it.
Recently I saw that one of my hard disk is having only 200 odd Mb of free space and wanted to know what was chewing up the space. I was using a free tool in my laptop occasionally for accomplishing the same task, but I forgot the name of the software. After digging around a lot I found it, and name is SequoiaView.
I am writing this post just to keep myself reminded of the software if in case I need in the future.
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