DiscoMoose

When I first installed WordPress on this site, I went to the codex plugin list and went a bit mad over the extreme extensibility on offer, grabbing many plugins, just to try them out. A lot of them I disabled after a short while (not that they weren’t good, they weren’t anything I was wanting to use). Anyway, one of the plugins which is almost completely useless to me, but which I have left activated is the Simple Thoughts Automatic Translation Plugin, which provides the little translation bar with the flags which you can see on the right of this page. I left it activated simply because it is neat.
Continue reading ‘Hacking the translation plugin for nicer URLs’

Normally the format of a URL in Google’s cache is:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:xxxxx:yyyyy
Where xxxxx is a hash of the URL and yyyyy is the address itself.
You can access the cache of specific URL by omitting the hash part and simply using the url:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:xxxxx
For example:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:google.com

This is also possible without editing the url, by searching google for "cache:google.com"

To highlight terms within the cache’d page, add them on to the end of the search query, for example: "cache:google.com news" will highlight the word "News"

If you want to control your mouse pointer with the keyboard, Windows XP provides a way:

Press Alt+Left Shift+Num Lock all at once and a prompt will appear telling you that you have activated mousekeys, select ok then you can control the mouse with the numpad.

The controls are:
1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 = move the mouse
5 = mouse button click
+ = double click
insert = hold down mouse button
delete = release mouse button (after holding it down with insert)
/, * or – = select which mouse button the above controls will click (left, both or right respectively)
numlock = disable mousekeys

You can use google to find definitions of words rather than looking them up in an online dictionary.
To do this, search for "define:" followed by the word (without quotes) you want to find the meaning of.
For example: "define:potato".

To view all the currently running processes in windows from the command line, you can use the command ‘tasklist’. The output will look something like this:
F:\>tasklist

Image Name               PID Session Name     Session#    Mem Usage
===================== ====== ================ ======== ============
System Idle Process        0 Console                 0         16 K
System                     4 Console                 0         52 K
smss.exe                 592 Console                 0        108 K
csrss.exe                648 Console                 0      5,868 K
winlogon.exe             680 Console                 0      2,632 K
services.exe             724 Console                 0      2,376 K
(...)

To terminate a process from the command line of windows, use the taskkill command:
When you know the name of the image to stop:
taskkill /IM notepad.exe
Or when you know the process ID, eg 784:
taskkill /PID 784
For more usage variants, type taskkill /?

NB: some of this information about what processes are running can be obtained by the tasklist command.

Google lets you narrow your search down to within a specific website, or to within a specific TLD (for example .gov).

You can do this by using the site: command in your search, for example:

• java site:sun.com – searches for java on sites with the domain name sun.com (this includes subdomains, like java.sun.com)
• java site:java.sun.com – more specific; searches for java on sites with the domain name java.sun.com.
• copyright site:gov – searches all US government sites (domain names ending in .gov) for the term copyright.

Google has a currency conversion feature built in to its search, all you have to do is search for 100 GBP in USD, for example, to convert £100 (UK Pounds Sterling) to US Dollars. If you don’t know the acronym for the currency you’re converting to then don’t worry as you can also do conversions with a search like 100 USD in Czech money, if you were planning a trip to the Czech Republic.