Iiyama 24″ monitor

If you have a low-traffic website, consider joining the Money4Banners advertising network. They will pay you £10 + £5 each month for displaying a small advert on three of your pages, regardless of traffic. American webmasters are welcome, and since £10 == $20, you make more!

The HP Photosmart C4280 is going for £44 on Amazon UK. It is about £60 on Tesco and elsewhere so it is quite a good saving.

HP Photosmart C4280 AIO Printer, 30Ppm USB 4800Dpi

Brainteaser: Which letter comes next?

Which letter should appear next in this sequence?
B F J P ?

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’

How to Access a Page in Google’s Cache

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

Use Google to define words

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
(...)



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