Hacking the translation plugin for nicer URLs
0 Comments Published by Steven 3 years, 10 months ago in Blogs, Hacks and WordpressWhen 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. ![]()
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How to Access a Page in Google’s Cache
0 Comments Published by Steven 3 years, 10 months ago in GoogleNormally 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"
How to Control the Mouse Pointer Without a Mouse in Windows XP
0 Comments Published by Steven 3 years, 10 months ago in Tips and WindowsIf 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".
List all processes with the Windows Command Line
2 Comments Published by Steven 3 years, 10 months ago in Tips and WindowsTo 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 (...)
Kill a Process from the Windows Command Line
4 Comments Published by Steven 3 years, 10 months ago in Tips and WindowsTo 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: Search within a site
0 Comments Published by Steven 3 years, 10 months ago in Google and TipsGoogle 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.
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