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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 [...]

Normally the format of a URL in Google’s cache is:http://google.com/search?q=cache:xxxxx:yyyyyWhere 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:xxxxxFor example:http://google.com/search?q=cache:google.com This is also possible without editing the url, by searching google for "cache:google.com" [...]

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 mouse5 = [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]