Archive for May, 2006



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 […]

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: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"
To highlight […]

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 = mouse button […]

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
===================== ====== […]

Kill a Process from the Windows Command Line

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 […]

Google: Search within a site

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; […]

Google Currency Conversion

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 […]




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