Archive for May, 2006
Hacking the translation plugin for nicer URLs
0 Comments Published 2 years, 5 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 […]
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 […]
How to Control the Mouse Pointer Without a Mouse in Windows XP
0 Comments Published 2 years, 5 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 mouse5 = mouse button […]
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 2 years, 5 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
===================== ====== […]
Kill a Process from the Windows Command Line
4 Comments Published 2 years, 5 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 […]
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 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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