Archive for the 'Useful Tools' Category
In this always on, 24/7 world, anyone working on the Web knows that time is an extremely elusive element – it seems our brains go at a hundred miles an hour. Boy I wish there was another one of me…
In an attempt to make my life easier, I keep – no further than a click [...]
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Cedrick Collomb has a handy utility called Unlocker which will tell you which processes are preventing you from deleting a file or folder.
If a delete fails, you get the generic access denied error message from Windows; however, if you have Unlocker installed, then it will popup and display the processes which have a lock on [...]
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Managing Disk Space
WinDirStat: Windows Directory Statistics is a Windows utility which allows you to view disk space usage, broken down by:
Folder/Directory – percentage of parent folder allows you to identify the folders taking up the most space.
File type summary – useful for seeing how much space your pictures take up
Individual files
The graphical view, called TreeMap, allows you to [...]
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Microsoft Office 2007 Commands
The new ribbon user interface in Office 2007 takes a little getting used to. Sometimes you just want to do something immediately, but can’t find the command in the ribbon. “So much for the ribbon making my life easier” you mutter.
Microsoft have a number of interactive guides which let you select the command from the old [...]
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Somehow, for whatever reason, Windows decided to display files using the last modified date & time as the sorting order for the common open and save as dialogs.
Why?
Good question.
I have been using Windows since the bad old days of Windows 2.0 (circa 1987) and for the life of me have never had this happen before [...]
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Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products and User Experience at Google, was keynote speaker at the recent Searchnomics 2007 conference in Santa Clara.
She walked us through recent developments at Google, and pointed to what she considers the cooler stuff Google is working on – or - the future of search; specifically automated translation and voice recognition. All things [...]
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Found this Web 2.0 site which creates animated gifs.
(Excuse the borders around the images which is an issue with the WordPress theme)
You specify:
Style
Background color (any) or transparent
Foreground colour (any)
It calls itself the “Ajax loading gif generator“; however, it is ironic that it doesn’t behave like an Ajax based Web 2.0 (is this redundant) Web site, [...]
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Microsoft Office 2007 introduces a whole lot of new features – revamped UI, new file formats etc. However, one thing is missing, which is support for the Outlook protocol (outlook://).
Developers wanting to open emails from other applications could use the Outlook protocol to get Microsoft Outlook to display them. For example, outlook:00000000AEB50BC0928BD511A2700000E8D73A91C4A56101.
This is all well for [...]
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Microsoft has released a developer toolbar for Microsoft Internet Explorer which may be useful to SEO folk for ad-hoc analysis of individual pages.
For example, it allows the details of the commonly used description and keywords meta tags without having to troll through the raw html source code.
Tooltips are used to allow the all of the [...]
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Frustrated with taking pictures of the screen using the standard PrntScrn and Alt-PrntScrn keys?
Ever tried to take a picture of the Alt-Tab open applications box? Check this out:
What about those applications which don’t have straight line borders?
What about a picture of an application, and just the application, with the menus displayed? You can’t use Alt-PrntScrn [...]
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