Archive for March, 2008

Unsolved Music

I’ve been listening to these guys for a long time. Then again I had to since I was managing them in the beginning. I don’t think I did a good job, but they turned out alright.
Here are some new tracks they are working on. Maybe its not for everyone but it beats the same-ol pop [...]

AFP: Oil prices hover near 110 dollars

AFP: Oil prices hover near 110 dollars
Crap!

Drag and Drop from Eclipse Navigator

My primary editor is Eclipse, EasyEclipse for PHP flavor to be exact. I usually open another few Windows Explorer windows to move files around.
Today out of shear laziness I dragged a file from Eclipse Navigator to my open WinSCP tab in the task bar and into the remote site. It worked! That’s my tip.

Edit Last Chat Line in Skype

I should lookup shortcuts in help. I use Skype most of the day. I just found out if you hit up arrow in chat you can edit your last chat line and enter to replace it.

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FireShot

Just found FireShot a cool Firefox extension. You can take screen shots of web pages, annotate it and do much more. Should be very useful for sending feedback to a web designer etc.
From the developers:
FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages. Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing [...]

YouSendIt - Send large files

Lets face it emailing large files is a pain. I was reminded of that again today. Dropsend seemed to have a new Windows client but I needed to sign up and stuff. Which is a hassle when you are in a hurry. So I turned to YouSendIt and 4 minutes later my 5mb file was [...]

Configure Pidgin for Google Talk

Still on Pidgin in case you didn’t know already you can use it to chat with your Gmail buddies as if you are logged onto the Gmail website or using Google Talk.
How do I configure Pidgin for Google Talk?

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Pidgin 2.4.0

Pidgin is my main IM tool of choice. It was the best thing on Linux and now I use it on the office Windows box as well. It supports all these networks below. Its been updated to 2.4.0 a few days ago, so if you have it update or try it out.

AIM
Bonjour
Gadu-Gadu
Google Talk
Groupwise
ICQ
IRC
MSN
MySpaceIM
QQ
SILC
SIMPLE
Sametime
XMPP
Yahoo!
Zephyr

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Blog Badges

Here are a few links for the badges I use on the side pane. If you have some favorites please share them in the comments.

Facebook badges
Flickr badge wizard
Linked in badges
del.icio.us network badge

Google Talk Badge

Technorati Tags: blogging

Splitting and Sorting a CSV File in Command Line

I’ve been moving some data using some CSV (Comma separated) files. There is no direct command in Windows to split or sort files. Unless you do it in Excel or Open Office. So I installed Cygwin. Here are a few examples in Cygwin or most Unix based shells how to split and sort files.
Example 1
There [...]