Archive for the ‘How To’ Category

File Sharing Between Linux and Windows

I wanted to backup from my work (Windows) box to my personal (Linux) box. I found these useful videos on setting up Samba file sharing. This first guy was right I didn’t know about the extra configuration changes.

http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/SAMBA_Filesharing
Funny story. I did all this and didn’t see the Linux box on the network. Hmm that’s [...]

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.

Technorati Tags: tips

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?

Technorati Tags: google, im

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 [...]

Getting on Git

I’m trying out Git. Its a distributed version control system originally written by Linus Torvalds. I also looked at SVK and Mercurial but settled with Git since it’s commands made more sense to me.
I was happy with Subversion since 2004. Working alone with my notebook and client servers it has been very useful. Now the [...]

Improved Meta Description With WordPress

Google Webmaster tools was complaining that my content had duplicate meta descriptions. I found that it was always displaying the blog description on all the pages.
I found quite a few meta tag plugins but I settled for the Improved Meta Description Snippets plugin with a small modification.
I added this else block at line 119 In [...]

Get Into Google Country Search With Google Webmaster Tools

Ever since we got google.lk I was wondering how to get into it. Problem is google.lk was only indexing .lk domains. Rightfully so but all my sites are either .com or .info. Crap now what? Well I had a Google Webmaster tools account for my blog’s sitemap. I read somewhere that now you can get [...]