Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Text editor tab in browser

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This is such a cool and simple trick. Creates a simple text editor / notepad in a browser tab. This is useful for storing various kinds of t...
Friday, October 19, 2012

DOS prompt output to clip board

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This trick is so simple, yet so powerful if you dabble in the DOS Prompt a lot. You can pipe the output from any command to the clipboard si...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Mailto fix for Gmail

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I love Google. Well, in a nerdy kind-of way. I love search, Chrome, Android, Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Goggles, flight search, Wallet, etc. If ...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Searching in Excel and Word

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Searching and replacing text and special characters in Microsoft Excel and Word can get, uhmm, a tad complicated. Even for people very famil...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Picture date-time stamp editing

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I use Google's Picasa to edit / track my pictures, but I was very disappointed to learn that it does not have a basic tool to edit the d...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Vista Command Prompt

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So my new Dell Studio 15 laptop is a (great) step down from my old trusted Dell Latitude X300 , but it was unfortunately a matter of funds ...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Links in emails

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OK, Joe in sales has just sent you and 16 others in your department yet another 13 MB PowerPoint presentation for everyone to review. And to...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

I like either for grep'ing

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There are times when you want to grep for multiple different lines from a file. For example, the text file below could be an example of a lo...
Saturday, August 2, 2008

Grep'ing for a column value

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A few days ago I needed to get those lines from a file that only contained a certain value in a certain field. To simplify the example, let...
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Friday, May 2, 2008

Multiline AutoCorrect

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In an earlier blog entry I showed how the cool Microsoft Word AutoCorrect feature can be used to both increase your typing speed and your s...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Nifty Regular Expressions (RegExp)

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I personally use TextPad as my default text editor. There are probably some much fancier ones out there, but TextPad has all the features t...
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Saturday, February 2, 2008

Searching XSLT files

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I work a lot with XML and XSLT files, and hence I often need to grep files (i.e. search for text strings in files) for certain term. Windows...

What's the difference?

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If you work with plain text files, you often have 2 almost identical text files and you need to know what the difference between them is. Th...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

Command line tools for dummies: Stringing them together

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In the last blog entry we introduced a few basic UNIX command line tools. Now we'll start stringing them together to make them really us...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Command line tools for dummies

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Let me start by saying that I receive no kickbacks or any other compensation from any of the products that I mention. I would certainly like...