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Microsoft suggested that the best editor for a Java file is Microsoft Visual Studio :)

Kishore — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:20:20 +0000

Microsoft just suggested that the best editor for a Java file is Microsoft Visual Studio ..

It even implied that it’s actually a J# file.. take that for skewed view of the world.

http://shell.windows.com/fileassoc/0409/xml/redir.asp?EXT=java

Refresh ID3 tags of entire music library in iTunes (Windows)

Kishore — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:41:01 +0000

If you are like me and manage your ID3 tags outside iTunes for your music, this is how you force iTunes to refresh all ID3 info without having to recreate the entire library.

Select all songs (Ctrl+A)
Right click the selection, click on ‘Get info’
Without entering any data, just click on ‘Ok’ this will force iTunes to refresh ID3 info.
NOTE: Care full not to enter anything in the ‘Get info’ dialog when it is open. Because anything you enter will be applied to all songs.

Voila! that should do it.

MacDock on Windows EASY and LIGHT

Kishore — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:31:00 +0000

Do you love Macintosh Usability and some cool Eye Candy for free.

Just click below and get a glimpse of what you can do for free on trusty old windows XP.

www.rocketdock.com

Don’t forget to add StackDocklet from Addons

And Get some cool skins and Icons from there

Click on Get Addons

Do you like Vista’s Instant Search/Launch within Start Menu?

Kishore — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:06:00 +0000

I do and I believe that is the biggest improvement in usability Vista has achieved (yeah, more useful than all the Flip 3D and eye candy).

Now you can get all that on XP itself. (Acutally this has been there all along)

Try Launchy at http://www.launchy.net/

It’s cool and has a light footprint of 15MB and stays there.

AND DO NOT FORGET TO READ THE README FILE, It tells you a lot.

Easy way to do screen captures/shots

Kishore — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:29:00 +0000

If you already use a good tool to do screen captures, you can pretty much ignore this and checkout this good alternative

Gadwin Printscreen

As with all the emphasis on knowledge sharing and stuff. I have been trying to put all the important items into shared documents/wiki on sharepoint for Horizon.

And one of first frustating points about this is being forced to type lot’s of text. I hate typing lots of text/more than being forced to go through it. I naturally prefer screen shots (with the belief a picture’s worth a thousand words). Which in turn made me realize how basic the windows PrintScreen button is.

After a bit of research I came across this nice tool

Gadwin Printscreen 4.3 which lets you take screen shots of

Whole Screen
Active WIndow
A Custom Square…
Save them to a pre-determined location…
Open them up for preview

All at a touch of a button with little initial configuration. Give it a go.. it’s very neat…

I’ve downloaded it and placed in H:\eBusiness Team\Software\Screen Capture\PrintScreen43_Setup.exe

check it out..

Windows Readyboost on XP with EBoostr – Initial Review – Part 2

Kishore — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:28:00 +0000

Well well… Between a long dinner with friends and late night cricket match.. I was able to squeez in an hour to give eBoostr a whirl ..

I used a San Disk 4 GB U3 Cruiser (‘Windows Readyboost Ready’ USB dongle from OfficeWorks). I allocated all the 4GB for caching file.

1. It significaly speeds up switching between applications when you have multiple applications running. I had Eclipse, Visual Studio, Firefox, Photoshop open at the same time and switching was pretty fast, under 1 sec if I had to be specific. But this is no real test as I had them open for only half an hour.

2. It had this nice cache viewer, which revealed all the files being cached and you can exclude certain files like MP3 and stuff from being cached. That was nice and I could see that half my cache is filled with current files being indexed by ‘Windows Search’ plugin.. crap.

I will probably put it through the grind this weekend and come up with more info on this.

Windows ReadyBoost on XP

Kishore — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:27:00 +0000

One of the best things about vista I liked is it’s ability to speed up the system using a USB memory. (Windows ReadyBoost). It uses it as the RAM(or a PageFile) to significantly speed up the system.

Now we have the ability to do the same thing in XP. Check eBoostr

http://www.eboostr.com/.

I’m gonna give it a try this evening .. See how it goes…