In Windows Vista it was possible to select from 3 power plan settings : “Power Saver”, “Balanced”, and “High Performance.” from the system tray. In Windows 7 however it’s only possible to have a maximum of 2 options where the “Balanced” setting is always an visible. To change it to the 3rd one you have to actually click
Keyboard shortcuts for Windows 8
Windows 8 is around the corner with release in the end of 2012. There is a lot of new features and some has disappeared. Getting around in Windows 8 can be challenging without knowing the shortcuts so Microsoft has release a great overview with all the keyboard shortcuts for Windows 8. You can also download the Keyboard shortcuts for
How to find out which process is locking a DLL
Every so often you want to uninstall something and half the times some process has locked a dll file because of a delete or similar operation failed, or just plain explorer.exe that still has the folder open. To figured out which process is causing the problem you can use the TaskList and TaskKill command to solve it.
Notepad++ plugin TextFX Unable to find libTidy.dll in system path
After Installing Notepad++ plugin TextFX and restarting the following error came: Unable to find libTidy.dll in the system path or C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\Config\tidy\libTidy.dll Htmltidy is unable to find libtidy.dll. This is due to the plugin not being included in 5.9.3 and up to at least 5.9.8. This can be fixed by downloading Notepad++ 5.9.0 zip and extract the
How to install Notepad++ plugin
From Wikipedia: “Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for Windows. One advantage of Notepad++ over the built-in Windows text editor, Notepad, is tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files.” Download your plugin e.g. TextFX Place the dll file in the plugin subfolder of Notepad++ Load the plugin by going to Settings -> Import -> Import Plugin and select
Launching Windows Task Manager
There are several way to open Windows Task Manager. The fastest and easiest way is Ctrl + Shift + Esc. This is possible in Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 From Run or a command line type and run “Taskmgr” Rightclick on the taskbar and select “Start Task Manager” By holding down Ctrl+Alt+Del opens the Windows
CSS3 Gradient Generator
Using gradient color can be cool and be completed with css style. Making a gradient color in css can be completed as following: [sourcecode language=”css”] <script type="text/css"> .txt { background-image: linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(132,170,193) 15%, rgb(159,204,232) 58%, rgb(191,245,255) 79%); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(132,170,193) 15%, rgb(159,204,232) 58%, rgb(191,245,255) 79%); background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(132,170,193) 15%, rgb(159,204,232) 58%, rgb(191,245,255) 79%); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(bottom,
Make Chrome Behave As A Mobile Browser By Changing The User Agent
Making your browser behave like a mobile browser can be helpful sometimes, this can easily be done by changing the user agent. This tools can also be helpful if you’re a developer and you want to test a site in different environment. In the past you had to install an extension. Chrome have included a
Eclipse complains about jquery minified JS files
When using minified files in Eclipse it can caused errors when there shouldn’t be any. Eclipse complains when using jquery.min.js files. One solution is to ignore the specific file. Go to : Project->Properties->JavaScript->Include Path->Source-> Excluded Groups ignore specific files by adding a suitable exclusion pattern e.g. **/jquery*.js Solution found at bug report 349020 comment 15 via stackoverflow topic ignore
Open zip file on MAC
Mac should be able to open a zip, however, depending on version, OS or some other strange reason. Mac OS X has a built-in application to do this, Archive Utility, but apparently this does not work with every zip files. The Archive Utility error: “Unable to expand “myfiles.zip” into “Downloads”. (Error 2 – No such file