Remove items from your Web History (Google accounts)
Remove items from your Web History If you’d like to remove items from your Web History, just follow these steps: Visit your Web History page at google.com/history . Select any items you don’t want and click the Remove button. There’s also a link to Remove all Web History. You can delete information from Web History using the remove feature, and [...]
Hide Skype’s DialPad in Mac
1. Use any PLIST editor. 2. Open Skype preference file (~/Library/Preferences/com.skype.skype.plist) 3. Change property DialpadOpen from YES to NO 4. Save the file. This annoying dial pad is now always hidden and you can open it when needed.
Mac OSX Lion reverse scroll direction
Apple introduced OS X Lion yesterday but already one major complaint has been lodged against the Mac upgrade: Scrolling. Lion revolutionizes scrolling, literally reversing it. Now when you move your fingers up the trackpad, you scroll up the page instead of down, and vice versa. To be fair, we understand the change: Apple’s trying to [...]
Free speller for Office 2011
You want to have a speller in your native language and Microsoft does provide it? Do not worry, the solution is simple. What you will need is openoffice.org and it’s dictionary. Choose the dictionary that you prefer (our choice el_GR.dic) and the english speller (English Speller.proofingtool) from Office. So with the help of el_GR.dic we [...]
Find all files with 777 permissions
Simply by typing: find / -type f -perm 0777
Most useful commands for Linux
* Continuously check Apache error log file: $ tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log * View first 15 lines from MySQL log: $ head -15 /var/log/mysqld.log * vi keyboard shortcuts => jump to end of line $ => start of line 0 => Delete rest of line D => Repeat the last command given: . (dot) => add [...]
WiMAX™ Operators Gather to Draft Global Roaming Agreements
Taipei, Taiwan — Sixteen WiMAX operators from across the globe gathered in Taipei this week to draft roaming agreements and bring consumers one step closer to true global roaming on 4G networks. The first WiMAX Forum Global Operator Summit served as an interactive working event for all service providers to gain a concrete understanding of [...]
Windows Phone 7 Devices Will Charge Only When Powered On
Mobile phones running under Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 operating system would charge only when powered on, as the charging process has been reportedly set to be controlled by the operating system. Basically, this meant that, in case the handset is plugged in while turned off, it would turn on automatically. Moreover, if one tries [...]
Sony Ericsson Kicks Off Work on Android 2.3 Gingerbread
Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has already started the work on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, most probably getting ready for bringing to the spotlight the first handset based on this OS version. Nothing was announced officially on any upcoming Android-based mobile phone, but the arrival of Android 2.3 Gingerbread in the company’s labs was already [...]
Add a word in front or at the end of each line
Lets say that you have a file with 1000 lines and you want to add the word start in front of each line and the word end in the end of each line. What can you do? Simple: Let’s assume that the file is named magic.txt the command will be: sed ‘s/^/start/g;s/$/end/g’ magic.txt So if [...]