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Readability – Super cool bookmarklet

25 Jun

I have to say I tried the Readability bookmarklet again after reading that Apple used its code in Safari’s Reader feature. Now it is my favorite way of reading articles.

Readability™ is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading. Follow the steps below to install Readability™ in your Web browser. [Readability]

I love the way the bookmarklet removes the unnecessary elements of the page and presents the article in a nice big font. I cant go back to reading articles with out this anymore. Give it a try.

 
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Posted in Software, Web

 

Eclipse Tip: Instance count when debugging

25 Jun

The variable view in Eclipse Helios has a new column called Instance Count. You can view it by selecting the column in Select Columns… option as shown below. A simple solution to understand memory consumption.

 
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Posted in Eclipse, Java, Software

 

Play Pac-Man on Google

21 May

PacMan Doodle

Google usually have different doodles based on the day like 4th of July etc… Today is Pac-Man’s 30th Anniversay so it is no surprise that the doodle is a pac-man doodle. But the kicker is that it is playable. Just click the “Insert Coin” button. ;-) Tried it on my PC as well as iPhone. Cool.

 
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Posted in Software, Web

 

TeamViewer for iPhone

12 May

TeamViewer

 

I have been using LogMeIn previously to remotely connect to my Tablet PC or Desktop at home for sometime. Like I mentioned earlier the free version was sufficient for my needs. They have an iPhone app but it costs $30. I don’t remotely connect often to shell out 30 bucks.

Recently I found TeamViewer via Download Squad. TeamViewer is free for personal use and has a free iPhone app too. It works great. Now if I need to look at some documents on my home computer I can just fire up the app in my iPhone and find it. Nice. Should be interesting to see how this works on an iPad.

 
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Posted in Smartphone, Software, Win7, iPhone

 

Browser Chooser

11 May

BrowserChooser

I use multiple browsers. There are a good number of them out there. I use Chrome as my primary browser but also use IE and Firefox. Some sites work only with IE. I know that sucks but the Outlook Web Access my company provides is an aging version and only IE renders an usable version.

The trouble is which browser do I set as default. Links from external applications open up in the default browser. Here is where Browser Chooser comes in handy. It registers itself as the default browser. When I click on a link in any application it shows a dialog like above and lets me choose the browser I want to open. Simple but very useful. Check it out.

 
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Posted in Chrome, Mozilla, Software, Win7

 

Eclipse Plugin: StartExplorer

11 May

StartExplorer

When I am working with Eclipse quite a few times I would copy a file’s path or want to open a location in Command Prompt to run some scripts. This is always cumbersome. I have to go to the properties and copy the path, go to command prompt, cd to the location…

StartExplorer is a nice plugin that does all of these and more. The screenshot should say a lot… Options like show resource in explorer, start cmd.exe here topped with keyboard shortcuts. Saves a lot of time for me everyday. You can create custom commands too.

 
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Posted in Eclipse, Java, Software

 

Gordon: An open source Flash™ runtime written in pure JavaScript

02 Feb

flashgordon

Tobias Schneider has created a open source Flash runtime in purely JavaScript and HTML5. It is called Gordon. Flash Gordon. Get it. Check out some demos hosted by Paul Irish. This runs in Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. Yes, It runs on iPhone version of Safari too. Pretty cool!

Now if there is a proxy that could convert all flash based sites into Gordon based sites it would be cool. We would not need Flash on iPhone or iPad. [ajaxian]

 
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Posted in Software, iPhone

 

JD: Amazing Java Decompiler

29 Dec

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I just found this cool Java Decompiler, JD from Alon Aizenberg’s Tech Blog. It is just a single small exe (682kb) that can open jar files and decompile classes in an instant. The look and feel of the application is close to Eclipse. But it is blazingly fast. There is an Eclipse plugin too. Check it out.

Long time ago I posted about needing a tool like Reflector for Java. I needed a tool that I can use to quickly open a jar and browse the classes in it. JD comes pretty close. It would be perfect if it showed the outline of classes too.

 
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Posted in Java, Software

 

Chrome Mouse Gesture Extensions

09 Jul

I have been using Mouse Gestures for browsing for quite some time. Can not browse with out it once you get used to it. Till now I have been using gMote to get gestures working in Chrome. Now there is not one but three native gesture extensions for Chome. Check them out here.

I am using the one by os0x. Works great. Now if there was a Super drag and drop extension…

 
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Posted in Chrome, Google, Software, Web

 

Portable Eclipse and Portable Java

02 Jul

I like portable software. I carry around a bunch of them in my flash drive. I just found out that both Java and Eclipse are available as portable versions at PortableApps.com. The Java version they have is Java 6 update 14 but Eclipse is stuck at 3.4.2.

Eclipse uses portable Java, so Java need not be installed in the PC to run it. Nice. The portable version has some trouble finding the workspace but once you correct the path it works fine.

I updated the Eclipse binaries in to the just released 3.5 and it work great too. Nice way to take Eclipse and your work with you.

 
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Posted in Eclipse, Java, Software

 
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