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Autohotkey – Record and Repeat Keystrokes and mouse clicks

By Shivam Vaid On January 19, 2010 Leave a Comment 5,275 views

There are many times when you need to run a test involving repeating certain keystrokes and mouse clicks on an application. This might be for example as part of testing the robustness of a GUI interface that you just created. You essentially want to make sure that repeated use of the buttons and data entering does not lead to any issue. To achieve this, you would first start doing this test manually. However, doing it manually will not only have time constraints but will also limit the number of iterations….. Read More

Google Suggest – A reflection, A danger

By Shivam Vaid On January 18, 2010 Leave a Comment 5 views

As you would be aware, Google Suggest auto-completes your search query in runtime enabling you to search more accurately and use the most common keywords related with that search. The suggest database eventually gets built over a period of time monitoring the usage and most commonly used search keywords. This way, the suggestions are also a reflection of what is being searched mostly on the net by a given set of users. In order to analyze this, I chose to enter a very basic set of query like how, why,….. Read More

PdfMyURL – Convert Any Web Page to PDF

By Shivam Vaid On January 17, 2010 Leave a Comment 60 views

One of the important add-ons for any blog/website is to provide the reader with a facility to download it’s articles as PDF. The reader can eg save the article PDF and view it later as per his/her convenience. While I was looking for a good tool to achieve this, I stumbled upon PdfMyUrl. This site enables you to convert any website in to a PDF. You just need to enter the website address and at a click of the button, you can download the pdf. I tried generating PDFs of….. Read More

Protosphere – An Excellent Platform For Online Teaming

By Shivam Vaid On January 17, 2010 Leave a Comment 21 views

ProtonMedia is a leading provider of virtual world interaction based technology for the enterprise. It has recently released Protosphere which is a social collaboration tool for online teaming and learning. It has a host of communication and social networking tools integrated in to it which make the online interaction for enterprises spanned across geographically apart locations to seamlessly work together on various activities. It will provide those teams with virtual spaces like office conference rooms, avatar for each of the participant( which can be customized ), document sharing platforms, access….. Read More

Identi.ca – The Open Source Twitter

By Shivam Vaid On January 15, 2010 Leave a Comment 34 views

Twitter is one of the most popular social networking application being used today. Right from politicians, professional to celebrities – everyone uses twitter to share their thoughts and feeling with their social counterparts. While we all are aware about twitter, most of us don’t know that there is also another excellent open source application called Identi.ca which is also a similar micro blogging service. Some important points about this service are You need to register for creating your own account You can then post short 140 character messages which can….. Read More

Official Gmail Tips And Tricks

By Shivam Vaid On January 14, 2010 Leave a Comment 35 views

Gmail is today one of the most popular email services on the internet. I myself use multiple gmail accounts and a very satisfied user of the same. Google continuously adds and updates various features in its popular email program. I am from an IT background and even for me it’s sometimes difficult to keep track of all goodies that gmail has to offer. I think even google realizes the same and hence has dedicated a separate section to ensure that all those tips and tricks are consolidated and available at….. Read More

The URL Shortening bandwagon

By Shivam Vaid On January 12, 2010 Leave a Comment 35 views

URL shortening service has been around for a few years now. The earliest I remember is that of seeing many links on certain websites starting with <tinyurl> and wondering what exactly does that mean. URL shortening essentially provides a web page with a URL much shorter than it’s native length. So for example http://www.inficone.com/abc/xyz/mmm/w/index/pages/x.html could just be represented by http://tinyurl.com/infi. But what is the real gain Easy to read and remember. In fact they look more professional. Information regarding many such URLs could be made concise instantly eg when posting….. Read More

OSAlt – Your Open Source Alternative

By Shivam Vaid On December 29, 2009 Leave a Comment 90 views

I mentioned in my last post about how useful a tool Araxis is. Most of the good tools available today typically have a trial version which can be used for eg 30 days or so. In most cases, the trial version doesnt have all the features and also doesnt have the full capabilities. To have all the features and capabilities available – one requires to shell out some money to buy the full version. Depending upon the requirement – this money might be well spent on that tool. However, today….. Read More

Araxis – Best tool for file diff and merging

By Shivam Vaid On December 25, 2009 Leave a Comment 39 views

Once you are dealing with a plethora of files on your disk, with each file replicated across various snapshots of the data; sooner or later you need to be able to take diffs and merge various version of the files. This just not only applies to files in source code if you are a programmer but is also applicable for different text files in general. Sometimes a small problem in a file (which can be easily identified by taking the right diff) can prevent you from making progress on a….. Read More