Tip – Vim Indent Solution

vim indentation

Some time back we wrote about a tip to fix vim indentation getting problematic when copy-pasting. That works great – but only if the original code that you are copying is indented properly. It may be indented properly but with different indentation settings (tabs instead of spaces, indent of 2 or 8 spaces instead of your favourite of 4 spaces). When added to the your code, it stands out awkwardly from the rest of the code. Here’s another use case – as programmers, we often encounter badly indented code and….. Read More

How To Customize Genesis WordPress Theme – Part I

Subscription Options Wordpress Plugin

This is the first post in a series on how to customize the Genesis premium theme. I recently installed the Genesis premium theme from Studiopress and have been experimenting with customizing it. I would be sharing on what all was tried and what results did it yield. One basic tip to remember is to always use the Genesis Child theme instead of making changes directly in the Genesis framework Customizing the Sidebar The default sidebar that comes with Genesis is empty. You just have a primary widget space and it….. Read More

Get Free Public Images From MorgueFile

Morgue File License

Getting good free public images can be sometimes a pain. Majority of the sites that provide them make them look free on the face value but add multiple terms and conditions which often make you avoid using them. In that context one service, which offers public images in a really free and fair manner is MorgueFile. This service provides free high resolution stock digital images for use in your work regardless of whether it is commercial or not. It calls its archive creatives by creatives as you can also contribute….. Read More

Get Images For Commercial Use Through Google Search

Google Advanced Image Search

In my earlier posts, I had talked about how can you get royalty free photos for your blog and also have creative commons images in your wordpress blog posts easily. However, if you are looking at an even simpler way to get free images for commercial use, you do not need anything more than your regular Google image search. So what do I need to do? Head over to Google advance image search. Enter the keyword for image search along with optional parameters like file type/size. Under the usage rights….. Read More

Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts Tabs

When I am using Firefox or Palemoon, its pretty typical to have 10-20 tabs opened at one time. If the number of opened tabs are small, the browsing across tabs is pretty easy. However, if the number of tabs are large, it becomes a pain if you need to go back and forth across tabs. Following are the keyboard shortcuts which immensely help improve productivity while working with Firefox . photo credit: dimnikolov Ctrl-1 – This takes you to the first tab that you have opened ( the leftmost tab….. Read More

Convert PPT To Video Using AuthorStream

AuthorStream Upload PPT

If you have a ppt file which you want to convert to a video and eg upload to Youtube, you must checkout an online service called AuthorStream. It essentially enables you to share your presentations online eg on your blog or Youtube. The service is absolutely free and all you need to do is register on the website and upload your presentations. Once the presentation is uploaded, you get a URL using which you can embed this presentation on your own website and it will play as a flash movie.….. Read More

C Program For Generating Incremental MAC And IP Addresses

The other day I had this requirement to generate 4K incremental MAC and IP addresses and use them for some configuration. Typing 4k addresses by hand was never an option. So I spent some time to write a small C program that did the job for me for generating 4K mac and ip addresses starting from a given initial value. The idea was pretty simple The program should be able to print out the addresses which I can copy paste to create eg a command file. The program should take….. Read More

Linux – Search Text In Files And Open Result In VIM

Directory Structure

If you are working on a project which has a lot of source files, there is always a need of searching for a given text or string in all the files of your work area and possibly opening all those files one by one either to check for the usage of that text or for general viewing. In this post, I will explain how you can search for a given string or a piece of text in all the files of your project and be able to open each of….. Read More

Rental Apartment Inspection Checklist

Rental Checklist

If you are looking to take a house on rent in the near future, read on. Renting a house is not an easy job. It requires you to visit multiple houses in different apartment complexes. For every house you need to evaluate whether it is fitting your requirements and whether it has all the bare minimum bells and whistles that you desire. photo credit: Sarah_Ackerman If you are lucky, you can find one pretty quickly. On the other hand, you might just have to wait for a good house for….. Read More

Yahoo Mail Search Not Working [Solved]

Several months ago my Yahoo Mail search stopped working.  It did not stop working completely; rather it did not return all results especially if the matching messages were more than a month old. photo credit: Ivan Walsh Initially I assumed that this was a glitch and it would be automatically resolved in a couple of days. However weeks and months passed; but it wasn’t fixed. Googling revealed that the problem is likely a corrupt index file. This problem has happened to several users (but not all?). However, Yahoo can/will not….. Read More