Archive for March 7th, 2009
Google’s Tip Jar
A (new?) service by google, which is a part of Google Moderator, is the “Tip Jar”.
“Tip Jar” is a collection of tips, submitted by the users, and categorized into different categories: Home, Work, Tech, Finance etc…
Users can submit new tips, and vote for tips submitted by others. The tips are displayed according to their popularity (which might be bad for new tips, since it will be harder to discover them).
Anyway, it looks like a nice service by Google, and another step towards making information available for everybody (who can afford a PC and internet connection).
Check it here.
Firefox Add-On to Easily Insert Tabs in Textareas
The default behaviour of hitting a tab in a web page, is moving between HTML objects. If you’re inside a textarea, when you hit tab, the focus will move to another button/textarea/form/etc…
This can be annoying if you’re trying to write code in a textarea (in codepad for example).
Somebody had a solution for this already: Tabinta (Tab In TextArea), a firefox add-on which allows you to insert tab in a text area with no effort.
Use Codepad to Save, Share and Compile Code Snippets
In a previous post, I wrote about Bonetree’s Codebox, a very nice web interface to share syntax highlighted snippets.
Codepad is a similar tool, with more features: You can compile your code and save it permanently. It also has a plugin for vim, which allows you to save/run your code in codepad right from vim.
Codepad supports a few languages, like C, C++, PHP, Python and others. There are many languages it does not support though.
Using Find Command to Find & Manipulate Files
The “find” command is a powerful command, which lets one search for files according to many criteria.
Below are a few examples. I found them here. In this post I just trimmed some of the text of the original post in order to have a quick reference without much explanations.
Go Up As Much Directory Levels As You Need – Easily
This neat and brilliant script by shell-fu allows you to go up as many directory levels as you want.
For example, instead of typing
cd ../../../..
You’ll be able to type the following and get the same functionality:
cd .. 4
About Me
My name is Amir Watad. I have a BSc. in biomedical engineering from The Biomedical Engineering school , Technion , Israel, and a BSc. in electrical engineering from The Electrical Engineering school , Technion , Israel.
I'm a Verification Engineer in Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
I love Linux, the Command Line and the OpenSource Community.
I used to write Poems (Arabic) when I was able to find time for this.
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