Productivity

Make Google Even Smarter With Google Subscribed Links

Just noticed this feature today in my Google Preferences page (I don’t visit this page regularly so I can’t tell how new this feature is).

This feature allows you to subscribe to different kinds of sources to lookup your query in, in addition to the “regular” search.

You can enable it in your Google Preferences. And you can manage your subscription in the Subscribed Links page.

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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 Google No Comments

Firefox Extensions To Make Web Pages More Eye Friendly

To understand what I’m talking about, take a look at Dr Chip’s Vim Website which is a great resource about vim-related stuff, but is an extremely ugly website, I mean, it really hurt my eyes whenever I visit it.

If you use Firefox, then you can easily solve this problem with these two Firefox extensions. Both serve the same purpose: Making websites easier to read, by removing distractions and allowing you to focus on the content instead. Each one displays the website in a different style, and they have different options. I installed both and use them alternately (and regularly).

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Sunday, July 18th, 2010 Firefox No Comments

Fetch Links From Twitter Into Your RSS Reader

Twitter streams are usually full of links, most of them are shortened by a URL shortener, and filtering them might be time consuming.

A cool service, Readtwit, solves this problem intelligently: Using Readtwit, you can easily create a RSS feed of all links appearing in your twitter stream. The service will fetch the links, and send the full story to your RSS reader. It allows you to filter the tweets (block people and block hashtags).

Neat and time-saving. Try it and have fun ;)

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Saturday, September 26th, 2009 Twitter No Comments

Google Reader Useful “Send To” Services

Recently, Google have added a “send to” feature to Google Reader, which allows one to share an item in social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc…).

The greatest thing in this feature is, that Google allows you to add custom sites to the “Send To” destinations. A few nice sites are listed below:

1. Download item as PDF (via)

Name: Save as PDF
URL: http://savepageaspdf.pdfonline.com/pdfonline/pdfonline.asp?cURL=${url}
Icon URL: http://www.adobe.com/lib/com.adobe/template/icon/pdf.gif

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Saturday, September 26th, 2009 Google No Comments

Create Multiple Nested Directories in Linux

Did you know that you can create a complete directory tree with one command?

Let’s start with a simple example:

mkdir -p a/b/c

will create this tree:

`-- a
    `-- b
        `-- c

And any of these:

mkdir -p a/{b1,b2}/c

or

mkdir -p a/b{1,2}/c

Will create this tree:
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009 Bash 2 Comments

Share Code Snippets Easily From the Command Line

This is a great tip I found at commandlinefu to easily share code snippets write from the command line.

First, you may want to add this to your aliases file:

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alias share='curl -F "sprunge=<-" http://sprunge.us | xclip'

(If you don’t have the xclip program, you can easily install it from your package manager.)

Now, say that you have a c program named “hello.c”, to share it, type this (after reloading your aliases file of course):

cat hello.c | share

Now, the code is already in the internet, and the URL is in your clipboard. Go to firefox and click the middle mouse button in the URI area. You’ll see a URL similar to this:

http://sprunge.us/BaFS



To view the code with syntax highlighting and line numbers, just append “?c? (or “?lang” where ‘lang’ is the relevant programming language). So the final URL should look like this:

http://sprunge.us/BaFS?c

Enjoy ;)

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Saturday, June 13th, 2009 Programming No Comments

Navigate Efficiently To Your Most Used Directories With Autojump

Autojump is “a cd command that learns”.

I use to visit a small number of directories on daily basis. For example, every time I want to visit my studies directory I used to type:

cd ~/Studies/Winter2009/

With autojump, I just need to type:

j Win

And hit the [tab] key (It supports auto-completion).

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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Bash 1 Comment

Send Self Reminders To Your Email From The Command Line

The following will allow you to send self reminders/TODO items to your Email at a specific time.

For example, if you want to remind yourself to submit an assignment at 15:20, you’ll be able to run this command to do it:

tdr “submit assignment” 15:20

This will send an Email to you, with the subject: [TODO] submit assignment. Email will be sent at 15:20.

To be able to do this, you migh need to configure your mail command (see my post about this).

Then, add this function to your ~/.bashrc file (or any file sources in bashrc):

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Saturday, March 21st, 2009 Linux No Comments

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.

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Saturday, March 7th, 2009 Google No Comments

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.

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Saturday, March 7th, 2009 Bash No Comments
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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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