Archive for the ‘Hint’ Category

Regexr

Saturday, September 6th, 2014

Nice website for learning/testing regular expressions:

http://www.regexr.com/

how to get full path of a unix file

Saturday, September 6th, 2014

ON MAC:

1. Drag the file from finder to a terminal. Yes, pull it out with some effort and just drop it right there…

2. The full path will magically show up in no time!

ON LINUX

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5265702/how-to-get-full-path-of-a-file According to Stackoverflow, you should do:

readlink -f file.txt

ON BOTH:

find $PWD -iname “*” -maxdepth 1

find $PWD -maxdepth 1

How to set up ssh so you aren’t asked for a password

Saturday, September 6th, 2014

https://www.debian.org/devel/passwordlessssh

Calendar exporter

Thursday, August 14th, 2014

calendar exporter:

http://www.gcal2excel.com/

It is simple but does the work you need: calendar exporting, event filter based on keywords and simple statistics.

Wikipedia:Redirect – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saturday, August 9th, 2014

QT:{{”

To create a basic redirect manually, set #REDIRECT [[target page name here]] as the only body text of the page. For instance, if you were redirecting from “UK” to “United Kingdom”, this would be the entire body of the “UK” page:

#REDIRECT [[United Kingdom]]

“}}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect

How to Install Screen Protector on Tablet

Sunday, August 3rd, 2014

http://www.armorsuit.com/screen-protector-tablet

cleanliness and godliness

Saturday, April 19th, 2014

from
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3988

“How to disinfect the Apple internal or external keyboard, trackpad, and mouse… you should use Lysol Wipes or Clorox Kitchen Disinfecting wipes”

An example of this:

http://www.amazon.com/Clorox-Disinfecting-Wipes-105-Count-Canister/dp/B0036B89QC

However, this doesn’t include an ipad screen. For this, see: http://lifehacker.com/5665119/how-to-safely-disinfect-and-clean-your-gadgets

and the following products:

http://www.amazon.com/Klearscreen-iKlear-Apple-Polish-Kit/dp/B00078COKE and “recommended by Apple” Sanus Elements ELM104
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H6014LL/A

Sign in, sign out, and change your password – Gmail Help

Monday, January 6th, 2014

Password change on mobile

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/3114694?hl=en
+
www.google.com/settings/security

Export or Copy/Paste list of iPad apps…: Apple Support Communities

Monday, December 9th, 2013

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2599717

To optimize a DSL connection

Sunday, December 8th, 2013

Expanded speedtest results (in Mb/s downloading and then uploading + latency (ms)) comparing DSL & Cable

mb16 =>

432a => SSID=MarkGerstein : 267, 278, 13

860mbg11=>Verizon-DSL : 6.4, .9 (2nd try: 6.07, 0.84, 33)

860mbg11=>TW-Cable : 6.4, 5.2 (2nd try: 5.46, 5.18, 32)

“12c” SSID=>TW-Cable : .53, .68, 28
“” “” (5′ from base station)=>TW-Cable : 3.8, 5.6, 28 [not matching “turbo” performance]

FD4CN=>Verizon-DSL : 5.1, .8

77c021=>TW-Cable : 8.8, 5.1

http://verizon.net/speedoptimizer

then

http://verizon.net/speedtest

Useful post on 5 v 2.4 GHz:
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/wirelessfaqs/f/5ghz-gear.htm