At the end of the Web

URL’s suck.

When I want to go to Google calendar I want to type just that, or even google cal. Instead of Google dot com slash calendar. When I want to see today’s episode of Colbert report, I should be able to type that in the address bar even though the address is colbertnation dot com.

Enter Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search. Below is a guide to set Google’s “I feel lucky” as default search in various browsers:

Opera:

• Open Google.com, or your favorite Google page.
• Right click the search field and select “Add custom search”
• Click details, in the address field you will see something like this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%s&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

• Now, change btnG=Google+Search to btnI, so it looks like this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%s&btnI&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

• Finally check “Use this as default search engine”

Chrome:

• Enter options -> Basics ->Default search section, click manage.
• Select the already existing Google search, click edit, copy the URL.
• Close, and add new.
• Type a name and, leave keyword empty, and paste into the URL that which you copied and add &btnI, it should be something like this:

{google:baseURL}search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}sourceid=chrome&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%s&btnI

• Click ok, and then set as default.
• You can still search with Google by typing  the keyword (google.com) and then you’ll see the search appear under the address bar.

Martin Uncategorized, web chrome, default search, google, opera

My absolute favourite feature of KDE on linux is the ability to move a window by holding down the Alt button and left-clicking ANYWHERE in the window, and also to hold down Alt and the right-click to easily resize the window. (Why do we need huge window edges MS?)

These features I really miss on windows, but I finally found a small program that makes that possible on windows. It has the awesome name of KDE Mover-Sizer

Enjoy!

Martin Uncategorized KDE, windows

Do you have a problem starting a website on your developer machine but you get an error saying something like:

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process?

Is your website set to run on port 80?

Then ask yourself, are you running skype? If so, skype is probably the reason for this error. Skype is by default configured to use port 80 and 443 as alternatives to the standard port. Remove that under Settings -> advanced -> connections -> Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections.

I always seem to get that error whenever I do a reinstall of windows etc. but it always take me 5-10 min to realize that is the error

Martin web iis, skype