Yanesh Tyagi

Google Reader is a great application from Google Labs. This allows you to organize your blogs, manage your subscriptions and share interested posts with your blogs. All this is available online. This means you can access all your settings and blogs from anywhere. You can also access Google reader through mobile device. Keyboard Shortcuts: Google reader is popular for its keyboard shortcuts. According to The Official Google Blog "j" key is the most popular key. This is used to move to the next item. You can find a list of popular Google Reader keyboard Shortcut keys here . A complete list of keyboard shortcut is available here . However, the best keystroke is "?". This is "/" key with shift key pressed. This provides help on all other keyboard shortcuts. Google reader have a very large list of features. I will discuss these features in the next post. Technorati Tags: Google+Reader , Keyboard+Shortcuts , Google+Reader+Keyboard+Shortcuts , Blog+Management+T...

  Comparison of Intel Processors for Desktop     Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q9550 Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E8500 Pentium® Dual-Core Processor Pentium® 4 Processor Processor Number QX9775 Q9550 E8500 E2200 N/A Architecture 45 nm technology 45 nm technology 45 nm technology 65 nm technology 90 nm technology L2 Cache 12 MB 12M 6M 1 MB 1M L3 Cache N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Clock Speed 3.20 GHz 2.83 GHz 3.16 GHz 2.2 GHz 2.80A GHz Front Side Bus Speed 1600 MHz 1333 MHz 1333 MHz ...

While using windows XP, I was facing a problem. I was working on a multilingual web site. we were showing tool tips to help user to understand what a particular button will do or where a link points. The tool tips were working fine for language which uses English language characters. But in case of other characters (read unicode) such as Chinese or Arabic, it showed small boxes instead of letters. I had to do lot of research on the internet (googling is my first habit) and here is what I found: To set your tooltip font to be able to display Unicode characters: Right click on the desktop, pick Properties -> Appearance -> Advanced ->Item: ToolTip, then set the font to Arial Unicode MS or other large font. This will show unicode characters in the tool tip.

As a hardcore developer I found that typing is easy to me then using mouse. Mouse is an obstacle. Taking hands off the keyboard is time consuning. It takes me out of comfort zone. I like to use keyboard where ever possible and efficient. Thanks to the developers of Visual studio 2005, they provided keyboard shortcuts to the most frequest tasks. Though the use of named commands is always recommended instead of keyboard shortcuts. But I found that these key strokes are most common and no one reassign these to custome actions. Its safe to get used to these shortcuts. Here is a list of my favourite shortcusts. Tool Boxes And Windows CTRL+ALT+L : View Solution Explorer. I use Auto Hide for all of my tool windows to maximize screen real estate. Whenever I need to open the Solution Explorer, it’s just a shortcut away. CTRL+ALT+X : Toolbox Window CTRL+ALT+O : Output Window CTRL+\, E : Error List Window CTRL+\, T : Task List Window F7 : Toggle between Designer and Source views. CTRL+PgDn : To...

Command Window: Ctrl+Alt+A Named commands are used to access VS features from Command Window. Visual Studio 2005 provides full intellisense support in the command window. I experienced that using named commands is much faster than accessing these features with mouse. Named commands allow you to access and use menu commands in the command window. To use named commands, simply type the name of menu. Press '.' and VS will provide intellisense. Type the name of the menu option or select it from intellisense. Example : To access Find Results 1 window you have to 1. Click on the 'View' menu and then 2. Click on the 'Find Results' and 3. Finally choose 'Find Results 1'. Now if you want to use named commands, 1. Press Ctrl+Alt+A to activate command window. 2. Type View.findresults1. You don't need to type full text. Intellisense provides yoy write text. Just press enter. Some Examples of Named Copmmands: Window.NewWindow : Open a new window on your...

Visual Studio 2005 provides some excellent document management capabilities. Most of the we are not aware of these features. One of the feature is open document tab groups. Unlike VS 2003, it shows only as much tabs as fits in the window width. There is no scrolling. Instead, VS 2005 provides dropdown menu to select from all open documents. Inseated of selecting open documents, you can also do some other functions. I am planning to write a series on useful-but-less-known features of VS 2005. This is second post in the series. ( read first post) In continuation to my previous post on managing open documents, here are some more tricks. Right click on the open document tab group. A context menu will appear with following options: Save default.aspx.vb Close Close all but this Copy full path Open containing folder New horizontal tab group New vertical tab group Save default.aspx.vb Allows you to save currently selected document. Currently selected document is the one which is open in the...

To close open documents selectively: 1. Go to Window -> Windows. 2. This will show list of all open windows (not just those which you see on the tabs). 3. Select the windows you want to close. Use shift (or ctrl) key for multiple selection. You can also use ctrl+A to select all windows. 4. Click "Close window(s)" button to close selected windows. I experienced that the speed of loading a project into visual studio is directly proportional to the number of open documents. Generally, we open the document as we need it. And then we don't close it. Visual studio 2005 displays only a few number of documents on the tabs. Rest remains open but are hidden. You can click on the down arrow near the 'X' button of the document window to select the open document. To keep you project loading fast, always keep minimum number of open documents.