At the end of the Web

After getting my new laptop, an ASUS U36SD, weighting only 1,7 KG, replacing the HDD with an SSD and upgrading the RAM to 8 GB (I can’t believe how cheap ram is these days.) I ran the windows experience index test. These are the results I came up with.

I think that is pretty good for a laptop of this size and price.

Martin Uncategorized

A nice feature in opera is to turn off text selection when dragging on the web page. For instance when using opera on an iPad over remote desktop to your pc. This allows you to drag the page as you would in the native browser on the iPad.

To enable this, right click any toolbar and press customize – apperance – buttons – browser view. Then drag the button “text selection on” to any toolbar of your choice. Then whenever you want to activate the mode, click the button.

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If you are having what seems to be DNS problems in your network, but others seem to connect without problems it might not be DNS problems at all, but something to do with your MTU setting, read more here. This solved a problem I’ve had for a long time on a friends network.

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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