Category: Tools
IntelliJ Tips and Trics
This is just a dump of tip & tricks I found for IntelliJ, and will be a forever WIP. Find commented out code Find in path -> check Regex -> ^//
DNS Benchmark: Identify fastest DNS servers
If you’ve been a techie for a long time, you’ll know who Steve Gibson from GRC is. His tools are mostly built in Assembly, so it’s rocket-fast. (One thing to note is they’re only for Windows.) For this post, I’d like to share the tool I use to identify which DNS servers I should use, as…
Unpretty print a JSON file
I needed a one-liner JSON payload, but only had the pretty-printed version. And, removing the whitespaces manually was NOT an option. It was super easy on a Mac; just do the following: In a terminal, install “jq” with brew like so brew install jq With your pretty-printed JSON in a file: cat prettyprinted.json | jq…
Highlight Text In Powerpoint: 5 Creative Ideas
Archiving this link as I will definitely use need this in the future. Highlight Text In Powerpoint: 5 Creative Ideas.
Update rsync on OS X 10.9.3
Just in case you’d like to update rsync on your Mac — for example, to do iPhoto incremental back ups — you can do the following: Download the latest and greatest from http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/ Run the following command in a terminal window: ./configure && make && sudo make install That’s it! Hope this helps.
Free Windows screen capture app
It’s called ScreenHunter…simple to use and it’s free! Here’s some more details: