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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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: