Quite a few web sites have fields where you cannot paste with Ctrl-V.
I don’t know why: pasting text input is a great way to speed up your work.
A solution for most of them: Read the rest of this entry »
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Solution: Can’t paste on a web-site with Ctrl-V
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/16
Posted in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows | 1 Comment »
7 screens; 3 computers; 1 keyboard/mouse to direct them all: Input Director
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/12
At home, I have 7 screens on 3 computers on the same desk.
That sounds like a clutter, but all these keyboards and mice hooked up to them add even more clutter.
Until I found out about [Wayback] Input Director a while ago: a (virtual) Software KVM to Control Multiple Computers.
It took only a few minutes to setup, and works like a breeze.
I have played around with it for about 2 months now, and it is great: I did not have to change any settings since the initial – and easy – setup.
Now I just use the keyboard/mouse that are most convenient to my situation: all keyboard/mice can control all computers and monitors.
A breeze indeed!
–jeroen
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Windows 7 shortcuts in Vista or XP
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/09
A while ago, I posted about Windows 7: new shortcut keys (windows hotkeys and more).
When you are in Vista or XP, you can feel a bit ‘lost’ missing those new keyboard shortcuts.
I just learned there is a tool that supplies the new Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts in Vista and XP :-)
–jeroen
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ThinkPads beep during certain key combinations – found the cause
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/05/18
I’ve had an annoying beep on my thinkpad whenever I tried to write CD quickly.
It particularly shows when you press these three keys at the same time:
Shift+CD
Recently, I googled for the symptom to find out the cause.
Below are a few links I found, but this is the actual cause (thanks Kriston!): Read the rest of this entry »
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Duplicate Shortcuts IE8 configuration dialog – Alt-N binds to “No” and “Next”. Are UI designers ever going to learn to be nice to keyboard users?
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/05/17
For every (re)install, IE8 is usually part of the installation.
So, for the upteenth time, I came across the dialog on the right.
This time Alt-N is bound to both the “No” choice as well as the “Next” button.
–jeroen; wishing UI designers would learn to pay more attention to keyboard users…
Via: 20100516-UI-Duplicate-Shortcuts-IE8 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
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Windows 7: new shortcut keys (windows hotkeys and more)
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/05/06
In the past there were already a lot of shortcuts, including a few including the windows key.
SEO Consultants has a good overview of both lists.
Microsoft has the classic list.
Windows 7 introduced quite a few more, which I’ll list below.
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Windows 7 x64 on ThinkPad T61p
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/03/06
Somehow, the latest Windows Vista automatic update screwed my laptop.
It didn’t manage to make a System Restore Point, but in stead managed to remove all previous restore points.
In addition, my laptop now performed like a dog because of excessive disk activity on the primary HDD (login took 30 minutes).
Safe Mode and Safe Mode with Network were fine, so I tried to figure out what was wrong, but gave up after a day of investigating with Process Monitor and Process Explorer, and stopping/pausing allmost all services and killing/pausing almost all processes.
So: I bit the bullet and Installed Windows 7 x64 on my fully loaded T61p.
The machine has dual 7200 rpm 500 Gb drives (I have not used physical DVD’s or CD’s in years), with 4 Gb of memory (the official maximum, but I recently heard it can actually handle 8 gigabyte fine).
It functions as a host (my work is almost exclusively in a virtual machines so I can separate things), so it needs to be a balance of functional but lean installation.
Most of the installation process was straight forward (in fact much more straightforward than getting Vista on it).
Here is the run-down that includes the things I bumped into:
- Installed the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool to copy the installation DVD to a bootable USB stick (I know there many guides on doing this by hand, but I like to be pragmatic).
- Booted from the USB stick and did basic install
- Be surprised about how much hardware was supported out of the box
- Installed these Lenovo drivers (most from the T61p drivers and software matrix):
UltraNav driver (for thehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrackPoint– which I love – and the TouchPad – which I disabled)
FingerPrint driver (I really like the biometric fingerprint login over typing my password)
Hotkey driver (more formally called “features integration”)
4-in-1 Ricoh multi card reader driver (which is not on the driver matrix, and supports SD/SDIO/MMC/MMCplus, MS/MS-Pro, xD Picture Card, and IEEE 1394/FireWire) - DAEMON Tools Lite (a virtual CD/DVD player – ideal on a 2 HDD setup)
- GhostScript and FreePDF (so I can print to PDF files and view PostScript files)
- Adobe Reader (there are faster and smaller PDF viewers, but nothing beats the original)
- Google Chrome (my favorite browser, I use other browsers for testing web-stuff, but those are in virtual machines)
- Fiddler2 (for monitoring HTTP/HTTPS traffic when things go wrong, or I need a direct download URL of something
- Skype (the new 4.x, even though it is almost unworkable compared to the old 3.8.0.188, the old version keeps crashing under Windows 7. I moved my Skype Chat History)
- VMware Workstation (note that officially you need version 7 to run Windows as host or guest, 6.5.3 does seem to work for some people)
- 7zip (my favourite compression tool)
- My standard BIN directory with my favourite light weight command-line tools (did I mention I’m from they keyboard age? Hence the love for the TrackPoint)
Windows 7 feels a lot faster than Windows Vista, and requires a lot less memory for itself (slightly more than 1 gigabyte, where Vista needs almost half a gigabyte more).
–jeroen
Ref: Re: Device Manager unknown devices T61p – lenovo community.
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Welcome to Classic Shell: Classic Start Menu and Classic Explorer functions for Windows 7
Posted by jpluimers on 2009/12/31
One of the things in usability is to enable old skoop people that have been using.
Windows 7 went even further than Windows Vista into changing start menu functionality and explorer functionality that had been there since Windows 95.
So things that have been working for over a decade, suddenly stopped to work, or worse: work differently.
Would you imagine what happened when someone reordered the pedals in a car (from left to right are clutch, brake and throttle) or reassign their functionality?
So some people gathered and wrote Classic Shell.
Now someone please restrore the “backspace” keyboard behaviour back to “go one level up in the folder tree” as it had been for more than a decade…
–jeroen
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Fiddler replaying requests to the ASP.NET Development Server: XP works but Vista not, or “when localhost is not 127.0.0.1 in Fiddler 2”
Posted by jpluimers on 2009/12/09
Today, I bumped into something utterly strange: requests replayed through Fiddler 2 to a locally running ASP.NET Development Server on Vista using localhost URLs did not give a connection.
I use ASP.NET from both C# and Delphi Prism. Most of my development work is on Windows XP (see notes below) but I test on many platforms.
Moving one of the projects from XP to Vista, and testing with Fiddler, I found that when using Fiddler 2:
This form of URL fails on Vista, but works on XP: http://localhost:49703
This form of URL works both on Vista, and XP: http://127.0.0.1:49703
So on Vista – contrary to XP – localhost requests from Fiddler were in fact being sent to the external network adapter on Vista, and the 127.0.0.1 requests to the internal network adapter.
Since the ASP.NET Development Server is bound only to the internal network adapter, external requests don’t work (boy, I wish they did, it would make some of my debugging so much easier!).
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