Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category
SUMO Paint
I am always tweaking images for one reason or another, sometimes for a client sometimes for me, but this looks handy…
Sumopaint is a fast, easy, simple but powerful image editing software.
Try it out here: http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint
Use Gmail as a network drive
This is awesome:
Windows only: Mount more than one Gmail account as a remote disk drive with free utility Gmail Drive Config.
- thanks to lifehacker
Yes, it could all disappear but this has now replaced my old WebDAV solution…
I am impressed: Pentaho looks great
As a symptom of developing applications I have dealt with a lot of reporting and BI tools. From Cognos through to Crystal and others. But last night I finally spun up Pentaho.
Wow. I was impressed.
I grabbed their Reporting Evaluation tool and had it up and running in no time. I hooked up a MySQL datasource [...]
Getting SVN keyword expansion happening in Tortoise SVN
Sounds easy enough, and here are the steps:
1. Firstly access the settings file of SVN through the Tortoise context menu (right-click).
2. Enable automatic properties in the miscellany section.
[miscellany]
enable-auto-props = yes
3. Add the file extensions and keywords you want to be activated.
[auto-props]
*.html = svn:keywords=Date Id Rev Author URL
*.js = svn:keywords=Date Id Rev Author URL
*.css = svn:keywords=Date [...]
How to generate an SSH key with PuTTY on Windows
Assuming you have already grabbed PuTTY, you can generate a key with PuTTY using the instructions below:
Run puttygen.exe
In the “Parameters” section select your encryption standard, I use SSH2 DSA. Press Generate.
Move your mouse randomly in the small screen in order to generate the key pairs.
Enter a key comment, which will serve to identify the key [...]