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Preyra Solutions Group | Information Analyst / ETL Developer | Toronto, Canada | ONSITE | www.preyrasolutions.com PSG is a health care consulting, data science and research firm in…

check out tpmiddle to get the trackpoint middle button to middle click on press, and still scroll when you hold it down and move the trackpoint: http://users.v-lo.krakow.pl/~mwrobe…

OS X reused the screenshot shortcut keys from the Classic Mac OS (System [n]) days. And back then, I think Cmd-Shift-1 and Cmd-Shift-2 ejected floppy disks, when there were such th…

Because its maps are offline, I've used it on a plane to track flight progress

I wonder if, given APIs for both Google Maps and Joe's Free And Permissive But Sometimes Wrong Maps, you could: * query both services for each address * if the [lat,lon] are equal …

In Windows 8.1 you can override the scaling for individual apps through their properties dialogs. Set Chrome to not scale, then set the zoom within Chrome to be > 100%. The url bar…

yeah, it can be annoying that the directory stack sequence keeps changing, which means that sometimes you can't easily re-run commands from your history if you've pushd since you l…

I tried using Tiddly for a bit, but ended up moving to wikidpad ( http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/ ) which I've been quite happy with

I got a 3G radio with my last Thinkpad (1.5 years ago) and have barely used it. It seemed like a great feature, but because WiFi is almost ubiquitous (and when not, it's easy enoug…

I definitely agree with this on the desktop, but I wonder if it's still true when folks try to contact you via mobile and they can't keep the browser window open for reference whil…

It'd also be possible to double-park (triple, or more even), using less parking space. If the car in the middle needs to get out it can ask its neighbours (several levels deep) to …

I've found IE to be faster too. Usually when developing web apps I get things working in Firefox first then test in the other browsers. Lately I've been doing some work with Canvas…