Most company computers have energy saving policy in place meaning workstations are automatically put on sleep/hibernate when they are idle. This could be a hindrance if you need your computer wide awake. For this you'll need software like Don't Sleep. It is a lightweight portable software that can keep your computer from shutting down, hibernate, turn Off and restart. Its usage is simple, just fire up the software, enable & tick the blocking options, specify the end time and thats it.
Since it is portable, Don't Sleep does not have to be installed. It can be executed quickly from the desktop, and can be brought on a small usb-stick or other removable device. It works on Windows operating system and I tested it on Windows 7 x86.
One critical resource you should monitor is the CPU utilization. When a process/application consumes much CPU usage, other applications will suffer performance. To help you monitor and limit the CPU usage of specific process, you can use a software called ResLoad Notifier. It allows you to set a notification that will be shown whenever a specified process uses more/less CPU than the specified threshold. Once installed, just launched the application and open it from the system tray. The main interface shows current CPU usage information along with all the running threads and applications. You can set an alert for a specific processes or accumulative CPU usage. From the Warning section, you can select either More or Less from pull-down menu and specify CPU usage percentage.
Yesterday I mentioned about an android app that promotes safe driving called Can't Text that allows users to make their Android phones auto reply to text messages or missed call. Today, here is another Android App that is helpful when your driving. SMS Reader is an application that automatically open any incoming SMS and read it loud for you. It reads the Message and the name of the sender. All you need to do is launch the app, press menu and enable it. From then any SMS that you receive will trigger a popup showing your SMS inbox and a female voice will read them out to you.
Here are the main features of SMS Reader: - Read Incoming SMS. - Read the existing messages. - Search for messages - Delete individual SMS
One thing I hate about touch screen cellphones is, it is little difficult to compose text messages while doing something like driving. Unlike the conventional cellphones that have keypad, sometimes you need your both hands to type something and of course it also requires your full attention. Luckily for users of Android Phones such as my Sony Ericsson XPERIA 10, there are free auto-reply android apps like the Can't Text software. Can't Text enables users to set their Android phones to auto reply whenever there are text messages or missed call. It mutes the user's incoming text alert and automatically respond to the sender with a user pre-written message.
On its main UI, there are three buttons at the bottom that allows the user to enable autoreply for text messages, missed calls or both. Enabling autoreply for calls will lock the Ringer Volume at zero for as long as the softwares is running. Auto reply will not be sent to callers whose call are received.
The free version of this software contains advertisements at the bottom. If you want an ad-free version you can buy in the Android Market for $0.99. I tested this on my Sony Ericsson Xperia 10.
Are you trying to develop web apps for iOS and want to test it on iPad? Or you wanna see how your website looks on iPad? With iPad Simulator, You can do both of these without having an actual iPad unit. iPad Simulator is an online web application that simulates iPad within your browser. When you go to the site, the main page displays a screen of iPad. It contains the iOS applications available on an actual iPad however some of them are not still working. But for the purpose of testing web apps and websites, you can click Safari from the bottom menu. Type in the URL of your website or web apps that you wanted to see in action.
After minutes of testing, the Safari browser successfully renders most of the site I tried to browse except for the websites that are hosted in blogspot.com. Overall, iPad Simulator can be useful for testing your web apps and websites on iPad if you don't have one. I tested it on Firefox and Chrome.
Browsers extensions as the name implies extends the usability and power of the browser so user can go beyond what the browser can originally offer. For Google Chrome, you can download as many as you want from their Google Chrome Extensions page. Although there are times that you want to disable all these extensions, for example, incompatibility with a certain websites. You can do so from Settings –> Tools –> Extensions but manually disabling the installed extensions one by one can be difficult so it would be better if you can do those in quickly by typing in Address bar. How? by installing two extensions called Quick Disable and Quick Enable. Obviously Quick Disable is for allowing users to disable apps and extension quickly from the address bar without having to go to the extension management page. To disable any extension, just type Disable [Ext name].
Quick Enable on other hand do the thing in reverse, it enables back the disable extension. To enable a deactivated extension, type Enable [Ext name]. The only thing I wish for the developer of these extensions is to combine the two into one, so users won't have to install two extensions.
I have this small project that runs on background and monitors a directory for XML files, connect to a SQL database and update a particular XML node value with the value from a SQL table. With this article, I will focus on how you can update an XML node value using C#. You'll need the XmlDocument and XMLNode classes from System.Xml namespace. Here is the sample code.
One thing I hate about touch screen cellphones is, it is little difficult to compose text messages while doing something like driving. Unlike the conventional cellphones that have keypad, sometimes you need your both hands to type something and of course it also requires your full attention. Luckily for users of Android Phones such as my Sony Ericsson XPERIA 10, there are free auto-reply android apps like the Can't Text software. Can't Text enables users to set their Android phones to auto reply whenever there are text messages or missed call. It mutes the user's incoming text alert and automatically respond to the sender with a user pre-written message.
