KeyCastr is a small Mac app that shows keystrokes as you perform them. This is useful especially for screencasts when you need to know what was pressed. The only Windows app I could find that does something similar is osdHotKey.
Edit: KeyJedi has been made known to me through the comments. Thanks Hüseyin Tüfekçilerli.
ruby script/generate mailer testmailerdef test_mail(to)
subject "My first email!"
recipients "#{to}"
from 'test'
charset "utf-8"
content_type 'text/html'
body "Testing one two three..."
end
ruby script/consoleTestmailer.deliver_test_mail("you@yourdomain.com")Just set up a few google apps accounts using google mail and Thunderbird. There is a lot of misinformation on the web about what you should be using for settings in Thunderbird. If you want to set it up correctly and have everything function the way it should you really need to look into what Google says and not other blog posts. This is a very important page, but very well hidden.
Install (if you have rubygems) is as easy as:
gem install gl_tail
It requires an older version of net-ssh that you can intsall like this:
gem install net-ssh -v 1.1.4
Configure the gl_tail.yaml file and then just run it straight from your console:
C:\docs> gl_tail
My notes: When configuring the gl_tail.yaml file make sure you use spaces and not tabs because it will mess up if you do.
Updated: A new drobo firmware release now gives me ~7.5MBps on both download and upload through droboshare. Others have experienced problems with this release though so it should probably not be installed until these issues are resolved
I’ve seen very little posted online about Drobo’s (first version Drobo) performance so I decided I’d post my own. This graph to the right shows Drobo1’s sustained performance around 6.8 Megabytes (not bits) per second. This is on a 10/100 network using Drobo 1 and Droboshare with the latest firmware on both. It is a download transfer done on a Windows XP box from Drobo.
I’d be very curious to know what sort of speeds everyone else gets with their Drobos. I know mine will perform a lot better when it is directly connected via USB, but I don’t think it will go any faster over Droboshare.
The net monitoring tool you see is NetMeter
My favorite apps is updated. After three years I’ve found quite a few more apps to use on Windows and I wanted to share them. Feel free to add your own favorites to the comments.
Here’s a program to fix that:
Unlocker: http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
I’ve used this one and it’s very easy. Secondary click on your drive in explorer and hit “Unlocker” from the in context menu. It’ll tell you what processes are using it and even has a button to kill them.
I’ve heard this one mentioned as well, but I haven’t tried it: safelyremove http://safelyremove.com/
Sidenote: Here’s a good thread on tomshardware about ’safe removal’: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/236841-31-safely-remove-hardware
