Archive for the ‘Productivity’ Category

How to create a shared clipboard and copy and paste text between computers with ease

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

(It's been a very busy time here lately: the taxes, a new product that's almost done, but just can't quite get finished, and as a result, no spare time for this blog of mine. Dear Subscribers (both of you), I'm very sorry, please don't give up on me, I'll try ...

Giving Mint.com a try

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

One thing that is always scarce when running a small business is time. I've been constantly looking for tools and services that can automate some of the routine tasks I do, hoping that they would save me some extra time to spend on the more interesting activities. A few months ...

A handy macro for Visual C++ developers: BuildStartupProject

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

I can't believe I did not know this before: it's possible to set up Visual Studio to use F7 to build the startup project rather than the selected one! As a matter of fact, that was the default behavior of the F7 key in Visual Studio 6.0, but then ...

Virtually everything

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Being in the software business, I have to upgrade my main development machine rather often. When switching to a new computer, the most frustrating part of the process is setting it up just the way I like it. That means not only moving the source code and other ...