Free Microsoft Office Online, better than Google Docs!

Microsoft’s Office Online is a completely free, web-based version of Microsoft Office. This online office suite is clearly competing with Google Docs, but it’s also a potential replacement for the desktop version of Office.

Some advantages (similar to Google Docs/Drive)

• Browser based, so can access from anywhere, from any OS
• Can be shared with others easily
• Better collaboration features
• Free!

You can create Word, OneNote, PowerPoint, Excel, Calendar etc along with having 7GB free space on OneDrive.

• https://office.live.com/start/default.aspx

Free Templates (Project Track, calendar, business proposals, memo, resume, 12 month time line etc)

• https://odcom.officeapps.live.com/Templates/templates-for-Word

Browse your created documents :

• https://onedrive.live.com/?qt=mru

Beside: here you can access some GoogleDocs public templates as well,

o https://drive.google.com/templates?view=public#

Hacking Google : Tips & Tricks

• Free Downloads of any type
• Ever needed an old Android app but couldn't find the APK for what you were looking for? Or wanted an MP3 but couldn't find the right version? Google has a few search tools that, when used together, can unlock a plethora of downloads: inurl, intitle, and filetype. For example, to find free Android APKs, you'd search for -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" apk to see site indexes of stored APK files
• -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" apk
• intitle:"index of" downloads
• filetype:pdf Javascript

• Search Product, Recipes, and More with Reverse Image Search
• With Google, you can just drop a picture into Google Images and it'll search for similar pictures. 

• Get google cache copy directly
• We all know Google Cache can be a great tool, but there's no need to search for the page and then hunt for that "Cached" link: just type cache: before that site's URL
• cache:http://vishnu-agarwal.blogspot.com/

Hack new Yahoo Mail!

Yahoo Mail is back with a Bang! 

By now you must have heard that Yahoo have launched much cooler Mail

However, to make it much usable, I'm trying with few Hacks.

* Increase the Message Read Pane Area (stretch)

In Mailbox vertical split, Inbox area is hardly using 65% of my screen width, and right most ~20% of the area is unused (Ads, Banners!). Moreover, my content viewable area is quite small.

1. Check if you have Greasemonkey or Tempermonkey installed in your browser.
2. Install the following script there:

1. // ==UserScript==
   // @name       Ymail stretch
   // @namespace  http://vishnu-agarwal.blogspot.com/
   // @version    0.1
   // @include    https://in-mg0.mail.yahoo.com/neo*
   // @description  stretches the new YMail Inbox area
   // @match      https://in-mg0.mail.yahoo.com/neo/*
   // @copyright  2012+, You
   // ==/UserScript==
   
   if(ele = document.getElementById('shellcontent')) ele.style.width='1300px';
   

Done!

Will update the post with more tweaks!

References:

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo

2. http://vishnu-agarwal.blogspot.com/2010/03/introduction-to-greasemonkey.html

3. http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/63462971435/yahoo-mails-sweet-16-is-sweet-a-brand-new-view

Webinar : Selenium Test Automation

Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 5:00 PM IST

In current era, the software project deliveries are getting very fast paced to meet the strong growing demands from the customers and users esp. on the web application side. The competition is hot and teams which will fail to deliver fast, on time and with high quality will loose out in the race to win the customers and users.  

 

Testing forms a crucial part of the achieving these objectives. Banking just on manual testing may slow the pace and increase the business risk. Hence, there is lot of demand from testing professionals to automate web application testing and hence ensure faster test results and higher test coverage.   

"Selenium automates browsers." That's it

Selenium is one of the most popular tool to achieve this objective.It is widely used due to its robustness and unique features. It does not incur additional cost to company to acquire this tool as it is open source and free and is backed by some of the leading software companies. Those who become skilled in this tool and its technology will gain to stand to grab opportunities coming up in the market place and better their career prospects as software testing professionals.  

Key Learning Areas:  

• What is Selenium IDE?
• What is Selenium RC?
• What is Selenium Grid?
• What is Selenese?
• What is Selenium Web Driver?
• What is Selenium 1.0 vs 2.0?
• Can we do parallel test execution using Selenium?
• Why to use Selenium?

Speaker's Biography

Ganesh Sahai has done B. Tech. from IIT Delhi (1993) and EGMP from IIM Lucknow. He has been founder, co-founder and founder team member of few start up companies and initiatives in the field of information technology, marketing and academics.

He has worked for 12 yrs at Adobe since 1999. He has led and setup many of the key testing teams from scratch for various Adobe products, like, Acrobat, Adobe Reader, AIR, CS (Creative Suite) , Tools etc. spanning desktops, handhelds (mob. phones etc.), hosted and enterprise area .

Resources /Reads about Selenium:

• http://seleniumhq.org/ 
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_(software)

Webinar Recording:

Hacking Mac : Useful installations & shortcuts

Some of the software usually you'll love to have:


Mac Installers:

1. iSync (not available for Mountain Loin)
2. Adobe Reader
3. Adobe flash player
4. Adobe Air
5. Twhirl
6. Evernote
7. OneNote
8. Picasa
9. Adium
10. Alfred
11. Skype
12. Chrome
13. VLC
14. Keepassx
15. X11 and XQuartz (Macport)
16. MySQL (mysql/php configuration)
17. Skitch
18. Sublime 2
19. SilverLight
20. ImageMagick
21. Ntfs-3G
22. Java & eclipse
23. GreaseMonkey / TemperMonkey Script - firefox/chrome

Commands:

1. Install .dmg from Command Line : hdiutil mount cotvnc-20b4.dmg 

*nix Commands:
In Mac Terminal:

1. ls -lSr : list files (-S for sort by size)
2. cd - :  to swap directories to the previous working directory
3. for f in *.txt;do echo $f;done : Looping over a set of files
4. find . –name "*.txt" –mtime 5 : files & folders modified in the last 5 days
5. rename –v 's/foo/bar/g' * : Rename files using regular expressions
6. mv /path/to/file.{txt,xml} #rename just part of a filename
7. cp /etc/rc.conf{,-old} #Backup of the file
8. sudo !! #represent the last command you ran
9. mkdir my{1,2,3} #will create my1,my2 & my3 folders
10. Bash Shortcut 
1. Ctrl + U: Clears the line from the cursor point back to the beginning.
2. Ctrl + A: Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.
3. Ctrl + E: Moves the cursor to the end of the line
4. Ctrl + R: Allows you to search through the previous commands.
11. Using Alias : Some useful examples
1. alias agi='sudo apt-get install'
2. alias emp='cd /usr/local/mysql/data/employee'
3. alias grep='grep --color'
4. alias ls='ls –l' # if you always wanted ls to actually do ls –l

Some shorcuts:

1. Shift + Command + I : Compose outlook
2. Shift + Command + N : New Folder
3. Shift + Command + 4 : Screen Capture
4. Command + Alt + D : Dock Hide / Unhide
5. Command + Alt + Esc : Force Quit
6. Command + M : Minimize
7. Command + H : Hide 
8. Command + D : Clone in finder
9. Command + Q : Quit
10. Command + I : File Info
11. Command + S/C/V : Save/Copy/Paste
12. Command + Delete : Delete
13. Enter / Return : Rename
14. Space : Quick Info
15. Command + Space : Spotlight
16. Delete : Backspace
17. Delete + fn : Delete
18. Command + Z : Undo
19. Command + Shift + Z : Undo
20. Command + Left : beginning of line
21. Command + Left : Ending of line
22. Alt + arrow : jump by word
23. Command + Alt + I : Inspector in Browser
24. Shift + Ctrl + arrow: Word selection
25. ctrl + arrow : Desktop switch
26. Lock Screen : Enable Hot Corner

BootStrap from Twitter

What is BootStrap?

It a front-end open source toolkit for rapidly developing web applications. It is a collection of CSS (CSS3) and HTML(HTML5) conventions.

It uses some of the latest browser techniques to provide you with stylish typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation and everything else you need in a super tiny (only 6k with gzip) resource.

Technologies used in it?

HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, jQuery (but not limited to these J )

• By nerds, for nerds! Built at Twitter by @mdo and @fat, Bootstrap utilizes LESS CSS, is compiled via Node, and is managed through GitHub to help nerds do awesome stuff on the web.

• Made for everyone! Bootstrap was made to not only look and behave great in the latest desktop browsers (as well as IE7!), but in tablet and smartphone browsers via responsive CSS as well.

• Packed with features! A 12-column responsive grid, dozens of components, javascript plugins, typography, form controls, and even a web-based Customizer to make Bootstrap your own

Benefits?

• A clean and uniform solution to the most common, everyday interface tasks developers come across
•  Light weight,   Easy & faster development
• Well tested across OSs & Browsers ( ie6 users please excuse J ) 

I want to try!

·         Site : http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

·         Download : http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

·         Get Started : http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/getting-started.html

·         Complete Documents : http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html

Note, the above sites/links itself built in bootstrap.

References:

• https://dev.twitter.com/blog/bootstrap-twitter
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Bootstrap 

YUIDoc JavaScript documentation generator released

Today was the official release of the new YUIDoc JavaScript documentation generator. YUIDoc is a Node.js application that generates API documentation from comments in source, using a syntax similar to tools like Javadoc and Doxygen. YUIDoc is currently powering the API documentation for YUI and has been actively updated over the last year.

YUIDoc provides:

• Live previews YUIDoc includes a standalone doc server, making it trivial to preview your docs as you write.
• Modern markup YUIDoc’s generated documentation is an attractive, functional web application with real URLs and graceful fallbacks for spiders and other agents that can’t run JavaScript.
• Wide language support YUIDoc was originally designed for the YUI project, but it is not tied to any particular library or programming language. You can use it with any language that supports /* */ comment blocks.

See the blog post for more details:
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/05/09/yuidoc-0-3-0-is-official/