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gmark-this

Martin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:06:35 +0000

Dear readers,
A couple days ago I managed to make available my first Chrome extension. GMark This is a Google Bookmarks extension for Google Chrome. It aims to provide a lightweight and elegant interface between Bookmarks and Chrome by providing simple ways of bookmarking new pages and searching bookmarks. Searches are also integrated with Chrome’s Omnibox.

GMark This was motivated by the lack of a simple extension to manage Google Bookmarks on Chrome. For users with a significant amount of labels and bookmarks, using traditional options like YAGBE is not feasible. Loading all your labels on a pop-up and browsing through them is simply not efficient. That’s why GMark This aims to provide the simplest integration between Bookmarks and Chrome, without overheads.

Currently GMark This aims to provide a simple integration between Bookmarks and Chrome, thus, its features also aim to be as simple as possible.

New bookmark creating through a browser action button.
Bookmark search through Chrome’s Omnibox.

You can check it out at http://code.google.com/p/gmark-this/

Remote Shutdown/Restart on Windows

Martin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:02:08 +0000

This is one of things you certainly already had to do.. You are working remotely and for some reason your session freezes (Windows, you know) and you can’t do anything.. Usually you would ask for a colleague that seats nearby to hard reboot your desktop, but what happens when that is not possible???

Now, how to perform a remote shutdown/restart on a Windows box:

Open Computer Management (Local)
In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then click Connect to another computer.
In the Select Computer dialog box, click Another computer, type the name of the computer that you want to restart or shut down, and then click OK. You can also click Browse to search for the name of the computer.
In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Remote computer name), and then click Properties.
On the Advanced tab, click Startup and Recovery.
Click Shut Down to open the Shut Down dialog box.
Under Action, select the actions you want to perform on the computer to which you are connected.
Under Force Apps Closed, select the circumstances under which you want to force applications to close when you shut down or restart the computer, and then click OK.

Note

To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
You must be recognized as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group on your computer and on the computer you are managing to perform this task.

Via Microsoft

If broken it is, fix it you should

Martin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:31:35 +0000

A while ago I was looking for an easy way to explain developers how to find and fix memory leaks. During my research I’ve found this really interesting blog by a Microsoft Engineer, Tess Ferrandez.

She is constantly posting new tips and guides on .NET development and troubleshooting. I really like the “.NET Debugging Labs”, step by step guides on how to fix common issues, such as Memory Leaks, CPU Hangs, Crashes and so on.

If broken it is, fix it you should:
http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/