Adium makes me love messaging, again.

 

All thanks to Adium. It lets you connect to a plethora of messaging systems like MSN, YAHOO, GoogleTalk, etc… so its great coz i don’t have to have multiple applications running. 

It even automatically saves transcripts of my chats, which i find quite useful, especially if people get disconnected or i close the window accidentally, i won’t lose my chat history.

AND…

isn’t it when awesome when you can chat in a window that looks like this?

however, its Mac only, people, mac only. haha! 

 

SQL Injection for dummies

If  you’ve never been able to understand the dangers of SQL injection, this should clear it up.

Vista application switcher tips and tricks

Here’s some stuff I’ve discovered with Windows Vista’s application switchers (the good ol’ Alt-Tab and the new 3D application switcher). Nothing revolutionary, but just in case you dint know, here it is.

When I got my Vista (Home Premium), I had known that it had the (almost) uber-cool application switcher (the real uber-cool one is still mac OS X’s expose), so I was keen to try it out. So the first thing I did was open a few windows and hit Alt-Tab. I was disappointed, it was the good ol’ 2D app switcher. It looked better, but not as cool as the new one.

The 3D application switcher was only available on the QuickLaunch toolbar. What’s so great about that? Don’t expect me to move my mouse all thousands of pixels to hit a tiny button to switch apps, especially when the boss is walking towards my desk, every millisecond counts!

Well anyway, i finally figured out the shortcut key to the 3D app switcher, its not AltTab, its Windows-Tab (Windows = the key with the Windows logo on it. If your keyboard doesn’t have one, its time to get a new one!)I also discovered some tricks, i call them tricks coz i don’t read manuals (except MSDN and SQL Server BOL) with both the AltTab and Windows-Tab.

AltTab

• Use the mouse. After click Alt-Tab, why keep Tab-ing to the app you want? Just move your mouse to the app you want to activate.
• The switcher normally disappears when you release the Alt key, if you need to keep the switcher open, don’t use Alt-Tab, use Ctrl-Alt-Tab and it’ll stay open even when you release the Alt key and closes when you hit Esc or click the app you want to keep open. That’s how i managed to grap this screen dump…

Windows-Tab

• Use your mouse. The normal Windows-Tab action is to activate the frontmost window in the stack, if you don’t want to keep Tab-ing, just use your mouse to click the app you want to activate.
• Use the scroller on your mouse. After launcher the switcher, use the scroller to scroll between apps.
• Again, to keep the switcher open, launch it using Ctrl-Windows-Tab and it’ll stay open. You can use the mouse scroller, Tab, or mouseclick the app you want to activate. I used it to get this screen dump…