I am fairly new to using a MAC OSX laptop as a daily driver and the one I am setup with is running the latest and greatest Lion. One thing that annoyed me when I first started using this laptop was the fact that scrollbars did not always display so I would have to resize the window to scroll in some scenarios. Use the directions below to enable scrollbars to display at all times on OSX Lion.
I have looked in the past but never found a good tool for testing multiple browsers in both OSX and Windows however today I came across an Adobe product called BrowserLab that works great. The Adobe BrowserLab service is an online one that doesn’t cost any money and when I initially used it I only had to verify my email address and then I was off to the races testing websites in multiple browsers. Below I describe the accuracy of BrowserLab, the browsers you can test, and how easy it is to use.
Recently I wrote an article about how to install clear via Cygwin on Windows however I used the Yellowdog Updater on CentOS Linux to first figure out what package installs clear. Below I describe how to use yum to figure out what Linux package installs a specific application followed by installing clear or verifying the package that provides clear is already installed.
When I SSH to Linux servers I use the clear command a lot. This allows me to quickly reset the shell interface so there is no output so depending on if I have typed the incorrect command numerous times or the screen is filled without from something like the locate command I find it really useful to reset the interface so the screen is blank again without having to hit enter 50 times. On all of my Windows machines I have Cygwin installed to provide as much of a Linux feel as possible however I never have taken the time to figure out what installs the clear command so I could have the same luxury of clearing the windows Command Prompt or the Console2 application I use on a regular basis. Below I describe how to install clear on Windows using the Cygwin application.
Earlier I was analyzing a bunch of data and needed to go through a couple hundred columns and fill out specific data in each column. One of the tasks I needed to complete was adding a URL to a single cell and once that URL was added to the cell I needed to then create a hyperlink for each specific cell to a configuration application that had specific data about each URL. Do complete this easier I needed a keyboard shortcut to initiate the hyperlink addition configuration window in Office Excel. Below I describe what the keyboard shortcut is and what it does.