I have always maintained an incremental Copy for my Preferences for the Applications that I use very often and which(The Settings) improves with time for the most Productive Environment experienced by me.
I also keep the backup copy of them in a Universally accessible Location on the World Wide Web. What better way then publishing in my own Blog.
I am uploading the File with the Preferences settings.
maximum-productivity-with-the-ultimate-winscp-toolbar-preference.ini
You will need to make a small modification though, That is the Local Path which is set to D:\bijay\Suite in my case.
Here is the …

Here is a Google Toolbar Custom Button to Search php.net for all LAMP Developers
Its a Button which you can add to your Google Toolbar.
It makes your life easy by enabling you to highlight text on a web page and search for that text on php.net. with ease.

select a text in a web page.
Right click for the popup menu
Click on the label send to PHP Reference

It will search the entire php.net site for the selected text (can be a function name, class name, news or just about anything PHP) and show …

I use Google Web History extensively to find things that I remember having read in the Web as they say in their Blog at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/your-slice-of-web.html
Imagine being able to search over the full text of pages you’ve visited online and finding that one particular quote you remember reading somewhere months ago

Now the Problem is that I can’t recollect whether the quote that I remember reading sometime back was through Google Reader or through simple Web Page.
And the entries that I read on Reader don’t appear on Google Web History.
I …

Why isn’t there a shortcut to create new folder in windows explorer. not even a toolbar button as in the open file or save file Dialog Boxes.
If I have to create a folder I have to right click point/click my mouse on the command labeled Create and New Folder from the subsequent popup menus.
Strange…
Do post comment if you know of any hack for this.
Update(12th December 2007):Solution/Hack:Found this article at http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1086888824
The software bxNewFolder adds a “New Folder” button to the toolbar of Windows Explorer. It also provides a hotkey …

Here is another Google Toolbar Custom Button to Search with the Google Experimental Search Left Hand Search Navigation enabled.
This experimental Search enables you with the following as documented in Google Experimental Search Home Page
Search deeper in a particular type of content—patents, products or news, for example. Google searches across all kinds of content, then ranks results by relevance.
If you want to …

Here is a Google Toolbar Custom Button to search your Web History through Google.
Requirements:
Google Toolbar must be installed in your Browser with the PageRank feature activated and Web History in your Google Account enabled. Google has Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Therecould be Toolbars for other Browsers also.
You can check and install Google Toolbar from http://toolbar.google.com
You can learn more about Google Web History from here
Click here to Add the Button to your Google Toolbar
Its a single XML file and you can download the XML file and view its …

In my Firefox settings I keep the Download window from opening when a new download is queued. I prefer to have as little numbers of Tabs and/or windows opened at any time as possible (Multi Tasking).
But this has a side effect I can’t see the progress of the Downloads when I want to without opening the Download window by pressing the Keyboard shortcut Control + J (Which I am not as much used to) SO I need to either click on Tools -> Download or click on an icon which …

I just explored a feature in Gmail.. for my Did you know Series..
While selecting some email drafts for discarding I clicked on a checkbox by keeping the Shift bbutton pressed to select it and then clicked on another checkbox for another item in the list up above I saw all the items between these tow items got selected. When it was done I was surprised as it wont happen in any other Application from a Web developer’s point of view.
Selection of all the items between the two items that …

Gmail rolled out its new version a couple of days back.
Gmail Speeds Up, Improves Contacts
They have improved the Contacts manager to a great extent. but It still lacks the capability to merge Contacts. A feature I am waiting for since long.

I can now log into multiple Google Account at the same time on Google Talk Desktop Client.
On Google’s own Google Talk client for Windows…
No need to be logged in with various Browsers for different identities…Basically, to have “Google Polygamy” you need to run Google Talk with the following switch: /nomutex
1. Right-click on the desktop2. Select New3. Select Shortcut4. Paste this into the text box:“c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex5. Click Next and choose a shortcut name such as Google Talk1, Google Talk2, or something related to your Gmail account for easy remembering …