Category Archives: windows

Today’s Readings

The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, including CSS custom property fallbacks, replacing JS with native HTML, reducing font file size, cool dev tool apps, a bunch of WPO treats, remote job stuff, and a ridiculous new browser feature. Happy reading! Continue reading

Today’s Readings

The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web. Happy reading! Continue reading

Today’s Readings

The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web. Happy reading! Continue reading

A better Windows command line experience: Comparing PowerCmd vs. Console2 vs. ConsoleZ vs. ConEmu Vs. Cmder

A short while ago I wrote a post about Console2. Then a reader suggested I try ConEmu or Cmder. So I did. Then I also tried PowerCmd and ConsoleZ. Here is what I thought of each, and which I recommend for you. Continue reading

Today’s Readings

The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web. Happy reading! Continue reading

A better Windows command line experience using Console2

My day-to-day work load requires that I have at least six separate Windows command lines running. Opening them all every time I restart my PC, navigating to the correct directories, copying and pasting the necessary command into each one, and then toggling between the ambiguously-named instances is… annoying. Find out how I moved them all into a single, tabbed app, gave each tab a descriptive name, have each one open in the directory I need it in, and fire the first command I need each to run. Continue reading

Quickly navigate to a command line in Windows

What’s the quickest way to open a command line window, already in a specific directory? Find out! Continue reading

Today’s Readings

The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web. Happy reading! Continue reading

Today’s Readings

I wrote some time ago about the Tractor Beam and the Tricorder both slowly moving from Star Trek to reality. Now we’re talking about the Universal Translator. “But we already have Google Translate and Siri,” you say? Well watch this … Continue reading

Windows 7 + (Chrome > 17) = WTF?

Update: This has been resolved, see my comment from 2012-Dec-06. And in this special case, WTF stands for: What’s with The Font-rendering… This has happened to me a couple times now, and each time I have filed a bug, waited, … Continue reading