Link to cancel your AWS account/services

Just head over to: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/manageYourAccount?#productToCancel

Reference to the quick link from:
http://drewsymo.com/cloud-computing/how-to-cancel-your-amazon-web-services-aws-account/


Cross Post: http://bschandramohan.blogspot.in/2013/07/link-to-cancel-your-aws-accountservices.html

CommStor Tech

Wishing the company CommStor Tech all the best! FB and YouTube page looks good.

Download Java Dependent Jars using Maven

To add Java Sources and Javadocs to the maven repository (basically so that you can explore via Eclipse or other IDEs), please refer to:
http://tedwise.com/2010/01/27/maven-micro-tip-get-sources-and-javadocs/

Interesting internal URLs in Chrome

If you are using Chrome and love the feature where typing in few characters at the address bar completes the URL, have a look at chrome://predictors/ (Type it in address bar).

Lists all the combinations that have been used and their frequency. Now you know why typing in f lists facebook.com and not ftv.com 

One more interesting URL for chrome users: chrome://omnibox/
It lists out how your omnibox (address bar in other browsers) list out contents in the drop down as you type.
For e.g., just type india and press submit. It will list out options which it will show in the drop down when you actually type it out in omnibox. And it also shows category where it was fetched from (history/bookmarks/google search)

Images in Emails

Do you get emails with images, and outlook blocking the display of images in the preview/display page? Then this image would resonate well: 

Image files were always thought to be vulnerable for viruses as it’s quite easy to embed malicious code into jpg or other format of images. See this reference for some more details: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/press-office/press-releases/2002/06/va_perrun.aspx

Now this problem can be easily mitigated by good image readers/scanners which only understand the image format and display it if it adheres to that standard and it doesn’t execute anything.

So VIRUS is not the problem. If you carefully read the warning, it says to “protect privacy”… 

That’s interesting! What can a image from a 3rd party site do with privacy? Answer is simple and it’s not addressable by email clients.

Consider the image(s) to be downloaded is at customized link for your email id. Once this image is downloaded from the site, it just means that your email id is valid. Quick and Safe way for spammers to make sure your email id is valid and can be targeted for more spams! Since email client like outlook can’t easily determine if the image is used for email id verification or not, it simply blocks images asking you to validate to download images. This happens everytime the sender id isn’t from your trusted domain or safe list.

This concept is not only used by spammers but interesting apps have been designed using this. Checkout: http://www.spypig.com/

All this does is find out if your email has been read without asking for read receipt from clients!

TextWrangler and formating XML & JSON Documents

TextWrangler is a good alternative for Notepad++ on Mac Os X but it quite doesn't have the plugins that notepad++ enjoys.

2 Scripts which I really use:

Format Xml Document:
http://www.bergspot.com/blog/2012/05/getting-xml-tidy-xmllint-to-work-on-textwrangler-4-0/

Format JSon Document:
http://ukitech.blogspot.in/2012/08/format-json-in-free-textwrangler.html


Cross:post from
http://bschandramohan.blogspot.in/2012/10/textwrangler-and-formating-xml-json.html

Mac OS X Lion Tweaks Tool

Mac OS X Tweaks - Very useful tool especially to show and hide hidden files.
http://ifredrik.com/applications/download_step.html

F5 and F6 on MAC OS X

If you have the Mac OS X laptops and wondering what the F5 and F6 keys do like me, then here is the answer: It's for the backlit keys of the keyboard.
I was always thinking that laptop was intelligent enough to figure out when to light up the keyboard and when not to (depending on the surrounding lights) but looks like it can't :(. That is disappointing :D :)

XCode 4.3.2 install fails

If you get an error stating mobile device framework has to be installed, but errors out when trying to install it, then try the following:
Right click on the xcode.app file and click on show package contents.
Goto Contents/Resources/Packages/ and open MobileDevices.pkg
Try launching xcode after installing above and it should go ahead fine now.

MAC: Remove icons from Finder toolbar

Customize Toolbar doesn't have option to remove the icons. Right clicking the icon only gives options to

If you want to remove the icon, then press "Command" and drag the icon outside the toolbar and release the mouse.

Associating file types to an app in MAC

There doesn't seem to be one place like windows registry classes subclass or the file associations application where you can set the application to open a file of certain extension in Mac OS X.

If you select one file and click open with and select an App, it's associated to open that file only even if you select "Always open with". It doesn't set the open with app association for all files with that extension.

Easiest way (or is it the only way?) to do that seems to be this way:
Open File Info of a file of that extension. For e.g., to set all .sh to open in macvim, select any .sh file in Finder. Then Click Command I or right click -> File Info.
In the Open With section, select the app to open the file with
And importantly select the option "Change All". That's it - This should do.

Quick Calc on Mac

1. Click on Apps icon - Select calculator Or open spotlight, type calculator and select the first option to launch calculator. Type in your numbers and operators to get the result, seems to be the most used one. 
2. You can also use Dashboard (by pressing F4) and calculator should be there by default.
3. BUt the easiest of them if your data isn't very complex is just open spotlight (cmd-space) and type in your data there... For e.g., 3^4*2 and the first result is your answer. :)