Firefox Tips and Tricks April 1, 2008
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i have use firefox as my primary web browser. i use some shortcut to fasten my browsing activities…
here are some tips and tricks, maybe can be useful for all of you :
- type an address and press ctrl + enter will automatically add www. and .com to the web address
- type an address and press shift + enter will automaticaly add www. and .net to the web address
- type an address and press ctrl + shift + enter will automaticall add www. and .org to the web address
- press ctrl + T will open a new tab
- press ctrl + shift + T will reopen last closed tab
- press ctrl + [1-9] to shift between tabs
- press alt + scroll mouse up and down to scrolling page line by line.
- press space bar to page down
- press shift + space bar to page up
- press ctrl + scroll up / down ot press ctrl + +/- to resize font
- drag a hyperlink to the new tab icon to open the link in a new tab
- drag highlighted word to the search bar to bring you to the Google search result page
- drag the highlighted word to the address bar + Enter to perform a Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” search
Hidden Gmail Function March 31, 2008
Posted by tommywahyudi in Computers, General.2 comments
are you using gmail as your email provider ? do you know this hidden tricks ? 
- Append a plus (“+”) sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, if your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com.
- Insert one or several dots (“.”) anywhere in your email address. Gmail doesn’t recognize periods as characters in addresses — we just ignore them. For example, you could tell people your address was hikingfan@gmail.com, hiking.fan@gmail.com or hi.kin.g.fan@gmail.com.
i really love the first trick, it allow me to identify all incoming emails from groups / certain email simply by define a meaningful name after the + sign when i register and then create rule based on the name after + sign. as example : i want to join a .net groups, so this what would i do :
- I register my email, i can choose myemail+net@gmail.com. the email itself will still be received in your myemail@gmail.com, no need to create a new name. don’t worry
- create a folder to store the email, example : .net
- create a filter that will move every email that is sent to myemail+net@gmail.com to a predefined folder (.net).
voila…now i can organize my email better. thanks google…
*you can read the full article here
Lenovo Keyboard Layout March 3, 2008
Posted by tommywahyudi in Code, General.add a comment
i use my friend laptop to bug fixing his code. it is lenovo…
i start to put my hand in the keyboard and type something. i press page up, page down, arrows key and then start to realize there is something wrong with lenovo keyboard….
IT IS HARD TO DO TEXT HIGHLIGHTING / BLOCKING WITH LENOVO
instead of using CTRL – SHIFT – END / ARROW, you should press CTRL – SHIFT – FN – END / ARROW…??? i look the layout again and start to feel very uncomfortable with the layout. this is a non programmer keyboard layout…!!! so instead , i use mouse to do text blocking / highlighting. from what i saw, lenovo trying to save some spaces in the keyboard to add speaker at the side of the keyboard, but the result was very annoying. i would say NO to use lenovo for programming…
ooo i really love my Compaq….
Employee Type March 3, 2008
Posted by tommywahyudi in General.Tags: employee type
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I just read SWA magazine about best CEO. umm my CEO is there sometimes i wonder how they works when they are on my current level, impossible they become CEO without start everything from zero rights ?
well i read the magazine page to page and suddenly i saw one interesting article. it discuss about type of employees. here is the diagram :
and the explanations :
- Truly Loyal : somehow the people in this category feels connected to the company. so they won’t leave for a long period of time
- Accessible : they don’t look for new job for now but if a better opportunity coming they will grab it. of course after deep analysis about the opportunity and the risk
- Trapped : this type don’t have a choice to move although they don’t like the job. they cannot move either because lack of skill, under certain contract that makes them have to stay or other reason
- High Risk : peoples in this type are actively looking for new job
According to the types above, i would say that i am the Accessible type.. god don’t let me be the trapped one, umm but if they offer a very good remuneration, i don’t mind to be trapped…
how about you ?
Who Am I ? March 1, 2008
Posted by tommywahyudi in General, Telecommunication.1 comment so far
hi..my name is tommy wahyudi. i work for a telecommunication company in indonesia as a sales automation supervisor. as you can see, sales ? yeah i automate everything related to system in sales.
o really ? umm basically not, i just gave an idea, write a business requirements and then pass it to IT…a simple life isn’t it ? nahh…you’re wrong, it is as complicated as write a program because you’re dealing with people with no IT background and one zombie mindset :
SELL…SELL…SELL…
and then there you go, ask them to use your system. it really hard part unless you can convince them that it will useful for them. so basically a typical of sales person when dealing with system are :
- if it isn’t easy to use, sales people won’t use it
- if it’s easy to use, but sales people aren’t getting value, they won’t use it
hard isn’t it ? beside above responsibilty, i also did a little code. i use C#, Nhibernate, SubSonic, Sharepoint, Reporting Service, Analysis Service, Sql Server 2005, Office 2007. if i code then i prefer a simple one, the one that use code generator or template. why ? because like what i say before…
I hate coding…but i live from it…
so in this blog you’ll find how to deal with sales people and what technology that they need, especially in telecommunication industry…
