Tag: Code

Searching for Program Source Code

April 27, 2007 by Jason

Students at the University of California Irvine are working on some new technology for understanding and categorizing source code. They’re using it to power two projects, a source code visualization tool and a source code search engine. You can check it out at: sourcerer.ics.uci.edu – They’re just getting started, but click on the submenu items under the “Fingerprints” tab to get an idea of the heuristics they’re looking into (control structures, attributes, and micro-patterns). Read More»

How to Clear the Recently Run Programs List

April 14, 2007 by Jason

If you’re willing to clear the Recent Documents list, too, there’s a nice, easy way to clear the list. Right-click the taskbar and choose Properties. Click the Start menu tab and click the Customize button next to whichever Start menu option is active. If you use the Classic Start menu, simply click the Clear button. If you use the Microsoft Windows XP Start menu, click the Advanced tab and then click the Clear List button. (Yes, I know it doesn’t say that it also clears the Run list, but it does.) Now just click Cancel, Cancel—you’re not actually changing any settings.

If you need to automate the cleanup process, or if you must clear the Run list while leaving Recent Documents intact, you can do it with a Registry script. Launch Notepad and enter these two lines: Read More»

Add “Open with Notepad” to right-click context menu

February 26, 2007 by Jason

Do you use notepad very frequently to open all types of text files? This quick tweak will add “Open with Notepad” to all of your file context menus. Whenever you right click on a file, you will have the option to open it in Notepad.

Copy and paste the code below into Notepad. Then save it as a .reg file and import it by clicking on it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Notepad]
@=”"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Notepad\command]
@=”notepad.exe %1″

Fine tune ClearType Settings

February 26, 2007 by Jason

Here are two quick reg hacks for customizing the appearance of ClearType screen font smoothing:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
FontSmoothingOrientation = 1, 2 or 3
FontSmoothingGamma = Between 1000 to 2000

FontSmoothingGamma

This setting basically adjusts the brightness. The higher you go the brighter. Read More»

CheatBook – January 2007

February 12, 2007 by Jason

cheatbook

A Cheat-Code Tracker with Hints for several popular PC Action and Adventure Games.
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