Microsoft Word Changing Case

Changing the case of text in Microsoft Word is no longer done in the fomatting pane. It has its own 'Change Case' menu item.

Select/Highlight text then select Format -> Change Case



Select from these 5 options. Sentences case is useful if you accidentally typed everything upper case

Firefox shorcuts Tips and Tricks

If you use Subversion or other web based tools you might have cgi scripts/web pages that take the url of another page as an argument, this is a nice trick for easily entering the the new page with the other url as a refference.

Create a new shortcut in firefox.
Right click and select properties.
Set Name to What ever you would like.
Set Location to be:
javascript:location = 'http://newpage.com/new.php?url='+escape(location); void 0

goto google.com then select your new shortcut then you will load http://newpage.com/new.php?url=google.com

Tip Originated from here:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/kws.htm#url

Convert sections of Web pages to images

If you find a need to convert a web page into an image, say saving a section of a google map, Abduction is a good plugin for Firefox 3.

Once installed, just right click on the web page choose 'Save Page As Image'. A preview window then opens which lets you select which part gets included in the image, where and what image format.

Java delete non-empty folders

The Java File.delete(); method only works on empty folders to delete a folder and its contents recursivly do some thing like:

   public static void recDelete(File folder) {
      if(folder.exists()) {
       if(folder.isDirectory()) {
        File[] files = folder.listFiles();
           for(int i=0; i < files.length; i++) {
              File curFile = files[i];
              // call to delete the current file/folder
              recDelete(curFile);
            }    
       }
       //If a folder Deleted all contents
       //If a File Jump straight here
       folder.delete();
      }
   }