Stuff that might be nice to have

Terra Nova Superlight Voyager 2009
http://www.uttingsoutdoors.co.uk/ £279

ThermaRest
Original £67 or Traillight £30

Headlamp
One with red leds for efficient night time Navigation

Camera gear
Canon EF 24mm f1.4L USM II
Review, Review, Buy
Canon EF 70-200 f4L IS USM
Review, Review, Buy

Import flickr photos into Facebook

Just found this application [1] for facebook, which is very useful if you mainly post pictures to flickr.

[1] http://www.keebler.net/flickr2facebook/

You Have to authorise the appliaction in face book, getting to this page was a little tricky and cant remember how I did it. But once it is done you just add an link to your shortcuts and when ever you find a flickr image you want in a facebook album just click the link and it will upload it to the album of your choice.

Create a link to your facebook profile

How Do I link to my facebook profile page was a question I often asked myself. It is actually quite straight forward. You just need to know your facebook id number. To find your facbook.com id number login then select the link which is just your real name left of 'settings' and 'log out'. This should take you to some thion like http://www.facebook.com/profile.php#/profile.php?id=604686891&ref=name

Shorten this to

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=604686891

and start telling people. you need to login to see it. not sure what happens if you dont have permission to see it. and I dont know any one who is on facbook and does not already have me added as a friend so can not test it. Can some try this out and leave a comment as to what happens if you click the link and login.

There is lso links to make a face bookbadge which for me creates a link to this page:
http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Morgan-Prior/604686891

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();
      }
   }