Translate colors
Go from html (hex) colors to argb and vice versa.
Pencil Set
High-quality mechanical pencils in colors ranging from blue to green to red. Okay, if that didn't leave you scratching your head, wondering whether my site got hacked, let me throw in the fact that they're all free. :p
Anyhow: the pencils in question are Photoshop-tinkering (via the way of a tutorial) and are made available for download for those who don't want to walk through the whole exercise.
Outlook Sucks, GMail Sucks++ (With a bit of Word Thrown In)
To send an executable attachment in Outlook, zip it up. To send an executable attachment in GMail, change the extension to something innocent-looking.
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Quick Mac Tip: Tab to a Button
The most frustrating aspect of using my Mac was having to click a button instead of tabbing over to it. At last, I finally found a solution!
Go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts. In the bottom right corner, there's a radio button saying "All controls": select it.
And that's it! You can now tab your way to buttons and drop down lists!
Let me end this by saying that having tab cover text boxes only is possibly the single stupidest option to be turned on by default.
One Folder to rule them all
How to recursively copy files from a source directory to a destination directory. Useful when the folders you want to peruse are hidden under, say, thirty inner folders.
T newObject = new T();
How to easily create new "T-typed objects" in your generic classes.