17 Oct 2006

Storing & Managing Yours Passwords

No Comments Utilities

Are you dealing with hundred of passwords scattered around different places? And so, are you managing endless lists of passwords right from your windows logon, two official email accounts, five personal email accounts, and six ftp passwords to ten gaming forums passwords, and fifteen programming web sites passwords?? Then its time to install KeePass and let it stores and manages your passwords in single place. With that, what you just need to remember is only one master password to access these hundreds of stored passwords.

KeePass Main Window

KeePass stores passwords in single encrypted file which means you can easily move your password database from one machine to another.

It can even suggest you strong random password based on provided number of characters and other consideration like options to include special characters, having combination of lower and upper characters in password etc.

Random Password

And when you want to use password, just double click (or press Ctrl+C or right click on any field and click “Copy Password To Clipboard”) on list item to copy password into Windows clipboard. No need to reveal to provide it in your web page. And as you pasted your copied password, it will automatically remove copied password from your clipboard. Further, it you didn’t paste your copied password within specified time then KeePass will automatically remove copied password from clipboard.

KeePass Options

That’s a whole lot of features to manage your passwords. Check it out!

Application URL : http://keepass.sourceforge.net
Download URL : KeePass-1.06-Setup.exe

17 Jun 2006

Favlets – Must have tools for ASP.NET developers

No Comments ASP.NET, Web Development

Favlets are actually a small JavaScript code prefixed with “javascript:” which are store as URL in hyper link. Interesting thing about Favlets is that you can directly run this script from address bar of your browser and so you can save this script as URL and store it in your Favorites folder, and that’s why these Javascript code is called Favlets.

The beauty of Favlets is that it can access any part of page currently open in your browser. To elaborate that, it means that now you can get any element of existing open page in some variable and then you can use that variable to display its property or to modify its property.

How to install Favlets?
Well, it’s a simple as book marking this page to your favorites. Simply drag any Favlets link in your Link or Favorites folder. Now open any web page in browser and click the Favlets.

Here is the small tutorial on installing Favlets in your browser:
How to use favlets
Bookmarklets – Browser Power
About Bookmarklets

Here is the list of Favlets from my web development tool box:
Source: Slime
View Tables – Creates a thin blue border around every <table> element on the page, and a thin green one around table cells. Useful for figuring out old table layouts.

View Divs – Creates a thin red border around every <div> element on the page. Often useful to see how the browser is handling CSS.

Execute JavaScript Code – The ultimate favelet. Allows you to execute any JavaScript code that you want to.

Display Properties of Object – Displays all of the properties of a given object (for example, document.body, window.navigator, or document.getElementById(‘myelem’)). If there are too many properties to display on separate lines, they are displayed on a single line and separated with “|||.” Exact result is browser-dependant. Useful for debugging scripts.

Source: Favlets
Elements Inspector – Shows the properties of any HTML element on
mouseover. “ESC” key turns the favlet off.

Source: W3C
Validate This Page – This is the basic “Validate This Page” Favelet. It simply submits the URL for the currently viewed page to the Validator for processing. Results appear in the same window.

Source: Squarefree
Read Cookie for Site – Shows cookies stored by the page you’re viewing.

Some Other Links:
About Bookmarklets
Page Data bookmarklets
Blog Remote Posting Bookmarklet
Bookmarklets
Developer Bookmarklets
Bookmarklets
Bookmarklets and other useful things for IE’s Links bar

27 May 2006

Snippet Compiler

No Comments .NET Tools, C#

Here is a useful .NET utility if you only want to test 8 line code and without getting involve in launching that bulky VS.NET, and then creating project etc.

URL: Snippet Compiler
Download: 2.0.8.3 for .NET 2.0 | 2.0.7.1 for .NET 1.1

Some of the interesting features I like in Snippet Compiler:
> It minimize to the system tray of task bar.
> It can also builds WinForm EXEs, console EXEs or DLLs.
> You can compile multiple C#, VB.NET ASP.NET code.
> It can be used to store templates library as well.
> IntelliSense for static members and method
> You can also export your snippet in HTML format which can be post in your blog.

Snippet Compiler Screenshot