Year: 2010

If you have used Windows 7, then you should have noticed that if you close an application window which is supposed to run in the system tray until you exit the program, the program stays in taskbar. For example if you close Skype instead of quitting it, it continues to run both in System Tray and Taskbar. In earlier versions of Windows, the program used to run in the tray only. There’s a quick fix to it – Make the program run in compatibility mood 🙂

Right click on a program shortcut and go to properties. Go to the Compatibility tab and choose Windows XP Service Pack 3. Now hit the ok button. You’re done 🙂

Now you can send Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IncrediMail or any other program to system tray from the taskbar 🙂

I develop web applications with PHP and use Subversion for code versioning. I also use SVN to auto deploy my application to the staging server. I use Tortoise SVN GUI for my day to day subversion needs. Today while checking the latest development version of the Netbeans IDE for PHP, I installed it’s built in SVN plugin from Tools > Plugin and gave the subversion mechanism a try! It’s fantastic. I’m not going to compare it with Tortoise SVN but it’s more comfortable to have a SVN client integrated into the IDE. Saves time and efforts while maximizing productivity. I’m planning to thoroughly try it and if it has no drawbacks, I’m gonna use it for my SVN needs 🙂

Here’s a screen shot:

Let’s jump into some real life scenarios and see how fast your reactions are! 😀 Here’s a flash game for you. After clicking “Go”, you get a button with a dart icon. Whenever a sheep starts running to free itself, hit a dart to tranquilize it. It’s simple! But control your excitement, if you shoot a dart alarmingly when a sheep is not actually running, you get penalized 🙂

Have fun and share it if you like it! 😀