Change or Increase font size on Eclipse IDE

2010

May

Eclipse

I have a Sony Vaio CW Series laptop, and it supports a high resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels in a small 14 inch screen. The pros of this resolution is to have more screen space for editors or IDEs such as Eclipse. The bad part is you have to strain too much to read whatever is on the screen which is bad for your eyes.

So in-order to ease your strain, increase the font size on Eclipse editors.
To increase font size,

Open Eclipse.
Goto Window > Preferences

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Django SocialAuth Fix Google Email Open id attribute exchange

2010

Apr

Django Social auth is a package that enables login to your django website with Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Twitter. Allowing authentication from 3rd party websites which supports open authentication helps users easy to register to your website without filling too much details. Easier signup makes more registrations and helps you cover your django web hosting charges Grinning . The package is managed at github here, but it does not have a stable release yet.

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Boot Time comparison Sony Vaio CW series VPCCW26FG versus E series VPCEB16FG

2010

Apr

Sony Vaio

This video compares boot time of two sony vaio laptops. Sony Vaio E series versus the Sony Vaio CW series (VPCCW26FG vs VPCEB16FG).

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Sony Vaio Battery Care utility Download

2010

Apr

Sony Vaio Battery Care Function utility is a sony vaio utility which helps improve battery performance by limiting maximum capacity to 80% of the full capacity.

Read more about Sony Vaio Battery care function in How to Enable Battery care function on Sony Vaio to improve Battery life.

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How to Enable/Disable Battery care function on Sony Vaio to improve Battery life.

2010

Apr

Sony Vaio Battery care function increases your battery life time and battery back up in the long run by limiting the max capacity of the battery to 80% or 50%. This means the battery would only be charged to 80% in each charge-discharge cycle. The backup would be lower in the beginning, but in the long run average battery backup would be more. Thus the battery capacity is not utilized fully.

Battery life will be about 80% of the one of the fully charged battery, however, this mode prevents battery degradation and is more effective if you usually use the computer with battery power.

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Power plans missing - Restore power plans on Windows 7

2010

Apr

Windows

Power saver plan on Windows helps you to give longer battery backup by reducing performance of certain hardware components like processor, graphics card, wireless network card etc and turning off devices which are not used. One sudden day my power saver option went missing on my sony vaio running Windows 7. Since the battery backup is drastically reduced when the power saver option is missing, I had to desperately find a fix and here it is :

The default power plans available in Windows are :

Power Saver
Balanced
High Performance

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How to change root admin user password in Drupal ?

2010

Apr

drupal

In order to reset the root or superadmin password on a drupal system, login into the database by looking at the settings.php. You can use phpMyAdmin or any other MySQL utilities like SQLYog, or MySQL command line.

Run the following query to reset the password.

UPDATE users SET pass = MD5('password') WHERE uid = 1

The user id of administrator is always 1.
Password field in drupal is stored as MD5 of the actual string password. So running the above query would set your password as password of the superadmin user.