Render your Windows font differently – be like Mac

Have you ever feel envious with Mac OS user because of the way Mac OS renders font ?OK, I admitted I did. But no more – with the help of these things:

GDI++ [download]

Lucida Grande font [download]

Installation:
- Download these 2 files above.
- Extract the GDI++ into your Program menu folder, then put a shortcut of Gditray.exe into Startup folder
- Extract and copy the 2 Lucida Grande fonts into C:\Windows\Fonts
- Execute the .reg file

Usage:
After that, you will see GDI++ icon in the task bar. Click Use preferences –> Bold / Medium / Light.
Click Enable

Results:

This is what looks like with GDI enabled:

And GDI disabled:

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Team Explorer 2008 to connect to TFS 2010

 

If you want to use Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Team Explorer 2008 to connect to a TFS 2010 server, you will probably hit the error while trying to add the server. It happen even when you install patch KB974558 (Team Explorer 2008 SP1 forward compatibility patch for TFS 2010)

The Team Explorer 2008 RTM build is 9.0.21022.8. If you install Visual Studio 2008 SP1 before installing Team Explorer, then you’ll have VS 2008 SP1 with Team Explorer RTM which does not work well together.

Figure 1 : this Team Explorer build does not work well with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and TFS 2010

So the fast solution is to run the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 again. It will look for the Team Explorer version and update to SP1. After installation complete, we should see this:

Figure 2: Now the Team Explorer is patched to SP1 build : 9.0.30729.1, this version works with TFS 2010.

How to type Vietnamese on iPhone–Làm thế nào để gõ tiếng Việt trên iPhone

 

Steps:

1. Go to settings –> General

2. Go to Keyboard

3. Go to International Keyboards


4. Click Add New Keyboard

5. Scroll to the end, select “Vietnamese”

6. Review


7. Click on the globe icon to start typing in Vietnamese

Start multiple instance of Internet Explorer with separate sessions vs. Private Mode

IE instance with multiple sessions

For developers who work daily with IE, we all know the pain of close all Internet Explore instance and open a new window to have a fresh new session with clean data.

It is because of the default behavior in IE is using merged session.
No more pain my friends. This parameter come to rescue: –nomerge

So if you start your Internet Explore like this, you will be able to test various sessions.

What happen behind the scene:

 

For faster access, I edit the shortcut for Internet Explorer to be like:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" –nomerge

Happy testing & debugging !

How to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on VMWare 7

I was searching all across the net to find the solution and here it is:

http://bobhood.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/welcome-to-snow-leopard-mac-os-x-10-6-and-vmware-workstation-7/

This tutorial also include VMware tool installation guide to improve performance. Thanks to bobhood for the excellent tutorial.

If any of you want to customize ISO package or even just the Vmware 7 image for Snow Leopard, drop me a comment.

Happy testing Mac OS X!

PS: Here is another excellent tutorial:
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-install-os-x-snow-leopard-in-vmware-windows-7-9140301/