Monthly Archives: September 2008

Turning off win xp master volume beep sound

Aren’t you annoyed by the beep that is so loud? I got pretty frustrated after trying to look for disablement under volume control preferences. Nothing there. Also turning off all sound notifications at control panel (including Exclamation sound) didn’t help. Still nothing, just one aloud beep. Windows XP Volume Control   Here’s the quickest way [...]

Usability of the week: MS Project 2007 search dialog

How to search for all tasks in MS Project file? You can’t. By default MS Project is searching for only expanded tasks. So it is obvious to expect search dialog to have checkbox for all-nodes search. But looks like there is no such checkbox so you always have to expand. Instead of the checkbox the [...]

Refreshing eclipse workspace with ant script

Did you knew that if you have ant build.xml in eclipse Ant view then you can refresh your eclipse workspace simply using: <eclipse.convertPath filesystempath=”${basedir}” property=”resource.basedir”/> <eclipse.refreshLocal resource=”${resource.basedir}” depth=”one”/> ? Very handy for build scripts to make sure eclipse resources are in sync after the build. Thanks to Roland for the tip!