Dec 07 2008

Color customization in CodeRush XPress

Category: Programming, tools — Maciek Talaska @ 8:30 pm

A while ago DevExpress introduced a new, totally free product for developers using Visual Studio – CodeRush XPress. I found it quite helpful, so it became one of the plugins I am using during my day to day developer activities. However, I was looking for possibility to change default colors (I have black background in my VS environment, so not all the colors are easy to notice), and couldn’t find one. Recently, I have found the solution on DevExpress site. It’s a pity, that one must be aware of this magic key combination, instead of being able to configure plugin behaviour from VS options menu. Anyway, after pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+O (easy to remember, right? all the modifier keys and ‘O’ as in Options ;) you will see an option dialog, with dozen of things to change (or better: ‘personalize’):

CodeRush XPress' option dialog.

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Feb 09 2008

GMail coloured labels hack

Category: web services — Maciek Talaska @ 1:00 am
A while ago Google announced that their GMail accounts offer label coloring (you may define color for every label you’ve created). I checked it immediately after I had heard about it. It worked, and I really like this feature. But some of my friends were unable to use it. Their GMail just did not have any label-palete that is used to define labels colors. The thing just drove me crazy. I did not know what was the reason of such a behaviour of Google’s mail service. I thought that it takes time to migrate all account, but… I just found a solution ;) It appears that you have to change language of your GMail account into English-US. I’ve tried it and it works! So… if you would like to use coloured labels – try to set language into ‘English-US’. It should work for you (unless your account is not migrated… ;)

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