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	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Keep your secrets! Protect your privacy! Control all SMS in your own hands!</title>
		<link>http://www.techrelax.com/keep-your-secrets-protect-your-privacy-control-all-sms-in-your-own-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Free Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[MumSMS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MumSMS+ for S60 provides powerful, confidential and whole protection for your mobile phone messages, not only the SMSs,but also MMSs, even if E-Mail, Bluetooth/Infrared messages, and other unknown-type messages!
Have you ever had the bad experience that your confidential SMS/MMS was seen by unwanted eyes? Are you still worring about keeping you secret SMS/MMS in your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.techrelax.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/4_mumok.jpg" title="4_mumok.jpg"></a><a rel="attachment wp-att-228" href="http://www.techrelax.com/keep-your-secrets-protect-your-privacy-control-all-sms-in-your-own-hands/228/" title="4_mumok.jpg"></a><a rel="attachment wp-att-228" href="http://www.techrelax.com/keep-your-secrets-protect-your-privacy-control-all-sms-in-your-own-hands/228/" title="4_mumok.jpg"></a><a rel="attachment wp-att-228" href="http://www.techrelax.com/keep-your-secrets-protect-your-privacy-control-all-sms-in-your-own-hands/228/" title="4_mumok.jpg"></a>MumSMS+ for S60 provides powerful, confidential and whole protection for your mobile phone messages, not only the SMSs,but also MMSs, even if E-Mail, Bluetooth/Infrared messages, and other unknown-type messages!<br />
Have you ever had the bad experience that your confidential SMS/MMS was seen by unwanted eyes? Are you still worring about keeping you secret SMS/MMS in your mobile phone? Stop all your anxieties now!</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mneBieslR-0/SL_q1HwkY1I/AAAAAAAAAVE/YNF4ISMRw0k/s320/4_mumOK.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: hand; text-align: center" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242166689619272530" /><br />
MumSMS+ is a smart software which offers you an easy way to protect your private and confidential messages in your mobile phone. All your sensitive SMS/MMS including sent and received messages can be hidden automatically by choosing a proper profile. All your hidden messages are kept in good order and can be read only with right password.<br />
MumSMS+ feature Summary:<br />
1. A new, powerful, secure and easy-to-use messages managing UI(user interface).<br />
2. Protect (Hide) received messages(SMS/MMS) automatically if user defined.<br />
3. Protect (Hide) sent messages(SMS/MMS) automatically if user defined.<br />
4. Protect (Hide) messages(SMS/MMS) in the draft folder automatically if user defined.<br />
5. Supported Hide/Show message of any folder by handy choice in message manager.<br />
6. Unlimited number of user-defined profiles which can be switched at will.<br />
7. Supported two type of profiles: black lists (hide all message on list) and white lists (hide all messages except what are on the list)<br />
8. Any telephone no./contact person/prefix of telephone no. can be added added to the list of profiles.<br />
And much more&#8230;<br />
Keep your private messages private with MumSMS.</p>
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		<title>Migo PC BackUp</title>
		<link>http://www.techrelax.com/migo-pc-backup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shareware]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[document backup]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PC BackUp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody knows that it is smart to backup important files. With Migo PC Backup, Migo Software&#8217;s smart and powerful backup software, protection is easy to setup so that your backups happen automatically.
Migo PC BackUp takes the hassle out of making backups, so that you won&#8217;t have to remember when to do it, or struggle to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">Everybody knows that it is smart to backup important files. With Migo PC Backup, Migo Software&#8217;s smart and powerful backup software, protection is easy to setup so that your backups happen automatically.</p>
<p align="justify">Migo PC BackUp takes the hassle out of making backups, so that you won&#8217;t have to remember when to do it, or struggle to replace a missing or damaged file. You just select your options and the frequency it backs up, and are rest assured that your valuable files are protected. Migo PC BackUp is the ideal solution for securing your photo memories, family movies, and important documents.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Product Benefits at a Glance<br />
</strong>1. Comprehensive system backup and disaster recovery software<br />
2. Perfect for desktop, laptop and network backup at your home or small business<br />
3. Backup to Hard Drives, CD-R/RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, USB Drives, Tape Drives, and more<br />
Built in scheduler makes setting up automatic backups quick and easy<br />
4. Wizards provide simple step-by-step instructions to backup an entire system or just a few files<br />
5. Backup entire system, selected files or folders, or just &#8220;new and changed&#8221; files<br />
Spans backups across multiple pieces of media and use compression to consume less backup media<br />
6. Powerful Disaster Recovery enables the recovery of applications and operating system in the event of hard drive failure</p>
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		<title>Ability Office Home Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.techrelax.com/ability-office-home-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shareware]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MS Office]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Create and edit your documents without having Microsoft Office installed. Low cost alternative to MS Office with compatibility for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, and Paint. Each module provides transparency with MS module such that it can read and save .doc, and .xls formats.
Graphics module is superior to MS Paint and is more like Adobe&#8217;s Photshop. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">Create and edit your documents without having Microsoft Office installed. Low cost alternative to MS Office with compatibility for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, and Paint. Each module provides transparency with MS module such that it can read and save .doc, and .xls formats.</p>
<p align="justify">Graphics module is superior to MS Paint and is more like Adobe&#8217;s Photshop. Each product comes with 2 licenses for Personal use (allows installation on a Desktop and a Laptop). Free and unlimited email support. Ability Office products have a small footprint and use a minimum amount of computer resources.</p>
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		<title>Passcape Outlook Express Password Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.techrelax.com/passcape-outlook-express-password-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Free Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[passcape outlook express]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[password recovery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Passcape Outlook Express Password Recovery is a comprehensive solution for recovering all types of Outlook Express saved passwords:
- SMTP
- POP3
- IMAP
- NNTP
- HTTPMAIL
- LDAP
- Identity passwords.
Features
- An easy and user-friendly wizard interface;
- Preventing an unauthorized program execution;
- Recovering Outlook passwords containing non-english characters;
- Export passwords to text, HTML or Excel file;
- All passwords are recovered [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">Passcape Outlook Express Password Recovery is a comprehensive solution for recovering all types of Outlook Express saved passwords:<br />
- SMTP<br />
- POP3<br />
- IMAP<br />
- NNTP<br />
- HTTPMAIL<br />
- LDAP<br />
- Identity passwords.</p>
<p>Features<br />
- An easy and user-friendly wizard interface;<br />
- Preventing an unauthorized program execution;<br />
- Recovering Outlook passwords containing non-english characters;<br />
- Export passwords to text, HTML or Excel file;<br />
- All passwords are recovered instantly.</p>
<p>You can choose between two recovery modes: automatic (decrypt passwords of the current user account) and manual (decrypt passwords directly from Windows registry files). All Outlook Express account passwords are stored in Windows registry. But after Windows re-installation all your passwords may be lost. POEPR can help you to recover these passwords directly from the registry file of your old account.</p>
<p>For more information please visit Passcape home page http://www.passcape.com</p>
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		<title>TaskDialog.NET</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[TechNews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[.Net]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Windows Vista introduced a new standard dialog box, called task dialog, to present choices in a clear and consistent way, with a standardized look and layout to replace the old message box which has often been used to create dialog boxes that are difficult to understand and use.
There are no standard classes in .NET [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">Microsoft Windows Vista introduced a new standard dialog box, called task dialog, to present choices in a clear and consistent way, with a standardized look and layout to replace the old message box which has often been used to create dialog boxes that are difficult to understand and use.</p>
<p align="justify">There are no standard classes in .NET framework to work with task dialogs and also there&#8217;s no alternative what to do when an application is run on operating system other than Windows Vista. The TaskDialog.NET component provides classes. NET developers can use to add Vista-style task dialogs to their .NET applications that will work on any platform supported by the .NET Framework. Developers simply use TaskDialog class in their code to construct task dialogs as needed and when showing the task dialog the TaskDialog.NET will either use native task dialog API if available (on Windows Vista) or use standard .NET classes to construct identical task dialog on other operating systems.</p>
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		<title>KingSoft Internet Security 9 Subscription free for 180 Days</title>
		<link>http://www.techrelax.com/kingsoft-internet-security-9-subscription-free-for-180-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Free Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Antivirus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kingsoft Internet Security(KIS)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kingsoft Internet Security 9 is a anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall all-in-one security protection and detection system tools for Windows Vista and Windows XP PC. Like Rising AntiVirus, Kingsoft Internet Security 9 is another product from Chinese company, which also develops Kingsoft Office.
Kingsoft Internet Security 9 suite has already been accredited by VB100 and Checkmark, which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">Kingsoft Internet Security 9 is a anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall all-in-one security protection and detection system tools for Windows Vista and Windows XP PC. Like Rising AntiVirus, Kingsoft Internet Security 9 is another product from Chinese company, which also develops Kingsoft Office.</p>
<p align="justify">Kingsoft Internet Security 9 suite has already been accredited by VB100 and Checkmark, which proven the application’s ability to provide protection and removal of malicious threats. It’s popularly known as DuBa in China, with latest version called Kingsoft (DuBa) Internet Security 2008. DuBa has been available in China and Japan for a while, but only recently the English version is made available to the world at large, and is named as KIS 9 (not Kaspersky Internet Security though).</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.techrelax.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/kingsoft-internet-security-468x355.jpg" title="kingsoft-internet-security-468x355.jpg"><img src="http://www.techrelax.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/kingsoft-internet-security-468x355.jpg" alt="kingsoft-internet-security-468x355.jpg" /></a></p>
<p align="justify">Kingsoft Internet Security 9 features multiple scanning engines for viruses, malware, spyware, Trojans, worms and rootkits, viral signature delivery, boot clean, and realtime file safety checks against whitelists in Trusted Authenticity Servers assist in providing a comprehensive level of virus and spyware detection ensuring system including private information is protected against even the latest Internet threats.</p>
<p>Kingsoft Internet Security 9 is available for free download with generous 180 days or 6 months free unrestricted usage period with unlimited update and support services, without the need for any registration, e-mail submission, product key, serial number or anything else. Just download and install</p>
<p> <a href="http://kingsoftresearch.com/downloads/KIS_International_9_Online_ENG_RTM_20080613.EXE" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://kingsoftresearch.com/downloads/KIS_International_9_Online_ENG_RTM_20080613.EXE');">KIS_International_9_Online_ENG_RTM_20080613.EXE</a>.</p>
<p>Kingsoft Internet Security 9 supports Windows Vista, XP, 2000, 98, Me, and it’s small in size and will not slow down PC, for those who think that most modern anti-virus software is bloated and consumed too much system resources.</p>
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		<title>MySpace joins OpenID coalition to share log-ins</title>
		<link>http://www.techrelax.com/myspace-joins-openid-coalition-to-share-log-ins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The online hangout MySpace took another step Tuesday in cooperating with rival Internet services, joining a coalition that allows people to use the same accounts and passwords across the Web.
The OpenID coalition now includes Time Warner Inc.&#8217;s AOL, Google Inc.&#8217;s Blogger, Yahoo Inc. and blogging services Vox, WordPress, LiveJournal. Users with a supported account can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify"><img border="0" align="left" width="1" src="http://www.techrelax.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/f8example1-thumb.gif" alt="f8example1-thumb.gif" height="1" />The online hangout MySpace took another step Tuesday in cooperating with rival Internet services, joining a coalition that allows people to use the same accounts and passwords across the Web.</p>
<p align="justify">The OpenID coalition now includes Time Warner Inc.&#8217;s AOL, Google Inc.&#8217;s Blogger, Yahoo Inc. and blogging services Vox, WordPress, LiveJournal. Users with a supported account can activate it for use at other sites accepting OpenID; this way they won&#8217;t have to keep creating new accounts and remembering passwords.</p>
<p align="justify">Because MySpace users now log on with their e-mail addresses, MySpace users wishing to log on at another OpenID site will use their unique Web address &#8212; either an assigned number or a name chosen by the user. MySpace did not say whether it will be accepting OpenID accounts from elsewhere in lieu of its normal registration.</p>
<p align="justify">Facebook, the No. 2 online hangout behind News Corp.&#8217;s MySpace, has yet to announce OpenID support. Typically, Facebook has favored developing its own systems, while MySpace has been apt to join coalitions. MySpace also is a member of OpenSocial, a Google-initiated platform for sharing applications across the Web.</p>
<p align="justify">MySpace also said Tuesday its users will be able to quickly share profile data with two additional partners, Flixster and Eventful. Yahoo Inc. and eBay Inc. are among the partners in the Data Availability program, which lets other sites incorporate MySpace profile information, averting the need for users to constantly create new profiles at each site.</p>
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		<title>Japanese browser maker takes on IE, Firefox</title>
		<link>http://www.techrelax.com/japanese-browser-maker-takes-on-ie-firefox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[japanese browser maker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sleipnir browser]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Japanese software company is stepping up international promotion of its Web browser in the hope of carving out a 5% share over the next few years of a market dominated by Internet Explorer and Firefox.
The Sleipnir browser is well-known among Japanese technophiles, many of whom value the high level of customization that the browser [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">A Japanese software company is stepping up international promotion of its Web browser in the hope of carving out a 5% share over the next few years of a market dominated by Internet Explorer and Firefox.</p>
<p align="justify">The Sleipnir browser is well-known among Japanese technophiles, many of whom value the high level of customization that the browser allows. At the center of this customization is the ability to select either the Trident or Gecko layout engines for each Web site visited. Trident was developed by Microsoft Corp. and is used in Internet Explorer while Gecko is used in Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox.</p>
<p align="justify">As any user who has changed Web browsers knows, some sites look different or offer different functionality depending on the browser in use. By clicking a small button in the bottom left of the browser and switching between Trident and Gecko, users can choose the best one for the particular site.</p>
<p align="justify">Fenrir Inc., which is based in Osaka, began development of the browser in 2005 and has been offering an English version alongside its main Japanese version for sometime but decided to step up promotion overseas after noticing demand rising for the browser from international users, said Yasuhiro Miki, director of Fenrir&#8217;s overseas marketing division.</p>
<p align="justify">&#8220;We&#8217;d like to focus on advanced users,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p align="justify">In the next couple of years, Fenrir hopes to dramatically grow its user base from the current roughly 100,000 users to around 17 million, Miki said. That corresponds to about 5% of the English-speaking Web user base, he said.</p>
<p align="justify">In Japan, the browser has a 9% market share, according to Fenrir. No independent data to verify that claim is available, but a recent survey of 3,003 computer programmers published by Nikkei ITpro put Sleipnir&#8217;s share at 6% among that group.</p>
<p align="justify">Initially, the focus is on the English-speaking market, but Fenrir has plans to look at other language versions, including Spanish and French.</p>
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		<title>Outlook Attachment Remover - frees up inbox disk space</title>
		<link>http://www.techrelax.com/outlook-attachment-remover-frees-up-inbox-disk-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Free Software]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Windows only with Outlook: Sick of bumping up against your employer&#8217;s tiny Exchange server space limit? The Outlook Attachment Remover can detach all those huge images and documents your co-workers insist on emailing around and free up space by offloading them to your hard drive.

The Attachment Remover is a free Outlook add-in that lets you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">Windows only with Outlook: Sick of bumping up against your employer&#8217;s tiny Exchange server space limit? The Outlook Attachment Remover can detach all those huge images and documents your co-workers insist on emailing around and free up space by offloading them to your hard drive.</p>
<p align="justify"><a href="http://www.techrelax.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/attachmentremover.png" title="attachmentremover.png"><img src="http://www.techrelax.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/attachmentremover.png" alt="attachmentremover.png" /></a></p>
<p align="justify">The Attachment Remover is a free Outlook add-in that lets you process a folder of your choosing, and specify which attachment file types and sizes you want to save to your hard drive (like only .PPT&#8217;s larger than 100KB, for example.) Great way to reduce disk usage fast without having to manually delete or archive Outlook messages. The Outlook Attachment Remover is freeware for Windows, donations requested.</p>
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		<title>Top 10 Tips For New Eclipse Users</title>
		<link>http://www.techrelax.com/top-10-tips-for-new-eclipse-users/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Computer Tips]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eclipse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Need to get up to speed fast with the Eclipse IDE? In this entry, I’m going to share my top 10 list of basic Eclipse tips. These are very simple tips, but I’ve noticed that for some reason many people using Eclipse for the first time end up learning these tips the hard way (through [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">Need to get up to speed fast with the Eclipse IDE? In this entry, I’m going to share my top 10 list of basic Eclipse tips. These are very simple tips, but I’ve noticed that for some reason many people using Eclipse for the first time end up learning these tips the hard way (through discovery). The following 10 tips should be known by anyone using Eclipse on a day to day basis. In future entries I’ll share some advanced tips - but first the basics.</p>
<p align="justify">1 <strong>Use Code Assist</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Code assist (also known as auto-complete) is the kind of feature that becomes almost completely automatic after a very short time. Most modern IDEs have a similar feature - for instance, Visual Studio calls it Intellisense.</p>
<p align="justify">The concept is simple - just press the code assist key combination (by default ctrl-space) and the IDE will either fill in where you’ve started typing or display a menu to allow you to choose an auto-completion from several possibilities.</p>
<p align="justify">This is the feature you will use the most in Eclipse. I just noticed that I can type ctrl-space without moving my fingers from the home position at all :).</p>
<p align="justify">2 <strong>Navigate Through Code By ctrl-Clicking</strong></p>
<p align="justify">This is another feature that you stop consciously thinking about once you’ve gotten in the habit. While editing, you can move to a field, method, or class by holding down the ctrl key and clicking on the identifier you’re interested in. This makes navigation dead simple.</p>
<p align="justify">When looking through unfamiliar code, this feature is great. If you are wondering what a class is, or what the implementation of a method looks like, it’s as easy as ctrl-clicking it.</p>
<p align="justify">3 <strong>Quickly Open Classes and Resources by Name</strong></p>
<p align="justify">There are two ways to open a class or resource in an editor: the slow way and the fast way :). Don’t use the slow way - there’s no good reason to.</p>
<p align="justify">To open a Java class, press ctrl-shift-T. This will display a dialog box that allows you to type in a class name. To open a non-Java resource (a .txt file for instance) use the ctrl-shift-R shortcut. These open boxes support wildcards, partial names, and even camel case names (try typing ctrl-shift-T, AIOOBE to see camel case search in action).</p>
<p align="justify">There is hardly ever a reason to use the Package Explorer view to manually pick out a class to open if you know its name.</p>
<p align="justify">4 <strong>Know the Keyboard Shortcuts</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Eclipse has extremely good keyboard shortcut support. Most of the common operations have an associated keyboard shortcut, and learning these keyboard shortcuts is the most effective productivity boost you can give your Eclipse experience.</p>
<p align="justify">There are too many keyboard shortcuts to enumerate them all here, and the previous tip already mentioned two of the most useful shortcuts. However, I will list the shortcuts I think are most useful:</p>
<p align="justify">ctrl-shift-G: searches for references to a highlighted class, method, field, or variable<br />
ctrl-shift-F4: closes all open editor windows<br />
ctrl-o: outline popup - very useful for quickly jumping to a method in a large class<br />
F4: shows the hierarchy viewer for a class (ctrl-T shows similar data in a popup version)<br />
ctrl-m: toggle maximize of the current editor or view<br />
ctrl-F11: run the last launched configuration</p>
<p align="justify">There’s even a keyboard shortcut you can press that will show you all available keyboard shortcuts in the current context: that’s ctrl-shift-L.</p>
<p align="justify">It’s worth noting that the keyboard shortcuts can be customized. However, I don’t recommend you do this. It makes pair programming and team collaboration harder because each machine may have a different set of keyboard shortcuts. The shortcuts Eclipse ships with are good defaults - I recommend leaving them that way.</p>
<p align="justify">5 <strong>Set the Heap Size</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Eclipse is a large, complex, Java-based IDE. It needs lots of memory to perform well. In fact, if you’re using Eclipse to do daily development, you should configure your machine so that Eclipse can use RAM in preference to any other processes.</p>
<p align="justify">When starting Eclipse, you should always specify a large maximum heap size. The default Eclipse uses is far too small for normal use. There are lots of ways to specify this when starting Eclipse (see Google). The easiest way is to use the -vmargs parameter with the Eclipse native launcher executable:</p>
<p align="justify">eclipse <other></other>-vmargs -Xmx1024M</p>
<p align="justify">That syntax will work only on Sun’s JVMs, by the way. And, yes, I do give my IDE 1GB of RAM to work with. My development box has 4GBs so I have plenty to spare :).</p>
<p align="justify">6 <strong>Configure Eclipse To Use a JDK, not a JRE</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Eclipse comes with its own Java compiler, so technically you don’t need to install a Java Development Kit (JDK) from Sun to develop Java programs with Eclipse - a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) works just fine.</p>
<p align="justify">However, you’re going to want to install a JDK and configure Eclipse to use it. The reason is that this is the easiest way to get the Java source code into your development environment. Doing this will allow you do set browse into and set breakpoints in Java classes, as well as giving you Javadoc support in the IDE for all the standard library classes and methods.</p>
<p align="justify">To configure Eclipse to use a JDK, first make sure you’ve installed a JDK on your machine. Then in Eclipse, go to Window -&gt; Preference -&gt; Java -&gt; Installed JREs, and make sure that the default (checked) JRE points to your JDK installation.</p>
<p align="justify">7 <strong>Use the Eclipse’s Refactoring Support and Code Generation</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Eclipse originally became popular because of its support for various kinds of refactorings<br />
of Java classes. These refactorings are still some of the best of any IDE available today.</p>
<p align="justify">Many of the refactorings are somewhat hidden and will show up when performing other operations, but you can get started with refactorings by right-clicking in the Package Explorer and looking at the Refactor and Source menus.</p>
<p align="justify">Eclipse also has extensive support for code generation. If you’re writing constructors, getters, or setters by hand then learning to use code generation for this will be a huge time saver. Looking at the Source menu mentioned above will get you started with code generation.</p>
<p align="justify">8 <strong>Use Multiple Workspaces Effectively</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Eclipse supports a concept called workspaces. A workspace is a container of projects that has its own set of preferences and metadata. An installation of Eclipse can work with multiple workspaces - you can tell Eclipse which workspace to use when starting up.</p>
<p align="justify">Why are multiple workspaces useful? Many developers create an Eclipse workspace for each version of an application, so doing maintenance work and new development don’t conflict. This maps very naturally to branches in a source control system. Multiple workspaces are also good for separating different projects you may be working on at the same time.</p>
<p align="justify">The easiest way to specify which workspace Eclipse uses is to use the -data and -showlocation parameters with the launcher:</p>
<p align="justify">eclipse -data c:\myworkspace -showlocation</p>
<p align="justify">The -data parameter directs Eclipse to use the “c:\myworkspace” directory on the local machine as the workspace directory. The -showlocation parameter shows the workspace location in the Eclipse title bar - very helpful when running multiple Eclipse instances at the same time.</p>
<p align="justify">One note - don’t waste time setting your preferences in each workspace you create. Simply use the Import and Export options under the file menu to export preference from one workspace you’ve already set up into new workspaces you create.</p>
<p align="justify">9 <strong>Use Templates</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Eclipse has two different concepts of templates. I’m not going to talk much about Code Templates, which control what generated code looks like. Instead, I’d like to point your attention to Editor Templates, which are a bit like macros.</p>
<p align="justify">For instance, open a Java class in an editor, type in “sysout” and press ctrl-space. An editor template automatically expands that to “System.out.println()” and positions your cursor in the right place. This is probably the simplest example of templates, but they can be much more complex than that.</p>
<p align="justify">Get comfortable with templates, and learn the template for each piece of boilerplate code like loops, casts, try/catch blocks, etc. You should never have to write these things by hand if you are comfortable with the templates. Even better, you can create your own parameterized templates for commonly used code constructs.</p>
<p align="justify">10 <strong>Set Type Filters</strong></p>
<p align="justify">You can filter the types that Eclipse uses for auto-completion and when searching for classes. For example, there are two classes called List in Java’s standard library - java.util.List and java.awt.List. If you’re not a Swing, developer, you probably don’t care about java.awt.List and almost always want Eclipse to prefer java.util.List. To do this, you can filter out java.awt.List (even better, java.awt.*).</p>
<p align="justify">Filters are configured through Window -&gt; Preferences -&gt; Java -&gt; Appearance -&gt; Type Filters. If you’re seeing classes show up at the top of your search you know you’re not interested in, filter them out for faster searching.</p>
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