I wanted to count the number of lines of code for java /jsp/ javascript etc files in my project. Unix word count (wc) tool could have given me the results with some amount of scripting, but thought let me search for some open source tool which gives results in graphical format. Quick search resulted in this neat tool called CLOC – Count Lines of Code.

I really liked the tool - because

• Usage is simple
• Very fast
• Neat report - gives results categorized by file types like java/javascript/css etc

Giving below sample result from the tool -

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.51  T=2.0 s (52.0 files/s, 6020.0 lines/s)

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Language                     files          blank        comment           code

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Java                            47            782            793           3724

Javascript                      18            115            525           2427

CSS                              8            118             48           1453

JSP                             23             47             20           1286

XML                              6            103             21            569

HTML                             2              0              0              9

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SUM:                           104           1165           1407           9468

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My friend recently bought a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows 7 pre installed. Don’t know what he did, he called me up and said he forgot the password and couldn’t login into the system. I was sure I could do something if it was Linux, but Windows I was not confident, anyway I told him to bring it, so I could see what I could do. After some serious search and I found this tool Offline NT Password & Registry Editor , which gave me the needed solution. Here is a good step by step guide for using this tool - How to Remove Passwords Using Offline NT Password & Registry Editor. So next time you are in same situation don’t worry, you can login without making any destruction to your old data.

Found this cool online tool - Roomle through Lifehacker

Its really amazing to see this software, because of reasons 1 - Its free, 2 - Its online, so no software required to be installed 3 - Its fast, and it gives just what you need.

• Tux Paint Unique feature for kids is the Coloring Book , where we can load a coloring book type image from the available library of images and then allow the kids to color the image parts with brush Checkout the Tux paint users gallery here looks cool

• KTuberling Good game which kindles the creativity of kids

• GCompris This is a software suite with numerous activities for kids

Couple of times I wanted to use Boxee in Ubuntu 64 bit, but failed attempting it because there was no official support for it. Recently I found that they have released it Ubuntu 64 - Boxee. I downloaded and installed the .deb file and it started and worked without any problems. Even IR remote which I had configured for XBMC worked without any change for Boxee too, which I believe is because Boxee is based on XBMC code base.

Also I fount that they are planning to sell a hardware Boxee Box, which looks good, but one more addition they can make to the hardware is to add a DVD / Blu ray drive