You can install python brew with any of the method mentioned below.

Easy method

This method requires you to have cURL up and running.

$ sudo easy_install pythonbrew

$ pythonbrew_install

Manual Installation

You need to follow this method if cannot get your cURL/ automatic fetch of required resources from various repositories,  to work. This might happen, if you are like me who is trying this installation from behind an enterprise proxy.

Once you installed ‘pythonbrew’ using method 1 or 2, you can follow the steps above (from Python installation part)  and switch to the new version.

pythonbrew Info
App Name	pythonbrew
License	free
Type	code
App URL
More Info	link

For applications that are assessed at the end of every release cycle (version change), from this graph, one can visualize the trend of vulnerability detection. Here severity scale – Critical, High, Medium & Low (Info) is also displayed in the graph.

We will have a look at 2 charting APIs to achieve this – Google Charts and Highcharts

Using Google Charts

By using Google Charts API, we try to embed the following chart on our SharePoint site. Once the code is embedded, user can hover over the data points to get its value and other information.

There are various obvious reasons for choosing a chart API over a static image inserted into the site.

1. Its easy to update. Just need to change the values in the embed code.
2. Less cluttered. As you can see, values of the data points are not displayed in the chart. If anyone needs to know the value, he/she just has to hover over any column.
3. This can later be programmed to update itself from the data available in any SharePoint list.

Steps

1. Add a ‘Content Editor Web part’ by clicking ‘Add a Web Part’ option.

2. Now access the ‘Source Editor’ via ‘edit – Modify Shared Web Part’.

3. Paste the following code on to the source editor. Replace the ‘data required’ block to match with your data table.

4. You can use this google spreadsheet to convert tabular data to google charts API mark up - http://goo.gl/ALbIc.

5. Insert the data generated in column ‘H’ on to the Google Chart code.

Few Points

1. If you need to change the severity scale to something other than C, H, M, L then modify it on ‘var rowData’ and the match the number of data values appropriately.
2. Change chart dimensions, color and other properties in draw() options.

Using Highcharts

High charts is yet another popular charting solution. Unlike, Google charts, we don’t have to modify the embed code to update the graph values. In the following example, we use a feature in highcharts that extracts value from HTML table that is displayed on the same page. So we just need to update the data in the HTML table using the SharePoint Rich Text Editor and graphs are automatically updated.

Steps

First, we need to download Highcharts API and extract it to our local directory. Then upload ‘highchart.js‘ to your SharePoint site (I copied to ‘Shared Documents‘, you can upload it anywhere you want). Note the relative URL of that js file.

1. Add 2 content editor webparts. One webpart holds embed code for Chart and other for data table

2. Chart webpart – Access source code editor and paste the following code. Replace the highcharts.js URL with previously copied SharePoint URL. (It will be something like /Shared%20Documents/hc/highcharts.js)

3. Datatable webpart – Access source code editor and paste the following code.

4. Updating the data – Click on Modify Shared Web part and access the Rich Text Editor. Now, any one can modify the values from the table without messing up the embed code markup.

When the SharePoint page that contains the chart code loads, highchart.js file will be initialized and values in the HTML table below (identified by the table id – ‘datatable’) are extracted and displayed on the graph. Similar to Google charts, we can hover over any of the columns to view the value of data point.

Few Points

1. Chart dimensions can be modified by changing the attributes of ‘container‘ div in Chart Web part source.
2. Match the value of table id with the value in document.getElementById. Default is ‘datatable‘
3. Change the severity levels in datatable by deleting or adding columns on Rich text editor. Your scale might be H, M, L so delete ‘Critical’ column.
4. Change the title and other options in Highcharts code if necessary. Refer to highchart documentation

There are various other solutions which involves access to SharePoint designer or to be able to upload third-party web parts on the SharePoint server. If you want a simple front-end solution, this works the best.

Highcharts Info
App Name	Highcharts
License	free
Type	code
App URL
More Info	link

1. A word document containing images to be extracted.

2. Open the word document as an archive using 7Zip.

3. Browse for media content. Here, media files are present under ‘\word\media\’ folder. The sequence of the embedded images in the document are preserved.

4. Extract the images to any folder of your choice.

Tip!:

Use the same technique to download the images from any website by copying-pasting the webpage to a word doc and then extract the images. This method is better than saving the page to the hard disk using browser ‘Save As WebPage’  option and manually searching for the media content from the HTML reference folder.

7zip Info
App Name	7zip
License	free
Type	portable
App URL
More Info	link

Download and extract SyntaxHighlighter scripts to your PC (Check the download link at the bottom of the post). Now access the SharePoint site and create a folder structure as shown in the below screenshot (i.e. to create ‘scripts’, ‘src’ and ‘styles’ folders inside syntax folder which is present in ‘Shared Documents’). Now upload the syntax highlighter files to appropriate folders.

Upload Scripts Folder Structure

Step 2

Access the page where you want syntax highlighter to be enabled and go the ‘Edit Mode’.  Add ‘Content Editor Web Part’ to the page. This Web Part will contain the scripts that provides reference to the syntax highlighter code uploaded in SharePoint server.

Add Content Editor Webpart

Step 3

View the Web Part options by clicking on the ‘Modify Shared Web Part’ menu. Click on the ‘Source Editor’ and enter the scripts to call syntax highlighter.

Select Source Editor

<LINK href="/sites/Shared Documents/syntax/styles/shCore.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet>
<LINK href="/sites/Shared Documents/syntax/styles/shThemeDefault.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet>
<SCRIPT src="/sites/Shared Documents/syntax/scripts/shCore.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT src="/sites/Shared Documents/syntax/scripts/shBrushJScript.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>
    SyntaxHighlighter.config.clipboardSwf = '/sites/Shared Documents/syntax/scripts/clipboard.swf';
    SyntaxHighlighter.all();
</SCRIPT>

Note: Change the paths in the script if you have uploaded the syntaxhighlighter code in a different location

Step 4

Hide this Web Part by checking the ‘Hidden’ option.

Hide Layout

Step 5

Add 2nd Content Editor Web Part. This Web Part will contain the code which you want to highlight. Use the Source Editor and paste the code there.

Step 6

Wrap your code with the syntax highlighter wrapper codes, change the language value as per your code. Click Ok to view the syntax highlighted code

<pre class="brush: js">

Syntax Highlighter Info
App Name	Syntax Highlighter
License	free
Type	code
App URL
More Info	link

Click on the Translate and notice that the translation progress is displayed

Real Time Translation - In Progress

The translation process is instantaneous and the translated page is rendered in real time

Translation Complete

Drag n Drop the below Bookmarklet to your Bookmarks bar

Grab the ‘Translate’ bookmark from this link, http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/11/google-translation-bar.html

Using Speedyfox is easy.

1. Download SpeedyFox
2. Run the program and click on ‘Speed Up My Firefox’ button, thats it!

TIP! : For Portable Firefox Users

1. Choose Custom from the Profile dropdown.
2. Browse to ‘PortableFirefox\Data\profiledir’ on your portable drive
3. Now Click on the ‘Speed Up My Firefox’ button

Download SpeedyFox :

Go To SpeedyFox Homepage

Virtual Subst

This can be of very much use if mapping is done for folders with a long path, so that VirtualSubst can act like a bookmark.

TIP:

I usually take backup of my thumbdrive in a particular location, say D:\Usb. Now, when the thumbdrive is not connected, with VirtualSubst I can map the Usb back up folder to a drive letter which would have been assigned if thumbdrive was connected. So my backup folder acts as a virutal usb drive with the advantage of having active linking of most recent files list in my Word or any app. This also helps in creating desktop shortcuts of files present in the thumbdrive, which can be accessed if the thumbdrive is connected or not.

Features

• Tiny and Portable
• Option to enable virtual drives at startup
• Add/Delete any number of virtual drives quickly

Visual Subst Info
App Name	Visual Subst
License	free
Type	portable
App URL
More Info	link

Note : You need to install Faviconize Tab before you proceed with following the below mentioned addons.

If you have faviconize tabs installed and know about it, then skip to Faviconize All Tabs Section

Faviconize Tabs

Faviconize Tab is a wonderful addon which can be helpful for the users who browse heavily with firefox. This addon provides an option to reduce the size of the tab to the favicon of the site reducing clutter.

Before Faviconize

After Faviconize

Download page for Faviconize Tab :

Faviconize All Tabs

I love using Faviconize Tabs and was thinking why is this not a default firefox feature and why in the world would I need to see ‘Site Name – Some Crap Text‘ (Like ‘Gmail – Inbox(3123) – xxx@gmail.com‘) in the tab title to know that its gmail’s tab, if I can simply understand that it is the tab for gmail from the favicon displayed in the tab.

So we can faviconize each tab and keep it simple. But the prob is, every time I have to faviconize any tab, I need to right click and select faviconize and I have to repeat for all the tabs… Is it so? Not really..

Go to Faviconize Preferences and in the Auto Faviconize, put ‘*’ as wildcard. Now every tab you open will be faviconized

Gmail FavIcon Alerts 3

But now you might ask me that the long title in the tab, Gmail – Inbox (No of Unread Messages), is very useful. Atleast you can get to know if you get a new mail, which is not possible with a faviconized tab. But there is an useful greasemonkey script which displays unread count in the tab and also the incoming chat indication in the tab…

Unread Messages

No Unread Message

Incoming Chat

Download Page :

GReader FavIcon Alerts

So what about Google Reader? Fortunately we have something for that too…

Unread Message Count

Unread Message greater than 1K

Download Page :

NOTE: You need GreaseMonkey installed to setup the above to scripts

Tree tabs

So you dont like the tabs on the top or do you think that you need to know from whether you opened this page (Parent page)? Then treetabs is there for you…  Its self explanatory, check the screenshot.

Download page :

Faviconize tabs +(Gmail +Greader) Favicon Alerts +Tree Tabs =  Ultimate Clutter Reduction in Firefox…

Refresh Google Reader and click on filter settings button on the right top and enter your rules in plain text. For specifying advanced rules, few of the RegEx chars can be used.

* Here Trial|Shareware|Demo|Adware in the Excludes section implies that any one of the keyword match from the four specified will exclude (greys out) that post

Google Reader Filter in Action

The above screenshot gives us an idea on how this script was used to highlight the free apps from the trial/demo versions from the Softpedia repository

Note

• You need GreaseMonkey Installed in your Firefox to make this script work!
• This script works only in the list view and not in expanded view
• Check the script Discussions page for more Tips and Tweaks

Install Google Reader Filter :

More Info : Homepage

And what you do is clear the temp files or search for some less important applications which you can uninstall. But you would ultimately fail by not finding the required space. The solution is to change the working folder used by 7zip. By default the working folder will be the root drive where OS is installed.

Change the temp folder is easy, Open Options from Tools Menu and select Plugins tab, now click Options and then Folders tab. Now change the temp folder as shown below.

And commandline options for geeks, the command is

7z x _FiletoExtract_ w_WorkingDir_ o_OutputFolder_

x : Denotes extract
w : Working Folder/Temp Folder (e.g. wD:\tmp\)
o : Output Folder (e.g oD:\Files\)

For more options check here

Note: Changing tempdir is not the feature available only in 7Zip, but its mentioned here because 7Zip is the most popular archivial tools available in the market.