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Settings may refer to the tweaking which can be used to help improve the user-experience or performance etc.

Settings may refer to the tweaking which can be used to help improve the user-experience or performance etc. Settings typically represent a set of options which a user can choose from adjust the interface or controls of a certain application to their preferences.

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Where are the Visual Studio settings stored?

I'm using visual studio 2013. The company I work for has changed domain names (eg from abc.com to ayebecee.com) which obviously means that a new login profile has to be created etc. Now I started up visual studio but all the addons I installed and…
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Open Settings app from another app programmatically in iPhone

I have to open settings app from my app if gps is not enabled in iPhone. I have used the following code. It works well in iOS simulator but it does not work in iPhone. May I know is there any problem in this code. if (![CLLocationManager…
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What is optimal value for Phusion passenger PassengerMaxRequestQueueSize

I know this depends on the box hardware, but for example if there are set 100 processes, the default queue is also 100. Does it makes sense to increase PassengerMaxRequestQueueSize to 200 or 300? Probably this depends on free memory. Thoughts? The…
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How do you refresh PreferenceActivity to show changes in the settings?

Based on the following code, can you tell me how to refresh the PreferenceActivity window to show changes in the settings immediately? For example: the user taps the master chime toggle checkbox to true (ticked), I would like the user to immediately…
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Why am I unable to select a custom Type for a setting from the same project/assembly as the settings file?

I am trying to set the type of an application setting property to a custom enum type I have defined in my assembly (call this Project A) In the settings browser I click browse and am presented with the "Select a Type" dialog box. And the Types…
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Xcode: project settings vs. target settings

I'm creating a static lib on Mac OS X for one of our customers, as well as a small cmd line app to test the static lib. The cmd line project has 2 extra library search paths, which meant I was linking to the Debug version in Release mode and just…
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git whitespace woes

Conflicts on whitespace suck Whitespace has ended up being a horrible pain for me while using git. git config apply.whitespace=strip seems to highten your chances of getting conflicts (as you strip unneeded whitespace and then other collaborators…
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Maintaining a common set of Eclipse preferences

Whenever I switch workspaces/Eclipse installs I need to copy/redo the preferences: compiler settings; font sizes/families; code formatter; java code templates; editor templates; code clean-ups; I would like to maintain these settings in an unitary…
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Specify Django Test Database names in settings.py

I'm specifying the databases using a python object: DATABASES = { 'default':{ 'ENGINE':'mysql', 'NAME':'testsqldb', 'USER':'', 'PASSWORD':'', }, 'dynamic_data':{ 'ENGINE': 'sqlite3', 'NAME':'', …
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How to set default editor tab in Eclipse?

I'm using the HTML editor resp. the Structured Text Editor in Eclipse. It always opens in the tab Visual/Source: Is it possible to tell Eclipse it should always open this editor in the Source tab?
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Android: Detect Do Not Disturb status?

I was just wondering if there's a way to check if an Android device (21+) is in Do Not Disturb mode? I know there's AudioManager.RINGER_MODE_SILENT, but I was wondering if that pertains to this situation, or if there's a better way to check?
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How to access scrapy settings from item Pipeline

How do I access the scrapy settings in settings.py from the item pipeline. The documentation mentions it can be accessed through the crawler in extensions, but I don't see how to access the crawler in the pipelines.
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In Xcode, is there a way to disable the timestamps that appear in the debugger console when calling NSLog?

Xcode's debugger console makes it easy to see any debugging messages my app sends out using NSLog(), but it always sticks a timestamp prefix on them: 2009-08-30 04:54:48.128 MyApp[94652:a0f] some log message 2009-08-30 04:54:50.647 MyApp[94652:a0f]…
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How to make Flutter app font size independent from device settings?

I needed to make my entire app independed from device's font size settings. I found that I could set textScaleFactor: 1.0 for every text view manualy. It's a good solution for a few Text widgets, but not good for a big app with dozens of Text…
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How to determine when Settings change on iOS

I have created a custom Settings.app bundle using the standard root.plist approach for the iPhone. I'm wondering if there's a way to determine when the user changes those settings in my app...
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