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Google Squared - Your 'Any Product under the sun' Comparision Tool

Google Squared - Your 'Any Product under the sun' Comparision Tool

Google Labs has come out with yet another interesting and 'too good' product - Google Squared. Google Squared aims at reducing and cleaning out the clutter and untidy state of search results on the search page by structuring an organizing the information in rows and columns, spreadsheet style. The s

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6 websites to find awesome free twitter backgrounds

6 websites to find awesome free twitter backgrounds

Twitter has become a very important part of your brand's online portfolio. So you must put some effort into giving attractive looks to your twitter profile. This can be done by adding a good background to your profile. Although twitter provides some very good background images but they are not very

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How to fix broken videos (avi) in Ubuntu or Fedora linux?

How to fix broken videos (avi) in Ubuntu or Fedora linux?

A video is worth billions of words but when a video doesn't play properly i.e. when it plays in discontinuous motion, the video loses all the juice it has. In this article we will tell you how to fix your favorite videos (which are in avi format) in both Ubuntu and Fedora Linux using an utility call

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11 Guides and Videos to get you started with Google Wave

11 Guides and Videos to get you started with Google Wave

Now that you have received a Google Wave invite and already signed up for it, you do not have any clue about how to go ahead with your Wave account and make the most out of it? Do not worry, we bring you a list of 11 guides that will more than help you to get started with this all new Google Wave. A

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World's best Laptops

World's best Laptops

This post is the 1st in the series " World's best Laptops ". You may like to read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4. Yesterday, while I was surfing around looking for a good yet cheap laptop i accidentally hit a few products all of which had jaw-dropping configurations. I was having a hard time bel

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Mozilla Firefox turns 5

Firefox5b Yes, our very favourite Firefox is now 5 years older. Launched way back in 2004, Firefox has definitely revolutionized the way we used to browse the World Wide Web. It added new wings to the browser’s capabilities by introducing the ‘ add-ons ’. Thank you Firefox for everything ! :)

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How To Install Gnome 3 Shell in Ubuntu Karmic Koala

Recently, we wrote an article giving you a visual tour of Gnome 3 Shell. If you want to experience it first hand, we will tell you what you how to do it in this article. Just to start off here is a screenshot of the Gnome 3 Shell:

gnome3_11

Note: Gnome-Shell is still in the development stage and there is always the possibility of something breaking.

1. Open terminal and run the command below to install the Gnome Shell

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

2. After the installaton is done you can start it using the command below in terminal

gnome-shell --replace

3. If you have intel graphics and get just a blank screen after the above command run the command given below before the command in step 2.

export GNOME_SHELL_DISABLE_TFP=1

How to use Google Talk as a feed reader with real time RSS feed updates

google talk rss feed readerGoogle Talk already has many bots that can help you simplify your work. Well in this article we will tell you about yet another chat bot that simply turns your Google Talk into a Feed Reader with real time RSS feed updates – i.e. the moment a feed is published you will be notified about it via a message from the bot. Continue Reading…

How to change the default port and IP address for a website in Microsoft IIS web server?

iis-logoAn web server can be used to host a plethora of websites simultaneously but on different  IP addresses and ports in order to reduce hosting charges. This is technology commonly known as virtual hosting. Well, in this article we will tell you how to change the default port number and IP address for a website in Microsoft IIS web server so that you can add more websites and run them simultaneously.

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Visual Tour of GNOME 3 Shell (in Ubuntu 9.10)

gnome_logoGNOME 3 is the much talked about next generation GNOME that was supposed to come in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. It introduces a radical shift from the interface found in GNOME 2.x. In this article we will give you a quick visual tour of GNOME 3 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Kola. Continue Reading…

How To Enable The Ayatana Notification In Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

kubuntukarmic_logoIn Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, there is a new notification system, called Ayatana Notification, in addition to the KDE Notification. The Ayatana Notification is better than the KDE Notification in several ways.By default, however, the KDE Notification is enabled and the Ayatana Notification has to be enabled manually. In this article, we will show you how to enable the Ayatana Notification. Here is what Ayatana Notification looks like: Continue Reading…

3 Reasons Why You should Use The Ayatana Notification In Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

kubuntukarmic_logoKubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala has been out for a little more than a week now. It is a very solid release and comes with a host of new impressive features – one of them being the Ayatana Notification. Basically, the Ayatana Notification is an alternative to the KDE notification that we are used to by now. By default the Ayatana Notification is disabled by default. But I believe that you would be better off replacing the KDE Notification by the Ayatana Notification. Here are the reasons: Continue Reading…

Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Netbook [Pictures]

As you may be aware, Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala comes with the Netbook Plasma Shell. This is not an actual release but rather a technical preview. The Netbook Plasma Shell will officially be released with KDE 4.4, that is with Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. However, we decided to try it out in Karmic and it was quite impressive and ran smoothly without any problem. Here are some screenshots: Continue Reading…

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