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Windows Live POP3: Send and Receive mail from any other email account using Windows Live Mail


Windows Live POP3: Send and Receive mail from any other email account using Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail (Your Very own Hotmail) now supports POP3. So what does this mean for us? Well, a lot. You can now manage all your email accounts using just your Windows Live Mail account. You can receive all your mail from other e-mail accounts on Windows Live Mail and also reply to them using that…

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By Debjit
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TumblrMaps generates XML sitemaps for your Tumblr blog, gets more google traffic


TumblrMaps generates XML sitemaps for your Tumblr blog, gets more google traffic

If you are a blogger who uses the Tumblr platform for blogging, then you have a very good chance of driving more traffic to your blog from all search engines. TumblrMaps is a new service that generates an XML sitemap for your Tumblr blog. An XML sitemap, when submitted to a search engine, makes it…

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Add your nickname to your Facebook profile along with your regular name


Add your nickname to your Facebook profile along with your regular name

Facebook has always worked their way to make things very easy and meaningful for us in all things social networking. This time they have brought yet another enhancement to make our lives a bit more easier on the web by allowing all users to set a nickname (alternate name) in their profile along with your…

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How To Start Applications In Different Viewports In Ubuntu


How To Start Applications In Different Viewports In Ubuntu

In Ubuntu linux, when an application is launched, it always starts in the active viewport. However, we can make the applications start is some pre-specified viewports whenever we launch them. Launching applications in different viewports than in the active ones have many benefits of their own and help you get more productive while at work. In…

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By Ricky
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Windows 7 tip: Control Windows Media Player right from the taskbar


Windows 7 tip: Control Windows Media Player right from the taskbar

Windows 7 doesn’t have the in-built function of the Windows Media Player – Quick Launch integration. All the versions of  Microsoft’s Windows operating systems prior to the Windows 7 OS have this functionality wherein when you minimise the Windows Media Player, it would go dock into the Quick Launch bar, provided Quick Launch – Media…

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Fix the No support for OpenGL direct rendering error during Virtualbox Guest Additions installation


If you are installing the Virtualbox Guest Additions package on a Linux Guest then you might end up with an error such as No support for OpenGL direct rendering as reported by one of our readers. This can be easily fixed by using an alternate command to install the Virtualbox Guest Additions instead of the one…

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By Debjit

Redirect visitors to domain.com from www.domain.com and vice-versa in Apache


Redirect visitors to domain.com from www.domain.com and vice-versa in Apache

In order to get  maximum Google juice to your website, you should make sure that all your content point to one universal URL. For eg. If you use www.yourdomain.com as your website address then make sure that you set this as the default hyperlink to every file on your server. Then do not use domain.com…

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By Debjit

How to set the currently playing track/song in Amarok as your status in Pidgin using AmarokPidgin


How to set the currently playing track/song in Amarok as your status in Pidgin using AmarokPidgin

For some unknown reason, I (as well as many other) like to set my currently playing track as my status in Gtalk and other IM clients. In Windows, with Gtalk and Winamp, this can be done done very easily. (From Winamp 5.5, there is a bit of problem.) But in Linux neither the GTalk client…

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By Ricky

Set Bing background images as your Desktop Wallpaper


Set Bing background images as your Desktop Wallpaper

Bing search engine (read: decision engine) uses some really nice background images to provide a sober look to  the search engine. These background images come from the lenses of famous photographers and are hand picked by Bing team before they make it to the website. The best part about these images are that they change…

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