Archive for May, 2007

The Ubuntu guy now has a Dell Branded T Shirt

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed to receive the latest updates. Thanks for visiting!If you know what’s Ubuntu, you must have probably seen this kind of a picture on most Ubuntu branded stuff:

Today such a picture looked different on the Ubuntu Homepage, with a modification:

The guy with the [...]

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CommentPower: Evaluate, rate and enhance comments

CommentPower is a new Web 2.0 service that you can integrate with your blog and use it to enhance comments. Currently, the service is in Private Beta, but hopefully, it will be out soon for everyone to use.
Upon installing and activating the plugin on your blog, you get options that’ll help you and your readers [...]

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Firefox extension: A progress bar inside your address bar

Fission is a cool new funky Firefox addon that displays a progress bar inside your browser’s address bar.
It basically combines Firefox’s address bar and Progress bar like this:

(click the image for a bigger view)
You could change the colour of the progress bar, and align it to the right/left using the options available. Plus, you could [...]

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Two alternatives to Adobe PDF Reader

Most of you use Adobe Reader for reading PDF documents on your PC. But it’s a PC slowmaker. Earlier my PC used to crash whenever I used to open a huge PDF document on Adobe reader. Why not you try some alternatives to Adobe Reader?

Foxit Reader (Download Link)
Foxit Reader is the best available alternative to [...]

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Disable Firefox Password manager

Every so often, you get to see this dialog in Firefox asking you whether you want it to remember your login password for a particular site or not:

This may annoy you, and here’s how you can disable it:

Navigate to Tools >> Options in the menu bar
Under Security, uncheck the option Remember passwords for sites
Click Ok [...]

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Wordpress Tip: Modify Post Slugs for better SEO

Post slug is a mostly underused option in WordPress.
By default, if you write a blog post with the title “This is the heading”, your post permalink may be something like this domain.com/date/this-is-the-heading (if you still have something like domain/?p=55, you could change this in Options >> Permalinks)
WordPress generates these post permalinks based on your [...]

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