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Gnome 3.0: Tricks & Tips

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:56:15 PDT

Tricks and tips about Gnome 3.0: Download Gnome 3.0 (from Gnome3.org) Four Tweaks to bring back missing functionality in Gnome 3.0 (Ars Technica) Five Tips for Making Gnome 3 and Ubuntu Unity More...

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How to Play Blu-Ray Discs on Your Computer

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:47:35 PDT

How to Play Blu-Ray Discs on Your Computer (Lifehacker) Excerpt: Sony's licensing on Blu-ray is obnoxious, and it means it's pretty difficult to play Blu-rays on your computer—in fact, Windows is...

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Android

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:38:16 PDT

Everything you wanted to know about Android Phones & Apps: (1) General How to Pick Your Next Android Phone (Lifehacker)Five Best Phone Recovery Tools (Lifehacker) (2) Google Nexus Phones Google...

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Nokia, Symbian, Qt

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:01:50 PDT

Everything you wanted to know about Nokia, Symbian, Qt: (1) Nokia Firmware/Apps: Nokia Device Software Update List: very useful list to check what firmware/software updates are available for your...

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How to Make a Website (LifeHacker)

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:21:39 PDT

LifeHacker has an excellent 5-part series on creating your own website from scratch, entitled: "How to Make a Website." You can either download all the parts as a single PDF File or click on the...

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Dropbox & SugarSync: File Sharing in the Cloud

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Sat, 07 May 2011 20:43:12 PDT

When friends ask me what I recommend for file sharing and syncing in the Cloud, I have no hesitation in recommending both Dropbox and SugarSync. Both are excellent and reliable cloud-based sites for...

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How to Stream Al-Jazeera Live In Ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:45:28 PST

Al-Jazeera has emerged as an indispensable news source for these turbulence times in the Middle East and North Africa. If you live in the United States, you are limited to watching Al-Jazeera on the...

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Recommended Firefox's Privacy Add-ons

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:11:05 PST

Are you tired of ad networks, companies, etc. mining your browsing data? Worried about Flash supercookies, web bugs, etc? One reason I continue to use Firefox, notwithstanding its memory leak, is...

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Using Ninite To Install Multiple Apps Simultaneously on Windows & Ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:20:09 PDT

In an earlier blog post, Freeware Maintenance and Antimalware Software for Windows, I recommended freeware maintenance and antimalware software for Windows that I am using on my Windows systems. It...

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Using Diskpart on your Windows CD to Zero Out Your Hard Drive

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:53:33 PDT

One easy way to zero out your hard drive, i.e., writing zeros to your hard drive to wipe out any data (e.g., before you sell your old computer on EBay, donate it to Goodwill, etc) is to use...

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Freeware Maintenance & Antimalware Software for Windows

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:44:53 PDT

I am often asked by family members and friends to recommend freeware maintenance and antimalware software for Windows. Here's a listing of what I use on my own Windows computers: Firewall: ZoneAlarm...

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Accessing Your Outlook WebMail Using Thunderbird

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:50:50 PDT

Tired of accessing your Outlook WebMail using Microsoft's clunky web interface? Do you know that you can configure a mail client such as Thunderbird to access your Outlook WebMail? You should ...

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Weekend Project: Resurrecting An Ancient Laptop For My Son's Use

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:24:21 PDT

While cleaning out the closet this weekend, I came across an ancient 10-year old Toshiba Satellite 2800-S201 laptop with a 650 MHz Celeron processor, a puny 6 GB drive and 64 MB RAM and Windows ME...

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How to Send Text Messages for Free Without A Text Message Plan

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:38:23 PDT

Do you know that you can send text messages for free, i.e., without a text message plan? Here are two ways of sending text messages for free, i.e., without a text message plan on your cellphone or...

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Cheat Sheets/Quick References for Programmers & Developers

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:10:45 PDT

Link: DevCheatSheet.com About this site (from the site's FAQ): DevCheatSheet.com is a directory of free, technical cheat sheets and quick reference cards for developers, programmers, engineers, and...

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How to Open Nautilus as Root in Ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:38:36 PDT

Wouldn't it be convenient to work in Nautilus as root instead of working in terminal? Here's how you can open Nautilus as root in Ubuntu: Step 1: Press the [ALT] + [F2] keys. This calls up the "Run...

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Generating Placeholder Text (Lorem ipsum) in Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:00:21 PDT

Do you know that you can automatically generate placeholder text (a.k.a. "Lorem ipsum") in Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010 using the command: =lorem (x,y) where x=total number of paragraphs and...

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Using Proxy Servers To Bypass Web Filters

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:12:17 PDT

Many schools, colleges, employers, corporations, and even countries employ web filters to control the sites that a person can visit. A savvy user can get around web filters through the use of proxy...

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Free Reverse Landline and Cellphone Number Lookups

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:00:20 PDT

Phonelookup.com offers free (at least for now) reverse phone lookups for U.S. phone numbers. Type in the phone number in the search box and Phonelookup.com will try to locate the name and address of...

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Blocking Adult Content From Your Home Network Using OpenDNS's Family Shield

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:31:41 PDT

Want to protect your kids from the web's seedy side but don't want to deal with the hassle of installing software-based web filters? OpenDNS has launched a new service, i.e., the Family Shield that...

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Website Analytics

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:08:19 PDT

Everything you wanted to know about website analytics: Google Webmaster Tools Best free tools for analyzing web traffic patterns to your site. Spyfu An excellent tool to track your competitor's...

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Google PacMan!

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:48:49 PDT

Enjoy playing Google PacMan? Thanks to overwhelming requests, Google has enshrined its PacMan game at: http://www.google.com/pacman. If you have your own website or blog, go ahead to impress your...

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How To Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:14:39 PST

Tired of how Facebook is reducing your ability to control the dissemination of your personal information? Unhappy with how Facebook crushes your privacy with impunity? Paranoid about Facebook's ever...

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Lightweight Linux Distros

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:03:59 PDT

Looking for a lightweight Linux distro for your ancient computer or underpowered netbook? TuxRadar recent tested the major lightweight Linux distros and proclaim Slitaz to be the winner. As for me,...

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UPDATED 6/03/10: Using Calibre to Manage Your E-Book Collection & Convert Your Ebooks from PDFs to ePub Format for your iPad

noreply@blogger.com (J Tan) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:59:58 PDT

Looking to convert your E-Book Collection in PDF or other formats to the ePub format for your brand new iPad? You would want to download and use Calibre -- a highly rated open-source cross-platform...

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