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NameBench - Software That Mentions Fastest DNS Server For You

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:38:57 PST

How irritating is it to wait for a webpage to load? If you are a major surfer of the internet im sure you know how frustrating it is sometimes to wait for webpages to load or sometimes refreshing the...

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Google Turns ISP - Plan To offer 1Gbps Internet Speeds

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:52:15 PST

Great news for people living in the USA . Google has announced that it will offer 1gbps internet speeds at certain parts of the USA. The speeds being 100 times more than what people are currently...

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Watch Bollywood Movies Online for FREE On Youtube

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:43:36 PST

Great news for all bollywood fans all over the world . You can now watch bollywood movies for free on youtube . Ofcourse their movie database will not have the latest releases . But i guess movies...

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Watch IPL Season 3 Cricket Live On Youtube This Year

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:00:23 PST

IPL fans are in for a treat . This year IPL has decided to go online by making a deal with google and streaming all the IPL season 3 matches online through youtube . I'm sure a lot of people will be...

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PHPSYSINFO - Get Important Information About System Facts On Web Browser

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:21:24 PST

Last week , i had written about a tool called webmin which gives you complete access to your ubuntu linux machine remotely via a web browser . PHPSYSINFO is a much more lighter and simpler tool which...

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Webmin For Ubuntu Linux - Complete Review and How To

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:01:02 PST

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. This application is very useful incase you run a linux headless server at home . You can remotely access all the important settings...

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Web Browsers AutoComplete Feature - Boon or Bane ?

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:14:53 PST

The AutoComplete feature of web browsers are quite popular . I'm sure its being used by most internet explorer users . It sure is pretty helpful as you dont need to enter the whole website address or...

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Ubuntu Version Of Firefox Messed Up

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:08:02 PST

Its been over 5 years since i've used ubuntu and i'm really disappointed at certain issues which ubuntu still has inspite of a new release every 6 months . One of the major problems is with...

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How To Install Official Google Chrome In Ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:34:58 PST

Finally , Google has come out with its own Official version of google chrome for ubuntu which gives you the full version of google chrome with all its features . I have been waiting for the ubuntu...

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Google Picasa For Ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:58:54 PST

Picasa as you all know is google's photo manager and is available in multiple platforms including ubuntu . The main advantage of picasa software is that you can link it to the picasa web albums which...

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How To Integrate Google Calendar Into Evolution In Ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:08:56 PST

This tutorial is for all ubuntu users who use google calendar . This tutorial would help you integrate google calendar in evolution so that it would be easier to manage your calendar instead of...

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How To Extract RAR Files In Ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:30:12 PST

Ubuntu by default does not support extracting of RAR files . The Archive manager of ubuntu does not support RAR files , so you cannot directly extract a RAR file in Ubuntu . So here's how you do it...

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Google Wave - New Way To Communicate??

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:56:54 PST

Google Wave has been launched since quite a while . I'm sure a lot of you have tried it or probably many of you are still waiting for your invites . Google Wave received a lot of attention when it...

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Mozilla Weave - Sync Your Browsing Data With Weave

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:14:55 PST

Mozilla Labs have come out with an interesting service called Weave . This seems to be very useful as it allows you to sync all your browsing data with multiple devices . SO if you open a webpage on...

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Google Voice Now At Its Best!!

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:43:22 PST

Ever since google voice had acquired gizmo servers , their service with the SIP network has been simply fantastic . Gizmo servers used to be pretty stable at one point of time , but ever since google...

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Control Your Ubuntu Desktop Using Your Voice - Gnome Voice Control

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:38:58 PST

Windows has plenty of applications including a built in one to control your windows desktop using your voice . Right from opening applications to shutting down your machine you could use your voice ....

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FACEPAD - Download Facebook Photos and Albums To Your PC

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:32:25 PST

A lot of photos go on facebook and we often would like to keep a copy of those pics on our computers . Facebook doesnt give you a direct option to download these pictures .So here is a way you can...

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Deluge WebUI - A Really Nice Add-on For Deluge

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:57:17 PST

Deluge as you all know is a very popular torrent client in ubuntu . It works flawlessly and can copmletely replace utorrent which is used in ubuntu . Now most of us have deluge installed on main...

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Google's New DNS servers and How To Use It

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:31:35 PST

Google had recently launched their own public DNS servers which would be FREE to use for the world . They promise a much faster and a much more secure service . Being google i'm sure not quality is...

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How TO Try Out Google Chrome OS On your Windows Or Ubuntu Machine

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:53:29 PST

Google Chrome 0S had been spoken about by google a few days ago and a compilation of google chrome OS has been made by gdgt.com . Its in the vmware format , so you could use VMWARE to actually run...

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How To Grab Your Copy Of Office 2010

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:49:57 PST

Microsoft has recently launched the public beta of Office 2010 . Its now available to download from their homepage . The beta version lasts till october 2010 which is almsot a year and you dont have...

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How to enqueue an mp3 file to totem in ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:04:32 PST

One of the missing things in ubuntu which softwares like winamp in windows have is the option to enqueue a media file . This can be done by a simple procedure allowing you to enqueue a media file in...

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Gizmo is now under Google

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:48:27 PST

This is some really good news for all existing gizmo users . Ever since google voice tied up with gizmo for their SIP support , there was always this feeling that google would acquire gizmo anytime ....

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How To Fix : CheckGmail Unable To Login

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:58:59 PST

This small tutorial would help you fix the issue where checkgmail( which is an application which shows you all your latest gmail mails on your desktop) fails to login . The app repeatedly asks you...

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How To Remote Access Or Remote Control A Scanner From LAN or INTERNET

noreply@blogger.com (prashanth babu) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:05:07 PST

This is a very common situation for most of us . Accessing your printer over a network is pretty simple to setup but remote accessing your scanner over the network can be difficult. This tutorial...

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