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Control firefox with the keyboard using ubiquity

By Sharninder | Published: January 31, 2009
Well, actually, Ubiquity can do a lot more. Ubiquity is a firefox extesion that is can really only be described as a launcher for the Internet, integrated with the web browser, which in this case is Firefox. Confused ? Well, Let me explain. Ubiquity allows you to use your keyboard to give commands to the browser that’ll [...]
Posted in Firefox, Linux, Useful Utilities | Tagged add-ons, extension, Firefox, firefox extensions, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | 1 Comment

Zim – Desktop based wiki for Linux

By Sharninder | Published: January 26, 2009
Applications to help you take and organize notes on your computer are available dime-a-dozen. Linux purists will, ofcourse, give their vote to text editors such as Vim or Emacs but there are also applications such as Tomboy and BasKet available for the non-geeky users that make taking and organizing notes on Linux a breeze. Ofcourse, taking [...]
Posted in Linux | Tagged Linux, useful tools, Useful Utilities | 4 Comments

Search Wikipedia and Google from the Start menu in Vista

By Sharninder | Published: January 23, 2009
The search function integrated in the Start menu is probably one of the best features in Windows Vista. I use it all the time to search for files on my computer and even as a launcher to launch applications. It also gives an option to search the Internet from the same search box, but the [...]
Posted in Windows | Tagged Google, Tips and tricks, useful tricks, vista, Wikipedia, Windows | 1 Comment

Move your feedburner feeds to Google

By Sharninder | Published: January 23, 2009
Google acquired feedburner somewhere in 2007 and since then has been running the service almost unchanged. But, that is going to change soon. The feedburner service (which is also used to manage the feed of this blog) is going to go away sometime over the course of next week and Google is migrating all users from [...]
Posted in WebApps | Tagged Google, Tips and tricks | 2 Comments

Configure Remote Access to your Ubuntu Desktop

By Sharninder | Published: January 22, 2009
Ever tried helping your non-technical friends with their computer problems over phone. If yes, you know how irritating that can be. To solve the problem, Microsoft added an option to one of the Win XP service packs to let remote users take control of your system and made troubleshooting Windows systems much easier. Microsoft on [...]
Posted in Linux | Tagged Linux, remote access, Tips and tricks, ubuntu | 1 Comment

Resize images easily with Bulk Image Resizer

By Sharninder | Published: January 21, 2009
Bulk Image Resizer from Mariussoft is a free utility to quickly and easily convert multiple images at the same time. The utility supports the most popular image formats and the resized images are of good quality free from any distortions. The application is pretty simple to use with just a few options. Chose the images that [...]
Posted in Windows | Tagged Useful Utilities, Windows | 6 Comments

Kallow aims to simplify electronic shopping for the non-geeks

By Sharninder | Published: January 20, 2009
Kallow is a new web service designed to make it easier for the non-geeks to purchase electronic online. Purchasing electronics online is a mess ! And Kallow aims to solve that problem by doing all the heavy lifting itself and presenting the user with just a single choice. So, all the user has to do is [...]
Posted in WebApps | Tagged online shopping, tool, useful tools, Useful webapps | 5 Comments

A simple tool to preview and compare fonts online

By Sharninder | Published: January 19, 2009
Trying to select the best font for a particular job is every designer’s nightmare. A font which looks fine on your computer might do wonders for a print campaign and be way off for an online campaign. I have spent hours myself trying to find the perfect font for my projects and no matter how hard [...]
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Export your Google Notebook to Ubernote

By Sharninder | Published: January 17, 2009
Google recently announced that it is going to stop any further development on the Google Notebook project. This is bad news for the 5 of you who actually used Google notebook for any productive use. The good news is that your existing data is not going anywhere and you can still use the data that [...]
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Turn off deep linking in yahoo search results

By Sharninder | Published: January 16, 2009
According to wikipedia, deep linking is defined as: Deep linking, on the World Wide Web, is making a hyperlink that points to a specific page or image on another website, instead of that website’s main or home page. Such links are called deep links. Yahoo search recently turned on deep linking and images from wikipedia for any [...]
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