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  • Using Ubuntu Notification System – NotifyOSD

    Ubuntu features a notification system, where you can see a message notifying you about some particular event. Rhythmbox uses it to show the next track when a track ends, Filezilla shows a notification that file transfers are completed when its window is not in focus (Very handy!) and so on several applications can use it…

  • Quickly setup a localhost environment in Ubuntu

    Although, I use Ubuntu, this should apply to a large number of linux distros. Every developer uses a local environment to develop locally before testing it live. I kinda avoid that root by mounting my FTP webspace in Ubuntu and directly working on live files (there is no need of download and upload as you…

  • Deal with Blog Scrappers getting indexed quicker than the original site

    Although its not something that one should be worried about as such things often happen, and its actually a sign that you are growing. I would suggest you to just keep going on with the quality content on your site and not to worry about them scrapping your articles. Google does a pretty good job…

  • Last.fm free Internet Radio hack

    Last.fm is a great service which scrobbles (track) what music you listen to and then recommend you new music based on what you like to listen. You can totally keep your music database online and discover new music that you will actually like. It works great. It offers an Internet radio service which is paid…

  • WordPress Plugin to fix Facebook Like Thumbnail

    Today, Facebook pushed live another change which made Like button work similar to what we had known the Share button to do. Just to brush up, Share button was used to show the Title, Description and a screenshot of the page which you shared and the Like button would only show up as a line…

  • How to find Proxy servers with IP address and Port number

    Proxy servers are used to access Internet by routing your request to a proxy server instead of directly to the server with whom you are communicating with. The proxy server makes a request on your behalf and return the result of the same back to you. It helps in cases of Internet censorship when a…

  • Kontactr WordPress plugin

    My friend, Shankar Ganesh, is involved with Kontactr which provides an easy way for people to let others contact them. After some talk with my friend about implementing it as a plugin on the WordPress side, today I am going to do a quick post on Kontactr implementation on WordPress. Its very basic at the…