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GrNotify: Your Google Reader Feeds Notification

by nazham on October 28th, 2008

I’m addicted to my rss feeds. I go over the feeds for tech news, current affairs, friends blogs, and many more. However, I don’t want to go to www.google.com/reader each time want to find out what’s new. This is where desktop applications that provides Google Reader notifications comes in.
For Windows: We have Google Reader Notifier [...]

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Cleaning up your Ubuntu Filesystem using FSlint

by nazham on October 23rd, 2008

FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of unwanted/junk/lint files on your Ubuntu filesystem. For example, one form of unwanted files it finds is duplicate files, bad names, temporary files, files with bad symlinks, empty directory, and others.
To install:
sudo apt-get install fslint
Using Fslint:
If you want to open goto Applications—>System Tools—>FSlint
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Drop it, Dropbox!

by nazham on September 21st, 2008

It’s been awhile since I’m searching for a perfect online backup application. I’ve tried many, but none have really captured my attention. Not until I’ve tried Dropbox.
Dropbox is a free, multi-platform, online backup and synchronization application. My first attraction to Dropbox is because the client tools supports Linux. It also suports Mac OSX, and oh [...]

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VPN Connection in Ubuntu using VPNC

by nazham on September 10th, 2008

I’ve been using VPNC in my Ubuntu to access my company’s VPN for quite some time now. The story is, I’ve tried using Cisco VPN, but it will only get me as far as connecting to the VPN server. When I’m trying to access the company’s intranet, I’ll get a “page not found” error slapped [...]

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Google Chrome, a browser by Google

by nazham on September 2nd, 2008

It seems now Google is working on their own web browser, Google Chrome. It’s going to be designed from scratch based on today’s web application needs, and it’s open source!
Here’s the link to the whole comic book explaining Google Chrome.
Taken from the official Google Blog.
UPDATE: Google Chrome site just launched.
UPDATE 2: I’ve just installed Google [...]

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