Archive for August, 2007

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Configure Firefox to consume less RAM.

If you think that Firefox is consuming a lot of memory than try out this. Go to the address bar on your Firefox browser and write

about:config.

Go down to the filter browser.cache and select browser.cache.disk.capacity. By default it’s usually set to 50000. This value could be lowered depending on how much ram you have. Try 20000 if you have between 512Mb and 1GB of Ram. If you have less than 512Mb then reduce to 10000. (more…)

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

A MyDashboard Plugin review

The author of this remarkable plugin, Barry for Clearskys intends giving new features and a bit of colour to the old WordPress dashboard. The new plugin called The MyDashboard plugin is designed to replace the limited WordPress dashboard with something a bit more useful, extend-able and skinnable.

Features include: (more…)

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Java Runtime Environment (JRE6) for Ubuntu

The Java Runtime Environment(JRE) enables your computer to run applications and applets that use Java technology. Without it some web pages would not be completely downloaded. In Ubuntu JRE, and the JRE plugin for Firefox have to be installed personally. Unfortunately Debian based systems have to use an alternative method because Sun Microsystems provides only RPM and Binary packages. (more…)

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

CookieCuller Firefox extension

Beware of cookies. They are omni present and violating your on-line anonymity. If you want total control over which cookies stay on your computer and which cookies can be automatically deleted, then the Firefox extension, CookieCuller is for you. Normally you can clear-up your cookies using the Firefox >> Tools >> Clear Personal Data >> Cookies but it does not give you the possibility to retain your protected cookies. (more…)

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Kabatology:Open Source, Linux Redesigned

After putting in hours, days and weeks I can finally say Kabatology now has a new professional and Adsense-optimized WordPress theme. Cleaning up the code was more tedious, brain-cracking (Case Tête) and time-wasting than I expected. Anyway the positive feedbacks I received, say it was worth the pain. Web designing is a continuous process, one can never say its all over. I’ll say for now this is the base design. So, what’s new… (more…)

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Webilder / Flickr sets your desktop wallpaper

For Linux platforms; Ubuntu Dapper, Edgy and Feisty, Debian Etch, Fedora Core 6 and more
To change, your desktop wallpaper in Gnome or KDE is an easy affair. In the first case its enough to right click the an empty space on the desktop and choose Change Desktop Background. The same procedure is needed with the KDE, right-click >> Configure Desktop. Given that the desktop background has become important from an aesthetic point of view, we do not want to be limited to a static desktop; here comes the geniality. With the help of Flickr (the popular meeting place for photographers and digital image lovers) we could pimp up our desktops.
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