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Download National Geographic’s Wallpapers with a Command-Line Script

By • Dec 1st, 2009 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Lovers of kick-ass wallpapers can grab a whole bunch National Geographic’s professional background photos without even visiting the website. You can download National Geographic’s wallpapers one-by-one from the website or use this simple script to a get a whole-them-all in one move.

VirtualBox 3.1.0 comes with Teleportation (live migration) and 2D Video Acceleration Support for Windows guest

By • Dec 1st, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

For windows, Linux and Mac: Not long after the beta release, Sun Microsystems has released version 3.1.0 of the open source visualization application VirtualBox. As already explained in the beta release VirtualBox 3.1.0 is a major update that brings Teleportation (aka live migration) to VirtualBox. This makes it possible to transfer a running virtual machines […]

Message Grouping in Thunderbird

By • Nov 27th, 2009 • Filed under: Email, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

The Message Grouping feature in Thunderbird lets you a tclassy-up your message list into various ‘groups of messages’. In Thunderbird 3 messages can be grouped according to attributes such as Date, Received, Star, Order Received, Priority, From, Recipient, Size, Status, Subject, Read, Tags, Junk Status and Attachments.

Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 Released

By • Nov 26th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

The Firefox 3.6 Beta saga goes on. Episode 4 a.k.a Firefox 3.6 beta 4 adds a 100+ fixes pack to previous Firefox 3.6 beta 3. If you are using Firefox 3.6 beta 3 then Help -> Check for Updates and improve your browsing experience with a more stable and secured FF3.6b4. Web developers and Add-on […]

Google Reader Adds Favicons Support for Subscriptions

By • Nov 25th, 2009 • Filed under: Web Utilities

It was the most requested feature in Google Reader blog’s ‘make Reader better’, and here it comes – you can now add favicons to your Google Reader subscriptions. This feature is not activated by default cause it seems not every one likes a colorful subscription list, if you do like it then go to Google […]