For Mac, Linux and Windows: This line of code exploits the Content Tabs feature in recently released Thunderbird 3. The Content Tabs feature allows you to display brows-able web content in a new Thunderbird tab – with this line of code created by Joshua Cranmer (Quetzalcoatal blog) you can open Google Wave right inside Thunderbird 3. More»
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Linux users that want to run Google Chrome on their “healthy” systems no longer have to get the unstable Google Chrome Development Build – Google has provided a less-unstable beta for Linux and Mac users. This beta doesn’t have all the features available to Chrome on Windows like the --purge-memory-button switch that adds a ‘Purge memory’ button to the Task Manager – it helps to free up your memory. Google Chrome for Linux Beta is the same version (4.0.249.30) with the cutting-edge Chrome development builds. More»
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For Windows, Mac and Linux: Thunderbird 3 makes it to the final after many preliminary betas, lovers of the open source cross-platform desktop email client can now grab it and enjoy its many new features. More»
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Google has a launched a new service, well that no news, what makes news is that it’s a free DNS (Domain Name System) service called Google Public DNS.
Why will Google offer a service you already have, given that your ISP (Internet Service Provider) automatically handles the switching between easy-to-remember domain names and unique Internet Protocol (IP) numbers? As Google puts it – it aims at a more secure, faster, safer and reliable DNS alternative.
Like OpenDNS, Google Public DNS is free of charge. If you wish to try it full instructions are available for Mac, Windows and Linux (Debian and Ubuntu) platforms.
If you’ve set-up a VPN (virtual private network) in Ubuntu with OpenVPN protocol that uses OpenDNS servers, like Idid here with UltraVPN, you can also switch from OpenDNS to Google Public DNS.
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Windows, Linux and Mac: Print Context Menu is a Firefox extension that adds the Print and Print Preview options to the context menu of your Firefox browser. That’s all.
This little extension adds to Firefox’s right-click menu a feature that most other browsers like Opera, Internet or Google Chrome have out of the box.
Anyway power Firefox users do ctrl+p to get the printing started and when ever they need the Print Preview they hit alt+f, then v
Print Context Menu is a free download for all platforms with Firefox
via [How-To Geek]
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