{EAV_BLOG_VER:b9a2665c1eaecc70} Today, the search giant google celebrates Jorge Luis Borges’s 112th birthday with a Google Doodle draws from his work on it’s home page. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) known as Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires.
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NoDoFollow 1.1 by zacharyfox is not available for firefox 6. Jayce from jayceooi.com changed the installer to make it works on Firefox 6, firefox 7, firefox 8.
1.Download new NoDoFollow 1.5 plugin by Jayce from here
2.Install it and restart firefox.
3.If you want to check a blog is do-follow or no-follow, right click on any part of your webpage in firefox and click NoDoFollow. Do-Follow links turns BLUE and No-Follow turns RED.
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To install Skype 2.2 on ubuntu 11.04
Method 1:
1.Go to Skype download page and download the deb package file for ubuntu (32-bit or 64-bit).
2.Double click the .deb package file or open with ubuntu software center and click the install button.
3.Type your ubuntu password if needed and wait until the installation is complete.
4.To open Skype, click Applications icon from unity launcher. And type Skype in the search applications field and click Skype.
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Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos from Google.
what’s new in this picasa 3.0?
Improved integration with Picasa Web Albums and Collage tool.
Better uploading with the upload Drop-box and bandwidth throttling.
New Retouch tool to remove unsightly blemishes and improve photo quality.
Auto red-eye.
add text or watermarks to your photos.
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Geany is a lightweight cross-platform GTK+ Integrated Development Environment.
Main features of geany:
Syntax highlighting
Code navigation
Code folding
Build system to compile and execute your code
Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
Symbol name auto-completion and Symbol lists
Construct completion/snippets
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Mozilla firefox 8 aurora 2 is now available for download and testing. what’s new in this Mozilla firefox 8 aurora 2?
more control in managing their add-ons.
Tabs animate to make it easier for users to see when they are moving, reordering or detaching them.
Restore tabs on-demand.
Each development channel now has its own Firefox Menu color to easily distinguish among Nightly, Aurora and Beta releases.
Improvements to HTML5 media elements.
Mozilla firefox 7 beta 1 is now available for download and testing on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. what’s new in this firefox 7 beta 1 ?
Optimized Memory Use
Improved memory management
Enhanced Firefox Sync
Azure Direct2D for Canvas
Web timing spec
CSS 3 Text-Overflow: ellipsis:
Telemetry: opt-in to report browser performance data
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According to Matt Mullenweg (Founder), the blogging software WordPress is now powers 14.7% of the top million websites in the world, up from 8.5%. And 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running WordPress. Matt Mullenweg also says that WordPress now has 15,000 plugins and has seen 200 million plugin downloads and from the recent survey 6,800 self-employed respondents were responsible for over 170,000 sites personally.
recordMyDesktop is a free open source linux desktop screencasting program and it producing an ogg encapsulated theora and vorbis output file.
To install recordMyDesktop on ubuntu 11.04
1.Open ubuntu software center.To open ubuntu software center click Applications icon from unity launcher. And type ubuntu software center in the search applications field.Then click ubuntu software center.
2.Type recordMyDesktop in the search box.
3.Select Desktop recorder and click install button.
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Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Thunderbird will be the default e-mail client in Ubuntu 11.10.
what’s new in this Thunderbird 6? click here.
To install thunderbird 6 on ubuntu 11.04
1.Oper the terminal and type
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-stable
hit enter and type ubuntu password.
then type below command and hit enter
sudo apt-get update
type below command and hit enter
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
press y and hit enter to continue
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