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Beware of your tweets

Are you addicted to Twitter? If yes, think twice before tweeting. Nowadays, our world is small, your tweets are going to reveal your character."show me your tweets and I will tell you who you are" is a present day quote. Although I'm talking about twitter here,these "Do n'ts" are applied to all forms of sociable sites. Here are my "Do n'ts" Do not ruffle someone's feathers, like "I hate my CEO." Do not share your bad work experience, like "I'm fed up with same old routine." Do not reveal company secrets, like "I'm currently working on Stephen Spielberg's movie, my next tweet would ...

Installing Firefox and Thunderbird in Ubuntu

If you are an Ubuntian (Ubuntu user), you've probably known Ubuntu updates its software versions every six months with a new release. Mostly, Mozilla, upgrades Firefox / Thunderbird often with security patches or new features-based releases. Ubuntu often includes security patches with its own versions in a day or a week after Mozilla releases their patches, but many Ubuntians are impatient and would prefer to install the latest version of Firefox from Mozilla and use that instead of the Ubuntu build of Firefox. Unfortunately, you cannot find .deb package on Mozilla's website, there are some other methods to install released ...

Google logos

Google is one of the most popular search engines for surferz. Instead of going directly to google page, we are used to typing keywords on our browser search engine option, which is normally located on top right hand side. Unfortunately we are missing google's creativity. Yes, mostly in their home page, they used to keep different logos according to different occasions. In case if you missed any of those creative logos, still you can find them here. www.google.com/logos or go to search option type "google holiday" without quotation mark. Now, you can be able to see Holiday Logos and Events ...

I hope you know, I’m an Ubuntian (Ubuntu user). So, I seldom write Windows specific posts like CCleaner – the tool I recommend to Windows users, but now I’m going to introduce a tool which is useful for Windows users only. While surfing...

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Installing Multiple Versions of Opera in Ubuntu

What is your preferred browser? For me, it’s Opera. Opera browser is my default web browser & mail client. I always surf with beta & snapshot versions of Opera, but I don’t remove the stable version. I use Snapshot versions of Opera to surf & report...

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Removing applications from your Twitter and Facebook accounts

Most of the surferz are part of the social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Even you might be a member of either one or both of the popular sociable sites. We have plenty of third-party applications both desktop and web based for twitter and Facebook. Time by...

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Use google.com instead of country specific Google site

Google Search is customized for a number of countries and regions across the world. If you’re not living in the US, whenever you enter google.com in your browser, it’ll automatically, redirect to the country-specific Google site. For example, google.in provides...

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Do you’ve a Gmail id? Then, this post is for you only. Chances are pretty high that you are not the only one who is accessing your Gmail account. If your password is weak then your Email id could be easily compromised. Kindly go through my post Making of Strong Password...

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One of my friends, who is a web designer asked me how to install LAMP server in Ubuntu. Because he is recently switched to Ubuntu Desktop Edition and wanted to run a local server. So, I helped him to install the LAMP server with some extra customization. Now, I’m...

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Do you think Programming is a difficult task? No, it’s not. In Internet you can find many Programming resources because Some of Programmers used to sharing the code, techniques, progress of the software development & even they’re started to teach us via...

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Are you the one who is using Skype for chatting? If yes, then you are already familiar with emoticons. In case if you don’t know what are the emoticons means Emoticons are nothing but the little graphics (popularly known as smilies) that you can add to your chat...

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