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08/04/2013

If you are regularly using IRC, you definitely appreciate having any idea about what's behind a posted URL before clicking on it. Prime examples for that are YouTube links, and Short URLs. This XChat script can be used on any platform where XChat or HexChat run as well, is written in Perl, and is as efficient as possible, only fetching as much from a relevant URL as necessary for determining a possible website title.

12/03/2013

If you are looking for a way to vastly improve the look of the new Ubuntu Forums setup, introduced with the switch to vBulletin 4 two weeks ago, a couple of days ago I've created a new "Stylish" style for that, and silently sneaked it into our earlier post done upon the previous design change of the Ubuntu Forums in May last year.

An official test build of Jelly Bean for Galaxy S2 was released yesterday. Any existing CF-Root kernel doesn't seem to w...
16/11/2012

An official test build of Jelly Bean for Galaxy S2 was released yesterday. Any existing CF-Root kernel doesn't seem to work with this new build so flashing those rooting kernels won't help at all. Here is a simple tutorial on how to root this new build:

Since quite some time, we have been hearing that our beloved Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone will be receiving official Jel...
16/11/2012

Since quite some time, we have been hearing that our beloved Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone will be receiving official Jelly Bean update near the end of November this year and now we actually have a leaked test build code-named I9100XXLSJ. This build was leaked yesterday by XDA member izap. This confirms that official Kies update is on the way to our S2 phones. Those, like me, who can't wait for the official update can flash this leaked firmware and benefit from the all the goods of Jelly Bean even before it is officially released.

14/08/2012

You may or may not regularly use one of those handy Pastebin sites to easily post any text/script you want to share in a support forum or, more common, on IRC. To do that, without having to enter all the stuff manually on their respective websites, there is the equally lightweight and handy command line tool Pastebinit, but if you want to post a file directly from your file browser, there is no easy way to do that. So I've written a Nautilus script that makes use of Pastebinit and queries a couple of possible options before posting the selected file on 'pastebin.com', as of now, still the Pastebin with the most features, while also looking good, as far as I've checked at least.

15/07/2012

Aside from the common, and way less detrimental, option to auto-login to your desktop, you may easily be tempted to think that logging in without password query is a good idea - well, it is not, as you may have learned already. It's only useful under very narrow, unusual conditions, otherwise it will either not let you change the desktop session option anymore, or lock you out of your desktop completely. This is how to re-enable the password query on login, or if all conditions are actually met, how to disable it.

The first release candidate of CyanogenMod 9.0 which is based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has been released. It is...
28/06/2012

The first release candidate of CyanogenMod 9.0 which is based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has been released. It is available for 37 devices officially, for now, and support for various other devices will be added later. The development cycle took almost 8 months since Android 4.0 was made available in the AOSP repositories by Google. The CyanogenMod team hasn't yet announced a final release date for CM9 stable.

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux Kernel, showed his anger towards Nvidia in a recent interview with Aalto Center...
19/06/2012

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux Kernel, showed his anger towards Nvidia in a recent interview with Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) in Otaniemi. He said that Nvidia was one of the worst companies the Linux community has ever dealt with. He was so annoyed that he went on to say "Nvidia, F**k You!" when a question concerning Nvidia support under Linux was imposed by a lady.

Lightspark is another open source Flash player, mainly focusing Linux but it can also be compiled for Windows. Lightspar...
25/05/2012

Lightspark is another open source Flash player, mainly focusing Linux but it can also be compiled for Windows. Lightspark 0.5.7 was released a couple of days ago and it aims to improve graphic capabilities. Other changes include...

For the regular Unity (3D), compiz can draw window previews for both minimized and maximized windows in the Unity Launch...
19/05/2012

For the regular Unity (3D), compiz can draw window previews for both minimized and maximized windows in the Unity Launcher by hovering the mouse over the respective icon.

The overall theme and appearance of the official Ubuntu Forums was revamped recently to match the current Ubuntu brandin...
19/05/2012

The overall theme and appearance of the official Ubuntu Forums was revamped recently to match the current Ubuntu branding. Now, it features quite a heavy, orange coloured header, orange coloured navigation bar and a Ubuntu-branded element set. While there are many who are amazed by the new looks of Ubuntu Forums, there are quite a few who don't like this shiny, glowing look. For the unsatisfied one's, Firefox's 'Stylish' add-on might prove helpful.

The Chief Minister of Punjab, the biggest province of Pakistan by population, is carrying on a laptop donation scheme fo...
13/05/2012

The Chief Minister of Punjab, the biggest province of Pakistan by population, is carrying on a laptop donation scheme for students studying in government colleges/universities that come under the control of Punjab Educational Board. The good news is, all of these laptops come with Ubuntu pre-installed.

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