Quick Tips

Xsticky Firefox Addon, keep yourself organized with Digital sticky notes.

Written on March 12th, 2010 at 05:24 am by shredder12

Xsticky is a really useful Firefox addon which lets you keep sticky notes for the webpages you visit. So, suppose you visit a wepage, had something in mind, just jot it down on the sticky note and the next time you visit the webpage, the note will be there. This addon is going to be a great help to me.

Firefox Addon: Fox Clocks

Written on February 8th, 2010 at 23:37 pm by shredder12

So, today I was hanging out at IRC, which I usually do and is totally awesome, a friend of mine, duanedesign, told me about this new Firefox addon, Fox Clocks, which lets you keep track of different timezones. The best part is that you can create watchlists for your different international friends and keep a better track of their sleeping and working timings. Let me show you how it works.

Gnome-open, open files and URLs from terminal easily

Written on January 7th, 2010 at 18:12 pm by shredder12

I mostly work on the command line. So, whenever I want an application to open a file I mostly do it running a command. But this requires you to know the name of the application which I can hardly remember, bad memory . But gnome guys have a solution for people like us. Its called gnome-open.

Fedora 12 Enable root login in GUI

Written on December 12th, 2009 at 20:27 pm by chia

Fedora 12 uses pam module called pam_succeed_if.so. This module is designed to succeed or fail authentication based on characterstics of the account of the authenticated user. Default configuration of this module blocks root login using GUI.

ThreadVis, Thunderbird addon

Written on December 5th, 2009 at 14:06 pm by shredder12

ThreadVis is a really useful Thunderbird addon which creates a small graphical visualization of the context(thread structure) of your current email. It makes switching among different associated threads really fast. The best part is the visualization which makes it easier to understand which mails were forwarded or replied.

Monitor your Disk Activity Reads/Writes using Iotop

Written on February 9th, 2010 at 20:35 pm by shredder12

Have you ever been in a situation when your system is freezed/terribly slow aka "what the hell is going on?" moment. This is probably the most frequent annoying thing that happens on computer. Whenever I face something like this I used to run top to catch the culprit but sometimes this is not the result of over occupied processor but because of constant hard disk access which are not visible with top most of the times. Well linuxers, now we have a solution to this problem, Iotop, a python coded brother of top.

Enable Alt-Shift-Tab shortcut in Ubuntu

Written on January 29th, 2010 at 13:32 pm by shredder12

While working I have a lot of windows open in each of my workspaces. Switching through them can be done easily using the usual <Alt>Tab shortcut but backward switching is disabled by default in Ubuntu. And its pretty hard to work with a lot of windows if you only have one-sided switching. In this tip I will tell you how to tweak your gnome settings to enable this feature.

A dpkg trick for fresh installations

Written on December 28th, 2009 at 18:00 pm by shredder12

After every fresh install, I used to download all the necessary packages that I had in the previous installation. This was definitely not easy, I could hardly remember half of them and it used to take a lot of time. But by using using dpkg we can do it in a few commands. Chk it out.

Make Firefox look like Chrome using Total Rechrome and Chromifox

Written on December 9th, 2009 at 23:14 pm by shredder12

There are some amazing firefox addons that you should try. This time I am going to tell you how to turn firefox into chrome (just looks ). Using the 2 firefox addons Chromifox and Totally Rechrome and some little bit tweaking around you can make your firefox look like chrome browser.

Google Phone Search

Written on November 28th, 2009 at 22:00 pm by shredder12

Google whenever and wherever you want. Now, you can even do a google search for restaurants info, flight status and movie timings on your phone(landline or mobile) by saying the keyword aka voice search. This feature is known as google phone search and is available in India.