[How-to] Snow Plugin in Compiz-Fusion
After a long time’s search over the internet for many days I finally figured out how to do this. Many may know this already but many may not too. And since I hate to compile programs from sourceI have found here a method that involves less of actual compiling. Since am a ubuntu user [...]
My First Ubiquity Command: Lincr It!
By now, you must’ve heard of Ubiquity. If not, well read on!
Ubiquity is an add-on to Mozilla’s extremely popular Firefox browser. Ubiquity allows you to do things – say search for something, get the latest weather updates, book reviews, so on and so forth, just by typing the commands into the Ubiquity input box – [...]
WordPress Rolls Out 2.6.2 – Its A Mandatory This Time – And How
The good people over at WordPress released WordPress 2.6.2 today. And unlike the previous 2.6.1 release, this release is a mandatory release, to fix a loophole which occurs if your blog has registrations open.
From the horse’s mouth:
If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade. With open registration enabled, it is possible [...]
[How To]Automatically Backing Up And Upgrading Your WordPress Installation And WordPress Database
WordPress follows the Open Source policy of release early, release often. While this is a pretty good thing – you get fast releases to security exploits and loads of new features – but updating can be a rather problem, especially so if its something as important as your site’s CMS.
Fortunately Keith D’Souza has written a [...]
[How To] Chat With Your Facebook Buddies Using Pidgin
Recently, Facebook introduced Facebook chat – which allows you to chat with your Facebook friends in realtime similar to IM, as compared to post-message-on-wall-and-wait-for-replies kinda communication that Facebook users endured so far. A slight problem would be that to use this feature, users need to be logged in and be on Facebook’s site.
Not any more. [...]
