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Set Twitter Tweet as status message in Pidgin!!!

While browsing the net you would have heard about Twitter. Twitter is basically another name for micro blogging. In twitter you just have to sign up, then update a single line(“what you are currently doing?”) whenever you can. Its just so simple, no fuss about making a profile or writing down about the movies you …
Green Verticale Line’s while playing movies in VLC!!!

Sometimes while playing movies or videos in VLC you may have noticed that green vertical bar comes up on the video and the color of the video gets distorted. I didn’t know at first what causes it but after playing around with it a little i found out that Xgl causes these line to come …
Installing Adobe Air and its applications on Ubuntu 8.10!!!

Adobe AIR Environment is one of the hottest new technology around, it allows us to easily create cross platform Internet rich applications and widget that are Internet ready. To install Adobe AIR on Ubuntu 8.10 follow these steps.. Open Terminal window from (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal ) and issue the following command in the …
Tricks for Ubuntu!!!

Here are some great Ubuntu secrets… Open the terminal and type: 1. apt-get moo 2. aptitude help 3. aptitude moo 4. aptitude -v moo 5. aptitude -vv moo 6. aptitude -vvv moo 7. aptitude -vvvv moo 8. aptitude -vvvvv moo 9. aptitude -vvvvvv moo Enjoy the responses.. Try this : Press alt+f2 under GNOME, and …
Python Script for Cricket Score!!!

Here’s a script that i wrote to get the latest cricket score without visiting the site. It’s a python script that makes use of rediff scores. import urllib class Score(object): SCORE_URL = “” def __init__(self): self.vars = {} # dictionary variables read from the score file def refresh(self): “”"Refresh the score”"” url_opener = urllib.URLopener() url …
Compress Pictures In Linux(Modified)!!!

I got the script to move the new compressed images into a new folder that would be located in your home folder. As i explained before you need imagemagick installed on your system to run the script. In ubuntu it can be installed by typing in the terminal sudo apt-get install imagemagick Heres the script …
Compress Pictures In Linux!!!

I have made a script to compress a set of images so that they can be mailed as images taken form a digicam are normally of 10 or 15MB and to upload a set of images is a pain in the ***. Firstly you need to install package Imagemagick… In ubuntu you can install by …
Pidgin gives error for google accounts!!!

I faced a lot of problems with my Google account in pidgin while trying to connect to Google talk. It used to get “timed out” sometimes and other times used to give a “connection error”. While browsing the web i found the solution at gtalk support site. The solution that worked for me was : …
How to convert chm files to pdf in linux!!!

CHM stands for Microsoft Compiled HTML Help. I really don’t like to use chm files(as it is a proprietary format). While surfing the net i found a google code to convert chm into pdf. I’ll show t=you how to install the python code and convert a file now : Firstly download the package from the …
How to make Dell XPS eject button work in Ubuntu!!!

The eject button on top of the keyboard does not work out of the box in ubuntu. To solve this issue : Just type in the terminal : sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf And add the following lines at the end # Unlock the CDROM eject button dev.cdrom.lock=0 Now reboot and try. Leave a comment if any …

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