Monthly Archives: May 2008

GMail Manager with hosted accounts

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Arun

I use GMail Manager add-on for Firefox to access my 5 emails I have under Google’s hosted accounts. For some reason, GMail Manager stopped working with hosted accounts for the past couple of weeks. GMail Manager team has released a … Continue reading →

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KDE 4.1 Beta 1 released

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Arun

KDE team has released 1st beta of KDE 4.1. This beta includes Greatly expanded desktop shell functionality and configurability KDE Personal Information Management suite ported to KDE 4 Dragon Player, the lightweight media player, makes its debut. The KDE CD … Continue reading →

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Kill people, but don’t spoil the environment?

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Arun

Environmentally friendly bombs on the way.

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Funny headlines

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Arun

I was reading news just now when i came across these funny headlines from CNN.

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Skype Microphone problem and complete pulse audio setup in Ubuntu

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Arun

Update for Ubuntu 9.10: With Ubuntu 9.10, based on my experience, sounds work at the same time for multiple devices. If you have Ubuntu 9.10 and Skype 2.1 beta, all you have to do to get the microphone to work … Continue reading →

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Microsoft to support ODF in Office 2007 SP2

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Arun

In a welcome move, Microsoft is finally adding support to Open Document Format (ODF) and Adobe‘s PDF format to Microsoft Office 2007. This support will be released as part of Office 2007 service pack 2. Microsoft is also bringing back … Continue reading →

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Laugh at people if they say Vista is secure

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Arun

According to an analysis from ThreatFire, 58,000 PCs running Vista were compromised by at least one piece of malware over the six months to May 2008, equivalent to 27 percent of all Vista machines probed. In total, Vista suffered 121,380 … Continue reading →

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Steve Ballmer egged

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Arun

Watch this video where a student threw eggs at Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when Ballmer was delivering his speech at Corvinus University, Budapest. It was funny, but that’s not the way you treat people. The student also wore a T-Shirt … Continue reading →

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Moonlight (Silverlight for Linux) released

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Arun

Mono, an open source project sponsored by Novell has released Moonlight 0.6 with profile 1.0 and profile 2.0. Moonlight profile 1.0 is based on Silverlight v1.0 and Moonlight profile 2.0 is based on Silverlight v2.0. Silverlight is Microsoft‘s answer to … Continue reading →

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CBS to buy CNet

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Arun

CBS Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire CNET Networks, Inc. CBS will make a cash tender offer for all issued and outstanding shares of CNET Networks for $11.50 per share, representing an equity value of approximately $1.8 billion. … Continue reading →

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