How to Configure Gnome Keyboard Shortcuts

January 2nd, 2009 Do you frequently need a calculator for applications you do in your Windows? Do you find it annoying enough to hunt down the audio recorder every time from the Start Menu? -Well don't worry. You have used Windows+E to launch the explorer, now you will do it for all the appications too.

January 19th, 2009 Managing the Windows was always easy like nothing. As expected, I found things have turned even more facile with Windows 7.

April 11th, 2007 Today while setting up and trying new application I found that one of the Gnome panels containing Applications, Places and System menu (taskbar for Windows users) wasn't displaying. After restarting the Gnome session I found an error message along the lines of: Error panel already running will exit panel.

March 17th, 2009 My friend was merging some changes in a large Microsoft word document the other day. He opened the the BASE MS Word document (the document where the changes were originally made from) and then used the Compare and Merge Documents… functionality (located under the Tools Menu) to compare it to the document that had the new changes.

April 5th, 2008 On running ./configure in dansguardian (web content filter for Linux), I got the following error - configure: error: pcre-config not found!configure: WARNING: Cache variable ac_cv_prog_PCRE contains a newline.. The solution, as usual, is simple: Install pcre-devel.

April 29th, 2007 I needed to run Synergy server for my triple monitor setup at startup of Gnome session. crontab isn't going to help here.

January 19th, 2009 As soon as Windows 7 is launched, we are at it to make things convenient as much as possible. The other day we wrote an article on 20 Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts which you must have found fruitful.

April 5th, 2008 A common error while configuring (running ./configure) software in Linux systems is - error: C++ compiler cannot create executables. The solution, not surprisingly is simple: Install the package which adds C++ support to the GNU Compiler Collection - gcc-c++.

June 24th, 2008 GMail overall has a nice spam filter. You can leverage the GMail spam filtering capability even for your corporate emails without paying a dime.

August 19th, 2008 In earlier versions of Db4o we used Db4o.configure() to configure all Db4o database globally (across all ObjectContainer). However in 7.2 (and above) versions of Db4o Db4o.configure() has been deprecated and it is suggested to use Db4o.newConfiguration() instead.

April 10th, 2007 XMemo is an alternative to IPMsg (for Windows only) and claims to interoperate with IPMSg protocol. In short a quick messaging tool for intranet use.

April 30th, 2007 To monitor CPU temperature in Linux you will need to install lm_sensors package and then install gnome-applet-sensors (assuming you are using gnome) to get a nice graphical display. The devil is in the details.

December 29th, 2008 Windows 7 beta is launched. If you haven't yet had a look at the Windows 7 Beta, here is our article to help you with that.

September 3rd, 2008 Like GMail Chrome allows really useful shortcuts. Some of my favorites are: You can drag a link between tabs to open the link in a new tab in the specified position on the tab strip.

September 19th, 2008 Gone are the days of buggy, infection prone and troublesome Internet Explorer. The popular product on which I want to throw some light on, needs no introduction.