Managing favorites in Internet Explorer

If you are like me, you keep accumulating favorites or bookmarks for your browser. Periodically, all these favorites need some housekeeping. Some will be obsolete and need deletion, others will need to be rearranged. Unfortunately, trying to manage your favorites through the Internet Explorer function, “Organize Favorites”, is a pain. In a previous post, I [...]

PHP send email using authenticated smtp server in real time

PHP has mail() function to send an email to users. However this mail() will not work:
=> If sendmail (or compatible binary) is not installed
=> If Apache Web server / Lighttpd running in chrooted jail
=> And your smtp server needs an authentication before sending an email
In all these cases you need to use PHP PEAR’s Mail:: [...]

Critical ActiveX problem for Internet Explorer PDF reader

Here we go with yet another ActiveX security hole. Adobe has warned that the ActiveX component that is used to help Internet Explorer read PDF documents contains a critical security bug. Firefox and other browsers are not affected because they do not use ActiveX. As of this writing, Adobe was still working on a fix [...]

Difference between KDE and Gnome Desktop systems

Often new Linux desktop user get confused about KDE and Gnome Desktop system. This guide tries to provide the basic differences between KDE and Gnome.
From the article:
This is not, by any means a comprehensive look at the differences between KDE and Gnome, but it should give new users a small taste of their different [...]

Fix a dual boot Windows Vista and Linux problem

How do you fix a dual boot system if you had to reinstall Windows Vista and you can no longer boot to Fedora Core 6 (FC6)? Nobody wants to reinstall FC 6 again!
Almost all versions of Microsoft Windows (including XP, Vista and old versions) overwrite GRUB bootloader in MBR (master boot record). As a result [...]

Some Tips On Speeding Up Torrent Speeds

Many people out there suffer from slow downloads through the torrent network. Many times they do not realize that there are ways to improve those slow speeds. Simple tweaks can be done to optimize your current speeds.
If you are on a dialup line wishing to download using Bittorrents, then you’re simply out of luck. Here [...]

FareCompare - Never Overpay for Airfare Again

EarthTimes: FareCompare today released FareFirst, an airfare tracking tool for the popular Firefox browser. Available only to Firefox users, FareFirst automatically notifies consumers as soon as fares change in markets of interest, giving them a leg up on purchasing airline tickets at the lowest possible price.
This version supports international travel as well as within US [...]

Download and install an RPM file on fly from ftp or http server

Many books or free Linux tech support recommends downloading an RPM file using wget and installing it using rpm command. For example to install awstats rpm:
Go to /tmp directory
$ cd /tmp
Download awstats using wget
$ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/awstats/awstats-6.5-1.noarch.rpm
Now install awstats
$ sudo rpm -ivh awstats*OR# rpm -ivh awstats*
To be frank you can skip all three steps with one [...]

VMware Converter: Turn your computer into a virtual machine

So you want to upgrade to Vista or Linux but still have your old Windows install–the whole thing, apps, settings and all–available? That’s just one of the scenarios in which VMware Converter could be extremely useful. It’s a free beta app from VMware that makes it supremely easy to take your current system and turn [...]

Better tabs in Firefox 2

I find the default behavior of tabs in Firefox 2 to be troublesome. Here is what the default tab bar looks like when you have more tabs open than will fit in the screen (click for full size image):

As you can see, the close tab button is only visible in the active tab. So if [...]

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