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How To: Save yourself from stupid Tech Support Questions

September 25, 2009

Almost every other geek is pwned by his friends or people he/she knows by their stupid tech support questions. And sometime they drag you to the limits that you get frustrated enough to shoot yourself and bang your head onto your computer screen How on earth can someone be so stupid But luckily I found [...]

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How To: New Mail Notification

September 17, 2009

mbooth commented on one of my last post (How To: GNOME GMail Notifier) informing that he/she uses mail-notification. I was curious to check it out for mail via IMAP and I found it way more useful as compared to Gnome Gmail Notifier. I especially like the option to configure it to check the mails every [...]

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How To: GNOME GMail Notifier

September 9, 2009

GNOME GMail (Google GMail) Notifier is an awesome tool for GNOME/Linux users if you are addicted to checking mails every few minutes. GMail Notifier solves a bit of your problems by notifying about multiple gmail accounts. One more plus point is that it can display GMail Notifications for new mails in accounts for which you [...]

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MSN Crawlers Pawned

July 29, 2009

After seeing the way MSN crawled my last post, I just realized why Microsoft could never do good in Search Engine Market I wonder why MSN would crawler same page from two different machines. I wonder if a single page can be divided further for crawling. Checkout the screenshots below A few minutes later. Three [...]

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Google Translator Pawned

July 29, 2009

Well, I was getting bored and just googled my domain name. As I was browsing through the search results, I clicked on a Spanish site containing the word gofedora. I clicked on google’s “Translate this page” and was surprised by the result. Watch it yourself below. PS : Direct link for translated website. PS2 : [...]

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Crack: Google Authentication Services are Vulnerable

December 5, 2008

There is a vulnerability in the way Google authentication service works. Whenever you login to any of the Google’s online services like GMail, Orkut, Groups, Docs, Youtube, Calendar etc., you are redirected to an authentication server which authenticates against the entered username and password and redirect back to the required service (GMail, Youtube etc.) setting [...]

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Google is Fastest

November 13, 2008

While testing a piece of code for my squid plugin, I ended up changing permissions of /tmp/ directory to 0755. A few minutes later (after making changes to the code), I tried committing it to fedorapeople.org and got this error 1 2 3 4 5 6 [project@bordeaux youtube_cache]$ git push –all ssh://kulbirsaini@fedorapeople.org/~kulbirsaini/public_git/youtube_cache.git Enter passphrase for [...]

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Info: Spicebird 0.7 Pre with Awesome Features

November 11, 2008

Spicebird is your one platform for many collaboration needs. It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with intuitive integration and unlimited extensibility. Spicebird beta 0.7 pre release is out now and can be downloaded in 10 languages from the i10n nightly build archive. For the latest nightly build of English version, check this English nightly [...]

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