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I rarely promote commercial products in this blog for a variety of reasons. However, every now and then I come across a software product that I am just too excited about to not mention it.

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I will be collecting here some nifty tidbits that have helped me make my Ubuntu installation more fun to use. In case of very long console commands, quotations are used to emphasize that the command is one long command, even if the blog template splits it into several lines. Do not include the quotations when [...]

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Read It Later

September 17, 2009

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Every now and then I come across a Firefox plug-in that I just have to tell people about. This time it’s one called Read It Later. This nifty add-on allows you to temporarily bookmark a web page with just one-click to a list of sites you want to visit at a later time.

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Craigslist has become a very popular site over the years for buying and selling goods and services without having to fork over money for advertising fees. Unfortunately, as it turns out, this same service is being actively used by spammers for harvesting the site’s users’ email addresses. Here’s how it works.

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Windows 7 has a release date! Now that we are getting so close to an official release, it is prudent to start collecting info on little tips and tweaks that people have come across when testing the beta and the release candidate versions.

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