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Add Google Chrome’s “New Tab” feature in firefox

We know Chrome is a light weight and fast browser from search giant Google. Apart from other features Chrome has one very nice feature of listing frequently visited sites thumbnails in every new tab. This saves time for typing a frequently visited URL every now than. Basically this idea was derived from another browser Opera.

WordPress: How to create a clean archives page

From the very first day when I started this blog, I was thinking of creating a nice archives page template manually. But unfortunately I didn’t get time since than. So, my blog had not archives page  until I came through SRG Clean Archives plugin for WordPress.

Analogue clock widgets for Windows XP

With Windows7 beta already out, Windows XP would be history sooner rather than later. But the fact is majority of Windows users are still stuck to this 8 year old operating system. Along other enhancements there is widget capability which makes Vista more beautiful, visually at least. One widget I specially like on Vista and [...]

Get rid of stupid “NoClassDefFoundError” in Ubuntu

We use a small Java application to monitor SMS services in our company. This client application connect to the server via internet, means I can monitor the services from anywhere. It was working fine both on Windows as well Ubuntu. Three days earlier when I was cleaning up some applications after Ubuntu File System got [...]

Configure POP3 & SMTP server settings for Windows Live Hotmail

Few weeks back Hotmail finally allowed its free users to use POP3 technology. Though it is limited to few countries(United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy & Holland), but they have plan to extend it to all users around the world towards the end of 2009. Recent failure against competitors specially gmail forced [...]

Download Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 3

A new version every six month is one of the joy of using Ubuntu. It is one of the frequently updated & upgraded linux. After releasing Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid, the developers quickly started to work for next scheduled release. And here we are, the new version Ubuntu 9.04′s Alpha 3 is now available for download.

8 beautiful Firefox3 themes

Firefox3 was released few months back. Though there are 100s of Firefox themes to choose from, but a lot of theme developers haven’t updated there themes to be compatible with this new Firefox version. However, there are still some beautiful themes that are updated and compatible with Firefox3. I have complied a small list of [...]

eMobilez Weekly: Omnia applications, Symbian 9.4, Nokia 97 & 5800 themes

Mobile phone users are steadily switching to smart phones released every week by different manufacturers. Samsung OMNIA is new in the line. It has many stunning features along its 5MP camera as well compatibility for applications designed for Windows Mobile 6.1. We bring you Omnia applications for free download. Some more updates are as follow: [...]

VOA Urdu opted for Nastaleeq Urdu font

Voice of America(VOA) is one of the largest International broadcasting service of the world. It has an estimated 134 million audience worldwide. So, naturally there web presence get more attention than any other ordinary news site. It’s British counterpart BBC is on top among all Broadcasting services in terms of radio & web audience.. VOA [...]

Download Foxit Reader 3.0: A small yet feature rich PDF reader

Adobe Acrobat may be the industry leader for PDF documents but it has some drawbacks. It has ever increasing set-up file size, installation get time consuming with every release & last but not the least, it captures a fair amount of memory.