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August 2010

Windows Live Writer Equivalent in Ubuntu.

Blogging has today become very common. Persons from all walks of life blog today. While most of bloggers resort to Windows Live Writer while working on Windows OS but Linux users are not that lucky. There is certainly no comparable equivalent in real terms as far WLW is concerned but there are many alternatives which can [...]

Run Wine on Ubuntu for Windows Applications.

Wine makes you run Windows software programs on Linus OS like Ubuntu. Wine is still under development and there are many millions of people who have installed Wine on their computers. Wine 1.2 is a stable edition while Wine 1.3 is still under Beta. There are many applications which are listed under Platinum, Gold and [...]

Discipline Your Online Hours.

Are your online hours best utilized? How many hours do you surf aimlessly? Present day generation is grappling with a common ailment now which relates to information overdose. Most of  the time we are online, spending hours and hours in front of laptops, smart phones and of course hardtops. How much of our online hours [...]

RSS Feeds for MS OUTLOOK

RSS or the Really Simple Syndication feeds are generally employed by media outlets and web logs to display and distribute the content in standardized format. Standardized XML files help in publishing the content once and then distributing as many times as is required. There is one unique benefit of RSS which is aggregation of content from may [...]

FreeApps All Must-have Quality Free Apps in One Go.

Have you ever wished while setting up your new PC to have facility to download all quality Free Apps in one go while you relax. Whenever you set up your new PC, you have to reinstall all packages one by one. This is a very painful experience as software have to be first browsed, downloaded and then [...]

Energy through Waste Heat Recovery

Heavy industries like steel mills, paper mills and cement mills have by far the largest untapped potential for energy generation in the wasted heat they generate.This energy generally goes wasted as there very few mechanism to trap this heat. Even if mechanisms are there they have been found wanting in operation. Coal based power Plants [...]

Dictionary for Idioms.

IdiomDictionary has a domain name which exactly tells what the site does. Very rarely one can find a site which has a name which means what the website stands for. Site is repository of some 5000 odd idioms and their meanings. The meanings are well thought out, simple and concise.