Archive for April, 2008
How to download songs as MP3 from Muxtape?
Muxtape created waves recently. Muxtape is a site that allows you to upload around 12 songs and share them with others easily. You can sort your songs and create playlists and share your Muxtape URLs with others. You can easily go to a Muxtape URL, click on a song and begin listening.
Ubuntu 8.04 – How to Setup the World Clock Applet?
Ubuntu Hardy Heron sports an improved system clocks applet that now supports viewing of time in multiple locations. Further, the clock applet on Ubuntu 8.04 can also give you Weather details about the location. This new feature may come really handy for some users that work with distant bosses who’re in a different timezone 
In case you’re wondering how to tap the full potential of the improved world clock tool in Ubuntu 8.04, here’s a quick, step-by-step walk through on how you can go about using it.
Five Softwares to Install in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron [Recommendation]
The much-awaited 8.04 version of the Ubuntu Desktop named ‘Hardy Heron’ was released yesterday. I downloaded the 699 MB ISO and managed to install it today. There have been really worthy improvements. We can only hope that this latest version brings a lot of users into the Linux World.
Ubuntu comes with functional and free software for all your needs, but still I’d like to recommend you the following five software that’ll make it even more better:
How to convert files to PDF using OpenOffice?
OpenOffice comes with a little inbuilt tool that lets you convert your documents and create PDF files out of them. OpenOffice lets you import many types of documents, including .doc files created by Microsoft Word, so it’s possible for you to convert not just the files made by OpenOffice.org to PDF format, but also those created by other office suites like MS Office.
Generate Lorem Ipsum Text in Microsoft Word
If you’re working on MS Word and need to insert a sample piece of pseudo text to demonstrate something, there’s a quick way to do so. Just by typing in a command and pressing enter, you can fill up your document with sample, lorem ipsum paragraphs easily.
Here’s how:
How to download Flickr Videos?
Flickr recently allowed pro users to upload videos to their site. Videos are normally of good quality on Flickr, and you might want to download and save them to your local hard disk. If you want to download videos from Flickr, you could try the following methods:
Killer Domains eBook
Daniel the blogging tips guru has released his first ebook ‘Killer Domains – Tools and Techniques To Find The Perfect Domain Name’.
Thank You, Fellow Bloggers
Darren declared today as Blogger Appreciation Day, and I think it’s a great way to acknowledge other fellow bloggers and the support that they’ve rendered to the growth of my blogs.
So, in no definite order here goes a list of my very close friends in the blogiverse who’ve always offered their kind help to me!
Run Internet Explorer and Firefox without Addons
If you’ve run into a problem with an IE addon, and want to be able to use Internet Explorer as usual, you can disable the addons and run Internet Explorer without any addons.
Distraction-Free Writing Environment With Q10
This is a guest post by Sumesh (see end of this post for details about him)
Writing quickly and efficiently (without compromising on quality) is one of the challenges that every writer faces (blogger in this specific example). Computers can be notorious in causing distractions, what with all the hundreds of desktop applications, various websites/services and music.
