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Display Reminders In Gnome Panel
It was a long standing requirement of mine to create a reminder software or something which can keep me reminding of things as I always keep forgetting things. So I made a reminder that displays my reminders on the Gnome Panel. It looks something like thi …
Automatic Desktop Wallpaper Changer for Linux
I have a lot of wallpaper that I wanted to switch automatically. After a lot of search i found that there a command way to control all the gnome settings. So I the command I used is “gconftool-2″. So code is like: [bash] #!/bin/bash folder="/h …
Birthday Reminder For Gnome Panel
This program checks the file /home/rsrijith/shell/birthday_reminder.txt to find the upcoming birthdays in 20 days and writes into the file /home/rsrijith/shell/birthdays. There is a file called /home/rsrijith/shell/birthdays1, the difference between it an …
Find Invisible Users In Gmail
Finding who is invisible is something that I always wanted to do.It’s always fun to ping a person who feels none can see him/her online. While studying XMPP protocol I found out that even when the person is offline the chat client knows that person is onli …
Tab Feature in Vim
Vim is one of the simplest looking but most powerful editor I have seen. So thought of listing a few interesting one that I came across. Tab Opening of Files. There are two methods of starting files in tabs. By opening vi the files you want to op …
Google Buzz Bug-Weird Comments
Google has come up with new feature in Gmail called Google Buzz. I saw a few of the privacy concerns on the initial week it came itself and it was said all this concerns have been fixed by the weekend itself.So I was trying it out and how it works when I n …
Restoring the Grub after reinstalling Windows
After reinstalling windows or fixing MBR(Master Boot Record) you always loose your grub and you cannot boot to your linux. So this post is about the methods of restoring the grub. There are three methods I use. I will explain all three. All three meth …
Web page Performance for a Blog – Part 1
I have always under the notion that page performance for big websites or websites that have a sole server and various resources like CDN and load balancers. So I wanted to know if this is true. I set out to try web page performance my blog. I just wanted t …
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