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Pulseaudio lives upto the expectations..
After months of naughtiness, Pulseaudio seems to settling in nicely in Karmic Beta. Everything stable, no glitches, twitches, CPU usages back to depths of lowness Always knew pulseaudio has network ac… more →
Ubuntu, Life, Mobiles, Music, Movies, iPod and Ofcourse Windows!
Pulseaudio lives upto the expectations..
Kx wrote 1 month ago: After months of naughtiness, Pulseaudio seems to settling in nicely in Karmic Beta. Everything stabl … more →
Use single mouse/keyboard for multiple computers.
Kx wrote 1 month ago: The cool thing is called synergy. The windows version has a great GUI to get you started. Here … more →
Gmail chat tips and tricks round up ....
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Kx wrote 1 year ago: Lets do some Gmail Tips and hacks round up today. Mostly about gmail chat and other unknown features … more →
Change default remote desktop port from 3389 to something else.
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Kx wrote 1 year ago: You can easily change the default remote desktop port from 3389 to something else by browsing to fol … more →
VirtualBox - Shrink your VDI images. Image size = Space used up inside VM.
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Kx wrote 1 year ago: Often when you install a VM in virtualbox you’ll notice that initial size of the VM image woul … more →
General Updates, Control that bandwidth looter. "trickle" them. Play your favourite shoutcast stream while your torrents download happily in background.
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Kx wrote 1 year ago: Back after a long time. Will provide some general updates and introduce you to this fine little cuty … more →
Adblock Plus in Firefox Beta 5.
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Kx wrote 1 year ago: If you guys would have noticed, Ad block plus doesn’t work in Firefox beta 5, even on setting … more →
Firefox beta 4, Upgrade now + run all your incompatible extensions : extensions.checkCompatibility = false
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Kx wrote 1 year ago: Firefox 3 beta 4 was just released. I have been upgrading without waits and have been running the gr … more →
Cron and crontab, The easy, powerful and useful scheduler.
Kx wrote 1 year ago: Being on hardy, I had developed this evil habit of “sudo apt-get update” which I ‘ … more →
mp3splt - Split radio shows, online shows with cue sheets.
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Kx wrote 1 year ago: Ever stuck with those big 200 mb shows, or single track CDs and felt bored of browsing through enti … more →
Music Encoders, Formats, bitrates(VBR,CBR,ABR), codecs - LAME, OGG Vorbis, AAC.
Kx wrote 1 year ago: High bitrates have become the fashion statement these days. Often you search for music online, you … more →
My new Camera - Canon A570IS, The fun begins.
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Kx wrote 1 year ago: So I got my first decent camera 2 days back. I still remember the days when I got my first webcam/di … more →
Local DNS caching - pdnsd. Reduce name resolutions times. Run your own caching DNS server. And there's something about OpenDNS.
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Kx wrote 1 year ago: Often, I find, You hit a website and you see “Looking up www.zzzzz.com” in status bar. T … more →
Proxy Hacks - Final. HTTPTunnel. Tunnel TCP / IP connections over plain old HTTP GET and POST requests.
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Kx wrote 1 year ago: This is the final post in Proxy Hack series. This post is about the most robust approach for by pass … more →
Proxify any application. Tsocks and proxychains. Force any program to communicate through a SOCKS, HTTP(S) proxy. And how to use cascading proxies.
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Kx wrote 2 years ago: How many times have you found applications not having proper proxy support. Or sometimes, they suppo … more →
Proxy hacks - IV. On Demand. Installing a web based proxy (phproxy) at your home. Install something like kproxy.com. Useful for almost all blocked websites.
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Kx wrote 2 years ago: I am back from a small vacation, from a beach place called GOA. It was just amazing. Today we learn … more →
Gone in 15 seconds... My neighbour's WEP key
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Kx wrote 2 years ago: Hi, Its 5:55 am, Office @ 9:30 am. But lemme sleep with a smile. Here’s my neighbour’s ( … more →
Combine two connections (Wifi or ethernet) for a single torrent download. Listen to streaming audio and download side by side. Routing through multiple uplinks.
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Kx wrote 2 years ago: Hi, So my friend was out on weekend, and I had two spare/live connections (256kbps) at my disposal. … more →
Ubuntu, Windows - Limit CPU usage. Control that bully. + Ipod tip.
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Kx wrote 2 years ago: I do a lot of video and audio conversion for my Ipod. And almost aways, my conversion program (ffmpe … more →
