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This small tip is for “people who are not aware of Turbo feature in wordpress dashboard” only.
Turbo is a feature that lets you to store your entire wordpress dashboard aka the admin panel’s CSS/PHP and other core files locally on your computer, which enables faster navigation inside your wordpress dashboard. All this is done by using Google Gears. And (un)fortunately, Google Gears is only available for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. Just keep in mind that Turbo is available only from Wordpress 2.5 or so.
No doubt, this feature is a boon for people who are on a dialup connection or other slower connections. But it does take a while to install gears and download required files for the Turbo feature. But in my opinion, its good to wait few minutes instead waiting every time you want to do something.

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Yup, I finally started using Twitter from past few weeks and twitting every now and then.

Twitter is so fun, it keeps you in touch with your pals and other important people you like or hate

If you are new to twitter and wondering what it is, then Twitter is a MicroBlogging Platform which lets you post what you are doing in 140 characters as updates which is popularly known as “Tweets”. The people who follow you can read your tweets on time line page.

Twitter also has many interesting goodies like widgets and applications to keep tweeting. You can also use twitter on the move!

Anyway, come follow me on twitter!

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It’s been almost two months since I started using Ubuntu on day-to-day basis. Though I had Ubuntu 6.x installed on my computer from early 2007, I just never used to boot into it, but just used to upgrade to the latest version.

But, from the past two months, I have started using Ubuntu everyday and I’m pretty happy with it’s performance. But I still continue using Windows XP everyday because windows is my productivity corner which I use to design themes and templates with Dreamweaver CS3 and Fireworks CS3. I tried to use those two softwares in Ubuntu via Wine, but had no good luck and they didn’t run like in windows. Also, I still use windows to play games whilst I am free.

Now, myself I’ve considered Ubuntu as my learning curve. I would have not started using Ubuntu if 8.04 would’ve not supported my ZTE EVDO modem properly. In the earlier version of Ubuntu, like 7.04 and 7.10, I had to modprobe my device once in everytime I boot into Ubuntu and it was not comfortable for me. And also, the device was soon unrecognized and my internet connection was terminating with no good reasons. It was totally bad for me, who always stay online whenever I switch on my PC. And also, the earlier version didn’t allow me to connect my ZTE EVDO to an USB hub, which was another reason.

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There are many billionaires in the world, who make money all the time and has gained popularity out of their work, but not every billionaire does think of blogging. I bet you are still curious about to know who that billionaire is.

He is none other than the co-founder of Google.com, Sergey Brin.

Yeah, I know you can’t wait to visit his blog right now, you will be quite dazzled about his blog address and tittle. Anyway, sergey has posted why his blog is named as “too”, in his first post.

Visit: too.blogspot.com

If you think this thing is a fake, no it isn’t. Matt Cutts has confirmed about sergey’s blog in his blog over here.

You can notice some custom modifications done here and there to the blogger platform especially to him. For instance, if you want to post a comment, you get a complete moded popup dialog with a quote made by sergey.

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Sorry for not posting lately. I was quite busy with my real life rituals.

Anyway, I bought a new wireless combo for my desktop today and thought of blogging it. I am not interested in writing any reviews for this thing, coz there are already enough reviews available on this particular model. But yet, I like to post my user experience as of now. This is entry level wireless combo that most people can afford easily. In fact, it’s much more than a entry level combo. There are plenty of features that will sure impress you.

I bought this combo for 1,850 Rs (including tax) here in Bangalore at S.P Road.

So far so good, I am having a good experience. The ergonomics is really good. The mouse is bit large compared to my old Wired 500. It is large coz it houses two AA batteries inside it. It’s also heavy coz of the same reason, but you won’t find any issues with the weight, because it is large and fits in your palm very comfortably.

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The article you are about to read may contain things that can hurt you mentally, if you are an over-sensitive guy/gal and especially if you are an OSS Maniac! So think before reading.

When it comes to the world of Software development, the field is blooming on one side and fading on the other side. The software industry has become a integral part of our life in this modern world. So we require most kinds of softwares for our personal usage as well as business purposes, like Operating Systems to Instant Messengers and basic image editors to fully loaded 3D Designing software.

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Phew! One of the coolest news I’ve ever read!

I found this news from VOA News. And here’s an excerpt:

India is getting into the business of launching satellites, giving rise to a new space race. The country’s space program recently put 10 small satellites in orbit, all in one go, an achievement topped only by Russia. The launch signaled India’s desire to capture a larger share of the global commercial satellite launch market - a $90-billion-a-year industry that, so far, has been dominated by the U.S. and Russia. Raymond Thibodeaux reports from Bangalore, India’s space agency headquarters.

Read on…

Now, this is a new rocket launching business for Indian Govt

Santhosh

I started to feel a strange kinda pain at the back of my head from yesterday night. A soft pain at the right side of my back head. Just beside my right ear. Yesterday night, I thought it could be some small problem and will be alright when I wake up in the morning. And it was kinda okay in the morning. But after sometime, the pain appeared once again. The pain isn’t hurting me too much, but it makes me not to do anything for a long time in a same gesture. It keeps paining.. Softly.. Weird.

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Err.. I had a bad Sunday today. Everyday, as soon as I wake up, I check for new mails on the bed from my Opera Mini. I did the same today and was excited to see a new mail regarding the release of myBB 1.4 Bulletin Board Software. I was waiting for the release from past 8 months. Well yes it’s the major release. And was also excited to upgrade my BSNL EVDO CLUB Forum.

As soon as I completed all my daily morning rituals, I started the FileZilla FTP Client and connected to the server. All set… Read the documents…. And finally started the upload process. It was 750+ Files and 6 MB upload. Just after few minutes, my ISP went down. Almost 2 MB (150+) files were uploaded. After 30 minutes, ISP was up, and resumed the upload process. My net connection was really bad at that moment, yet it was pretty good. Have a look at the below screenshot. My ZTE EVDO app is highlighted in the screenshot, notice: it has no signal bars!

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No, its not a joke. Its a program called “Name in Space”. Your name will be stored on DVD and will be sent along with the Kepler to the space!

Kepler mission is NASA’s first mission to find the planets that are Earth-Sized. And also it orbits around other stars in our galaxy.

Or you can read the excerpt from the official site:

Kepler is NASA’s first mission capable of detecting Earth-size and smaller planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. The spacecraft is planned to be launched from Kennedy Space Center in February 2009. The spacecraft will be launched into orbit around the Sun, not the Earth, with an orbital period of 372 days. The spacecraft will slowly drift away from the Earth, such that in about 25 years it will be half an Earth orbit away, 300 million kilometers distant from the Earth, passing behind the Sun as viewed from Earth.

This mission is an attempt to find life on some planet, just like the UFOs visiting us, now we are visiting them :p

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