Santhosh’s Blog

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!

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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