The little 'solutions' and work-arounds to solev problems and niggling issues with anything... From technology, to the cooking pot, and well maybe even the loo pot ;)
I was looking for Google Plus icons that I could use for a corporate website that I'm in the process of creating. A quick Google search gave produced some very interesting variations of the Google Plus icon, some along with source files. I am sure there a quite a few more but these were good for what I needed.
Here is a site that has collected an impressive collection of variations. Very nice if you are trying to create something new or just looking for some style references.
I installed Ubuntu (Maverick and then Natty) years later after having done my last Linux distro install.
I was gearing up to do a pile of modprob, insmod and such like at the CLI when to my surprise mobile internet using BOTH Tata and Reliance USB dongles were a breeze!
All I has to do was plugin the USB dongle (this example uses the Tata Photon on Natty aka Ubuntu 11.04) and the do the following...
Click on the network icon on the top right and click New Mobile Broadband Connection
This opens up a very simple dialogue box
I chose my location
This the lets me select Tata Photon Plus (and most of the other major providers). You do have the option of manually entering the details in case your operator is not mentioned here.
Next I need to enable mobile broadband after clicking the networking icon
After that if I just click on the installed internet connection, I am online...
I was suitably impressed since in Windows I'd have to install an app and use it to connect, that triggers popup browser windows that are a real pain. In Ubuntu all this was taken care of so hat even a relative newbie would be able to get up and running in a very short while.
If you search on the internet, you will find something called Adobe Reader Lite. This is nothing but a standard installation that has a number of features disabled to make the reader faster.
However, I prefer to install a standard Adobe package and then disabling things according to requirements. This way I am sure I am not downloading a trojan while retaining control over what I switch off.
Here is a good link that explains a couple of ways of doing this using freeware applications.
PDF Speedup works for Adobe Acrobat 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Adobe Reader 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and help you tweak the following:
Enable or disable the plug-ins as needed
Turn off all Updates featuresDisable the splash screen during program startupRemove the My eBooks folder created in My DocumentsTurn off the advertisements for Adobe products in the upper-right corner of the toolbarRemove PrintMe and Adobe Reader iconsDisable Browser IntegrationDisable confirmation dialog when closing Adobe ReaderBetter speed for LAN and Cable connectionClear Adobe Reader Recent Files HistoryRestore to original settings at any time
This is for all the people who use Blogger (like me)...
Google is doing interesting things with Blogger..
Blogger is now offering five 'dynamic views' for blogs. These views are only accessible if you (the blog author) allow it by sending out URLs like these:
Flipcard: - [yourblogURL]/view/flipcard
Mosaic: - [yourblogURL]/view/mosaic
Sidebar: - [yourblogURL]/view/sidebar
Snapshot: - [yourblogURL]/view/snapshot
Timeslide: - [yourblogURL]/view/timeslide
All of these views are very interactive with full mouse-over support and very light and quick to load (unlike something built in Flash)
Reproducing the instructions from the first site (read the discussion after the post as well...):
"Gmail allows its users to construct email filters to tag messages with various labels, forward things to different address and so forth by specifying the conditions an email must meet before the filter in question is applied. One can specify that the message be From a particular source, be sent To a certain address, contain specific text and so on. Since the filters are implemented as Gmail search queries, Gmail filters may also include basic boolean logic. For instance, you can create a filter that catches emails From bob@example.com OR sally@example.org. In terms of Gmail’s search syntax, this filter would be denoted as from:(bob@example.com OR sally@example.org). Similarly, NOTs are specified with minus signs, and spaces are used for ANDs.
Gmail’s filters, then, are fairly robust. However, the interface for writing filters is very limiting. The user is presented with five text boxes: From, To, Subject, Has The Words, Doesn’t Have. And that’s all the options we get. Suppose, instead of the above, I wanted to create a filter that caught messages From bob@example.com OR To sally@example.org. I can type ‘bob@example.com’ into the From box and ‘sally@example.org’ into the To box to try to construct such a filter. But Gmail does not offer me the ability to specify the boolean operator that should be applied between the From and To conditions; it assumes AND. I’m hosed.
But only at first glance. You can actually implement a relative OR between fields. A cursory internet search yielded the following clever solution.
In the From field, enter
bob@example.com) OR to:(sally@example.org
It’s the sneaky use of parentheses that makes it all work. Another solution would be to enter the entire search query into the Has The Words field:
from:(bob@example.com) OR to:(sally@example.org)
Though more straightforward, some will argue it isn’t as clean.
Anyway, don’t let Gmail’s (in this case) crappy interface stop you from making arbitrarily complicated filters."
