Networking

Twitter clients in Linux

Twitter has become a part of daily life. Since twitter allows only 140 characters of a status update, its like an SMS being sent to all of your friends to tell them what you're doing now. This can be done using many ways on your cell phone, laptop and desktop. Tweeting is fun and you can find new stuff easily just by following people and lists. So here, I'm listing some twitter clients for Linux users who often give up after not being able to find a good twitter client and revert to using some browser addon like Echofon which sucks.

Chat on Facebook using a client

Hi,

If you're a facebook user and chat a lot with Facebook friends, then you must be in search of a desktop client for use with Facebook chat, right ?

So in this HOWTO, I cover how to use Pidgin for Facebook chat WITHOUT any extra installation of plugins, etc.

This tutorial enables you to connect to Facebook chat using Jabber or XMPP protocol !

Accessing blocked sites in your connection at school, workplace

Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. are usually blocked on networks of educational institutes, offices, etc.

There's a simple trick to this.

You can either follow this one - http://www.ampercent.com/access-facebook-when-blocked-in-office-school/5011/

or a better one is to change your DNS server.

But note that many institutions may be already using OpenDNS to filter the network. So you cannot use OpenDNS.

Linux Applications in Windows !

 

This guide is meant for people who are forced to use Windows on their machines connected in network to a Linux server and you cannot run Linux your machine because "Applcation X" is not available for Linux.

So you want to run Linux applications on your Windows box through network eh ?

Its very easy !

A small piece on the Linux server -

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