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Kopete Google Talk Invisible

There are many advantages of being invisible on chat networks. Many times, you want to talk something seriously important with one person and it won't be nice that others disturb you at such a crucial moment.

Invisibilty on Google Talk on most third party chat clients has been a pain. They connect through the jabber protocol on which Google Talk is based.

Read more to know how to fix this.

Cloud-hosted by a Google AppEngine template

Cloud-hosting is a method to scale from 1 web server to thousands of web servers easily.
This tutorial shows you how to get an app off the ground with Python and Google AppEngine.
It contains many useful links to more detailed info about AppEngine and Python.

Firefox 3.6.4 with crash protection released !

Mozilla Firefox- The open source browser's version 3.6.4 was released on June 22, 2010.
As per the press note, it now has crash protection also.

Speed up Firefox, Reduce Firefox Memory usage, Make Firefox look and behave like chrome

Firefox was one of the most popular browser in the world of internet until recently Google came up with Google Chrome. Now a lot of Firefox users are/have migrated to Google Chrome or Chromium because chrome's speed and snappiness. Firefox is slow, I agree and it consumes a lot of RAM sometimes. I have found some tricks to minimize the RAM usage and speed up Firefox so that it is to some extent at par with Chrome.

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.

Animated buttons with JQuery in HTML+JS, from PHP

This article will show you how to do animated buttons (created in photoshop / gimp), with the text on the button as pure HTML..
One page can sport many different animated buttons, artwork is re-used and cached browser-side..

Ubuntu...which edition is right for you?

Ahoy again there! Its been a long time since the last post. Many of you might’ve been wondering that which Ubuntu edition you should choose from! Well, the solution is right here!

Why this fuss over FOSS and Non-Foss?

Test: Go to some company and tell them about a free product that outsmart theirs..they will fuss over the free software and free software culture. Now, go to some foss activist, and talk to them about some proprietary software or Microsoft. They will start harassing them.

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