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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.

iPhone 4 Hacked

iPhone 4 has been hacked already ! It arrived in the markets just a few weeks ago. It seems Apple didn't fix a security hole properly.

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.

Rename tags and folders in Google Reader


Google had last year announced they would like to know what their users' wishlist about Google Reader was.

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.

Linux Server Optimization Guide

This is a small guide on how to optimizing a linux server for performance, so that you can extract the full juice of your server. A lot of times, the default configurations are bad, and work slow- especially they matter a lot when you have low ram.

Python vs PHP (webdev)

Python and PHP are two different awesome programming languages, but often there is fight between developers following the two languages that one is better than other, etc.
I am publishing some astonishing benchmark results on Python-WSGI and PHP hello world scripts which makes no sense but still proves that Python is faster than PHP.

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.

Potential malware threat for Macintosh

So finally there seems to be no operating system which can beat Linux in terms of security ! Wow, that is something mindblowing !
Yeah I am talking about Macintosh or Apple Mac that used to be in the top of lists of most secure OS Shock
Many geeks, computer technicians, etc., etc. used to say that Macintosh is the safest of the three popular OSes in the decreasing order - Windows > Macintosh > Linux

Learn touch typing - Professional typing free

Touch typing or professional typing is very important if you want to be sucessful in the IT industry and your job involves decent amount of typing. Touch typing, also called professional typing enables one to type much faster than the usual index-finger typing. In this, the typist presses the keys without seeing them on the keyboard using all the fingers - not only the index finger.

It is a little difficult to learn at initial times but later it becomes a charm and helps a lot Laughing out loud
Anyway, that's applicable to any new thing humans learn.

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