Posted by: techcontent on: November 30, 2008
Posted by: techcontent on: November 29, 2008
Hate being spammed or just tired of giving out your email address everytime you are asked to register at a site? Well here is a perfect solution, Mailcatch.com. No signup, in fact the beauty of this service is that you are not required to even visit the site to create your temporary email address! When you are on a site that requests your email simply type in the name you want to use @mailcatch.com and you are good to go!
Then go to the site to check it if you want. They also have mail forwarding and RSS. How cool (and easy) is that? Anyway… Mailcatch.com if you want to check it out.
Posted by: techcontent on: November 28, 2008
Image by via CrunchBase
Flickr has a really annoying protection against downloading (some) pictures from their site using the right click menu of your browser. They stretched a 1×1 transparent pic over the picture you would like to download, so if you right click on the picture, you actually right click on the transparent overlay.
If you’re using Firefox, (and you probably should be
) just open your userContent.css file in your Mozilla chrome directory (windows: c:\Documents ‘n’ Settings\$USER\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\$profile_name\chrome) and add this line (create the file if it doesn’t exist yet):
img[src*=”spaceball.gif”] {display: none !important;}
and the “protection” is gone
Posted by: techcontent on: November 28, 2008
This is a list of keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu 8.10 and FireFox 3.
Desktop
* Ctrl + Alt + Delete » Log Out
* Ctrl + Alt + L » Lock Screen
* Alt + F1 » Open Panel Menu
* Alt + F2 » Run Application Dialog
* Print » Screenshot
* Alt + Print » Screenshot of a window
* Shift + Alt + Up » Initiate Window Picker (Use the up, down, right, left arrows to pick)
* Alt + Tab » Move between windows with popup visual chooser
* Ctrl + Alt + D » Show Desktop
Window Management
* Alt + F10 » Maximize Window
* Alt + F5 » Unmaximize Window
* Alt + F4 » Close Window
* Alt + F9 » Minimize Window
* Alt + F7 » Move Window
* Alt + F8 » Resize Window
* Alt + Space » Activate the menu for the current window
* Shift+Ctrl+N » Create New Folder
* Ctrl+T » Delete (to Trash)
* Shift+Right Arrow » Open Directory
* Shift+Left Arrow » Close Directory
* Alt+ENTER » File/Folder Properties
* Ctrl+1 » Toggle View As Icons
* Ctrl+2 » Toggle View As List
* Ctrl+S » Select Pattern
* F2 » Rename File
* Ctrl+A » Select All
* Ctrl+W » Close Window
* Ctrl+Shift+W » Close All Nautilus Windows
* Ctrl+R » Reload Nautilus Window
* Alt+Up Arrow » Open Parent
* Alt+Left Arrow » Back
* Alt+Right Arrow » Forward
* Alt+Home » Home Folder
* Ctrl+L » Location Bar
* F9 » Toggle Sidepane
* Ctrl+H » Show Hidden Files
* Ctrl++ » Zoom In
* Ctrl+- » Zoom Out
* Ctrl+0 » Normal Size
FireFox 3
* Alt+Left Arrow » Back
* Alt+Right Arrow » Forward
* Alt+Home » Home
* Ctrl+L » Select the Address Bar
* F6 » Select the Address Bar
* Ctrl+K » Select the Search Bar
* Ctrl+K+Down Arrow » toggle Switch Search Engine in Use
* Ctrl+K+Up Arrow » Switch Search Engine in Use
* Ctrl+T » Open New Tab
* Ctrl+W » Close Current Tab
* Ctrl+Page Up » View the Previous Tab
* Ctrl+Page Down » View the Next Tab
* Ctrl+Tab » View the Next Tab
* Alt+Num (1, 2, 3, etc) » Switch to Tab #
* Ctrl+Shift+T » Open Recently Closed Tabs
* Ctrl+R » Refresh (Current Tab)
* Ctrl+Shift+R » Force Refresh (Current Tab)
* Ctrl+U » View Source (Current Tab)
Posted by: techcontent on: November 28, 2008
Blockbuster announced a branded version of a IP set-top box and media player from 2Wire that runs Linux on a MIPS-based Broadcom chipset. The Blockbuster version of the 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player is used to download videos from Blockbuster OnDemand via broadband, says Blockbuster.
Blockbuster’s MediaPoint appears to be an answer to the Roku Netflix Player offered by rival movie download service, Netflix. Developed by Roku, the Netflix Player also runs Linux, has a similar $100 pricetag, and offers similar capabilities, including Ethernet and WiFi. The Netflix player works with a subscription service, unlike Blockbuster’s rental model, but in neither case are users permitted to store movies.
Posted by: techcontent on: November 28, 2008
“Micron demonstrated the culmination of numerous technology announcements this year with a solid state disk drive that is capable of 1GB/sec throughput with a PCIe slot. The SSD is based on Micron’s 34nm technology and interleaving 64 NAND flash chips in parallel. While the techology, which is expected to ship over the next year, is currently aimed at high-end applications, a Micron executive said it’s entirely possible that Micron’s laptop and desktop SSDs could have similar performance in the near future by bypassing SATA interfaces.”
While Micron’s SSD technology is aimed at high-end applications that would run on Fibre Channel SANs, such as transactional databases or streaming video, consumer-grade computers using SSDs directly connected to a PCIe bus with four lanes (x4 slots) could soon achieve similar results.
Physical PCIe slots may contain from one to 32 lanes of data. Currently, PCIe Generation 1 offers 250MB/sec. throughput per lane. The second generation of PCIe is expected out next year and will offer twice the throughput, or 500MB/sec.