Rambling Thoughts

This is how bubble builds up!

Posted on 19. Oct, 2008 by Nikhil Sheth.

 
Once there was a little island country. The land of this country was the tiny island itself. The total money in circulation was 2 dollars as there were only two pieces of 1 dollar coins circulating [...]

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Running CrossOver Chromium under Ubuntu

Posted on 15. Oct, 2008 by Nikhil Sheth.

Installing CrossOver Chromium on Ubuntu
To install Crossover Chromium issue the following commands in the terminal window (Application-> Accessories -> Terminal):
Note: The package downloaded below is for 32bit version of the CrossOver Chromium , Codeweavers has released 64 bit version too. You can download 64bit version from this page.
wget http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/chromium/cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb
AND
sudo dpkg -i cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb
CrossOver Chromium should [...]

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Free Remote Desktop Sharing Applications

Posted on 11. Oct, 2008 by Nikhil Sheth.

Working as a distributed team and need desktop collaboration?
Supporting a remote web application that you had built?
Need to manage the work computer from home?

There are great free remote desktop applications which helps to build this remote connection.
Here is the list of best ones:
LogMeIn
Free version works like a charm, you can manage multiple remote computers. This [...]

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Easter Eggs

Posted on 07. Oct, 2008 by Nikhil Sheth.

Here is a list of some interesting easter eggs:

Get a Ninja in Your Google Reader : Feeling sentimental for your classic NES? In Google Reader, hit the Konami Code key sequence: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A to get a shrugging ninja in your sidebar.
Firefox 3 Easter Egg: [...]

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