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• How to clear DNS cache in Mac (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard)

  July 31, 2010 | No comment

  Sometimes you may need to clear the DNS cache of your MacOS, just do it as followed: 1. Goto Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal2. At the terminal, type:For MacOS Tiger & older: lookupd -flushcache For MacOS Leopard & Snow Leopard dscacheutil -flushcache

• Validation with Jquery

  July 26, 2010 | No comment

  Ever wonder how to write easy validation for your form with Jquery? I’ve been using quite a few but none can compete with Validity, it’s a nice little javascripts snippet that can handle most of our needs for client validation. And the syntax is beautiful, too, just have a look  Documentation is perfect !!!!!!! So what are you waiting for, try and see it here

• Add your Google Apps email to Palm Pre

  July 19, 2010 | No comment

  I’ve just got a new Palm Pre and really, really it’s fantastic, especially with the email capability of handling various email account (include exchange). For those of you want to add your own domain Google Apps account to Palm Pre, it’s simple in few steps: 1. Open Email -> Preferences & Accounts2. Select “Add An Account” from the Preferences window4.Put in Email ...

• Install packages for PEAR in XAMPP (Ubuntu Linux)

  March 17, 2010 | 1 comment

  You want to install some packages for PEAR in XAMPP in linux, assume XAMPP & PEAR are already  installed at /opt/lampp 1. Go to /opt/lampp/bin 2. $ sudo ./pear install <package-names> DONE!

• Skype on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04

  March 17, 2010 | No comment

  Skype Easy steps for running Skype on Lucid Lynx 10.04 Download first, check your system 32bit or 64bit and download the corresponding file: 32 bit 64 bit Launch the skype deb file and you are in business

• Hamachi on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 error

  October 27, 2009 | No comment

  I have Hamachi installed on Jaunty successfully by following this article, but having error when trying to make the same on Karmic. Step 17 failed simple with “Killed” message when I put the command $ sudo hamachi-init -c /etc/hamachi After googling around, I found out this posts, it solved my problem, so I put it here for those who are struggling with the Hamachi installation on Karmic. ...

• Speedup your flock browser (applied to firefox too)

  October 25, 2009 | No comment

  I decided to try Flock on my new Ubuntu Karmic installation, which is running beautifully on my old-boy Toshibar R100. And to make it faster, you may try as I did, I bet it will make your flock much faster when browsing 1. In Address bar type about:config . A warning is displayed, just proceed with the button “I’ll be careful, I promise” 2. In the Filter, type network.http 3. Now, ...

• Get back your Alt+Ctrl+Backspace in Karmic

  October 18, 2009 | 1 comment

  Alt+Ctrl+Backspace is disabled by default in Karmic, to enable it back, it’s quite easy 1. GNOME - Goto System->Preferences->Keyboard- Choose Layout tab, then click “Layout Options” button- Select “Key sequence to kill the X server”and tick the option Alt+Ctrl+Backspace 2. KDE - From your terminal, launch “systemsettings”- Select “Regional & ...

• Duplicate a website like Teleport on Ubuntu Jaunty Linux

  October 14, 2009 | No comment

  If you are a Windows user, you probably know about Teleport to download or create a copy of a website on your hard-disk What about on Linux? Well, you have another alternative powerful option: using wget - To mirror your website: wget --convert-links -r http://www.yoursite.com - To download specific file types: wget –accept=.html,.doc,.docx,.pdf,.xls,.xlsx,.ppt,.pptx –recursive –no-clobber ...

• Looking no more! I found the best Mind Map for my Ubuntu

  October 6, 2009 | No comment

  I have been missing Mindmap Manager when switching to Ubuntu from my Windows box and wondering for a while to find a powerful & competitive alternative free solution. Freemind is the first one that came up on my Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 system, it satisfied my needs but the graphics seem to be plain & poor compare to the windows counterpart. Here is the screenshot of Freemind. And today I found ...