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How to fix Adobe AIR’s installation on Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on August 16th, 2009 at 23:24.

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I just want to start this article by emphasizing that I am not a fan of Adobe’s new products like Adobe AIR or Flex. They eat two buckets of RAM for some shiny effects that really don’t deserve this kind of resources. The explanation is rather simple: being new products, they are still full of [...]

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Google Desktop, Google Chrome and Google Gadgets in Ubuntu

Posted on August 1st, 2009 at 15:39.

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Looking to see if Google Desktop is now available for Linux I have discovered some Google goodies. Not only that they have ported this nice desktop companion software to Linux, they have also included in their repositories Google Gadgets (using both GTK and Qt, but it is a little buggy as some of the widgets [...]

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iPod Touch

Posted on July 18th, 2009 at 1:38.

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Today I got my second iPod, which now is an iPod Touch. It’s an awesome gadget that I can’t get enough of. I have already made it Twitter, write statuses on Facebook, sign into my mail account in Google Apps, on Yahoo Messenger and now I am writing this post on it. Steve Jobs is [...]

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I am on Twitter too

Posted on July 7th, 2009 at 23:21.

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Following a previous unsuccesful try of using Twitter, I am now back on the famous microblogging platform. You can follow me there using this URL: http://twitter.com/raducotescu. I have also set a WordPress plugin that will tweet my posts there and also the updates I make to posts.

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Right click not working in Firefox 3.5

Posted on July 4th, 2009 at 14:20.

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For those of you who have installed (updated to) the new Firefox 3.5 and have problems with using the right click (the contextual menu not showing up) the solution to fix this is to get rid of the Yahoo Toolbar. From my brief experience with it on Windows (Firefox 3.5 is not available yet in [...]

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My resume in hResume format

Posted on June 19th, 2009 at 14:53.

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Thanks to Tudor I have built my CV using the hResume micro-format. It contains the same info as my LinkedIn profile, but it has a different look and feel. Knock your self out! Here.

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Google AdSense problem

Posted on June 12th, 2009 at 12:03.

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I really like Google, but sometimes they really suck (no offense Google guys, but this is true)! I am having  a problem regarding my AdSense acoount. Since I bought this domain I decided that I should use Google Apps to handle my email. I then went further using Analytics, Webmasters, Feedburner etc. Two days ago [...]

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OpenDNS failed to serve some DNS records for a short period of time

Posted on June 9th, 2009 at 0:02.

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I want to start this article by saying that I am a big fan of OpenDNS and a lot of people that know me can tell you how many times I have recommended them to change their default DNS servers provided by their ISPs with OpenDNS ones. The main reason for this is speed, both [...]

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