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Use Your PC!

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I like to push computers to maximum productivity, this time I as was working on a 1.7 GHz Pentium4 Celeron PC equipped with 512MB of RAM, here are the applications I was using:

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2009-11-16 at 02:46

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Boot VirtualBox Guest From A USB Device

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The BIOS of guest computers in VirtualBox doesn’t support booting from a USB device, and in this case users can’t boot off their (usually Linux equipped) USB thumb-drives or hard disks.

This is a mini tutorial that includes a temporary workaround until that feature is implemented (I am not sure if it’s a planned feature, it just might be)

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2009-09-22 at 18:37

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Fresh

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A new theme is ready! Something to refresh your phone :)

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2009-08-09 at 02:22

A Glimpse Of KDE 4.3

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I always thought that KDE contains great wallpapers, so with the 4.3 version (codenamed Caizen) released yesterday, I went searching for a way to get the included wallpapers.

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2009-08-05 at 23:17

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Kore

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Kore by Lawand out now!, I hope you like it :)

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2009-07-04 at 22:22

Nostalgia (Black)

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As an improvement to my Nostalgia theme, I made black edition which also fixes some bugs…

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2009-05-24 at 19:58

Wikipedia Got Infected With The Swine Influenza Virus!

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After the heavy media coverage of the recent Swine Influenza (a.k.a Swine flu) outbreak, I wanted to know what this hall thing all about, so I googled Swine Flu hoping to find a Wikipedia article, and the third result was a what I wanted.

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2009-05-03 at 00:49

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Opera Mini For Windows

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My favorite mobile web browser, Opera Mini turned out to be deployable under desktop platforms such as Microsoft Windows.

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2009-01-12 at 00:20

Investigate Linux The Hacker Way

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If you are curious about how Linux distributions are organized, and interested in learning more about it’s development, you will find this tutorial enjoyable and informative.

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Written by Lawand

2009-01-03 at 23:15

Nostalgia

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I always want more performance out of my phone, so I decided to make a minimalistic theme designed for best performance.

It looked like old phones such as Nokia 6600 or Nokia 7610 so I decided to name it Nostalgia.

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Written by Lawand

2009-01-03 at 18:10