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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

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

Fresh By Lawand

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

S60v3 Version

Here are some screen shots:

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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 By Lawand

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

S60v3 Version

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2009-07-04 at 22:22

Nostalgia (Black) By Lawand

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

S60v3 Version

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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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The Funny Dudes Blog Launched!

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Today, my and the Funny Guys team have finished the final touches on the new photo blog, Funny Dudes.

The blog already has more than 20 hilariously-funny pictures that you don’t want to miss, so give it a look!

Here are some samples:

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2009-01-31 at 00:42

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Opera Mini For Windows

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This is tested on Windows XP and Windows Vista, and I assume that it would work on later versions.

My favorite mobile web browser, Opera Mini turned out to be deployable under desktop platforms such as Microsoft Windows and here are the steps to do so:

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2009-01-12 at 00:20

A Project I Am Glad To Maintain

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Recently, I have became in charge of maintaining an all-in-one compiled-help-file (CHM) version of the C++ FAQ Lite Online C++ tutorial.

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Written by lawand

2009-01-04 at 22:30