After switching to Mac, my Samsung notebook with Windows Xp has been free, so I decided to test dual booting Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux in this laptop. The downloading, burning cd/dvd and installation was easy and straight forward. Only…
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Password Managers for OS X
I’ve switched to a Mac and it took quite some time for me to find an ideal password management tool. Of course OS X has an excellent KeyChain Access for password and other confidential information management. Also there are some…
MacBook or CookBook?
Apple MacBook and MacBook Pros are so hot that the owners have figured an undocumented use of these laptops. Now they’ve started to use them for frying eggs and bacons, and of course the bonus point is keeping the coffee…
Revealed: The disgusting abuse that sparked Zidane’s fury
With the help of lip-reader expert the Daily Mail have deciphered the vile stream of racial and personal abuse by Marco Materazzi, which led to the violent outburst of Zidane. First Marco Matterazzi called the French star the Italian equivalent…
Zidane wins Golden Ball despite headbutting Marco Materazzi
Zidane wins the Golden Ball despite headbutting Italian player Marco Materazzi. I cheered for France yesterday and am a big fan of Zidane, but still think what he did was inexcusable and deserved a red card. I’d been thinking about…
JAJAH – a new way to make free and cheap calls
I’m using SkypeOut to call my family and friends for quite some time because it’s cheap, convenient and recently the voice quality got better. But I think I found a better alternative, it’s called JAJAH, a new Internet Telephony service…
How can human race survive the next hundred years?
Stephen Hawking, the famous British astrophysicist and best-selling author is asking How can human race survive the next hundred years? He asks: In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another…
I’ve switched to a Mac
I’ve been using PowerBook G4 as my production laptop for about a month. There had been some odd moments but overall it’s been a wonderful experience and definitely there’s no looking back. I’m glad that I’ve switched. Now my laptop…
Basic journey of a packet
Basic journey of a packet is an excellent article for anyone who’s curious about how things actually work in the Internet, specially for new network and system admins. The author has done a very good job in explaining how a…
The Six Most Feared but Least Likely Causes of Death
A very interesting list of six most common, yet unfounded, causes of death that most Americans fear of. I think the list applies to Non-Americans as well. Just the thought of dying of airplane crashes, shark attacks or being murdered…
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