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June 13th, 2008

Easily switch favicons with Wordpress plugin

With MaxBlogPress’ FavIcon Wordpress Plugin you can easily switch between favicons without a hassle.  I’m using Firefox and the updated favicons show up automatically…



May 12th, 2008

Create free ringtones from your own songs

With Mobile17 you can create ringtones from your own music files.  Where ringtone providers will charge you an arm and a leg, Mobile17 lets you upload an mp3/wav of your favorite song, then pick a clip out of the song.  It then sends you the file, through a picture e-mail or something similar where you can select it to play as a ringtone.  They claim to be compatible with over 95% of available cell phones so chances are you won’t have a problem being able to upload and create your own free ringtones.  The wait time can be over 2 hours, but if you donate some money they will give you ‘Express’ credits, or you could always buy a subscription. I’ve used them successfully multiple times and the quality is great, just thought I’d give them some props.

Make your own ringtones and graphics, for free, at Mobile17. Check it out! Click-here.



April 30th, 2008

AMD launches it’s own brand of PCs

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Sunday unveiled its first computer brand, aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, with design and sales help from its major chip customers such as Dell Inc.

AMD is well in it’s way to overtake Intel.  Can’t wait to see what else they will roll out in the future.

Story from Reuters



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April 27th, 2008

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS beta will not update?

If you’ve been using the beta version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron and you can’t seem to get your update manager to recognize the final version, there is a simple answer.  The beta updates to the final version automatically…  If you are using an earlier version such as 7.10, you can learn how to upgrade here.



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April 26th, 2008

Ubuntu Live Chat Technical Support

If you need a problem with Ubuntu fixed right away, you should go to the official IRC chat room on Freenode.  There is tons of people that are more than willing to help if you have a legitimate question to ask.  Here is a list of their servers taken from Freenode.net:

Asia/Pacific Rim

   Taoyuan, TW

chat.ap.freenode.net

   tolkien.freenode.net

 
Australia

   Brisbane, AU

chat.au.freenode.net

   asimov.freenode.net

 
Europe

   Frankfurt, DE
   Helsinki, FI
   Hoofddorp, NL
   Milano, IT
   Oslo, NO

   Umeå, SE
   Moscow, RU
   London, UK
   Vilnius, LT

chat.eu.freenode.net

   kornbluth.freenode.net
   orwell.freenode.net
   sterling.freenode.net
   calvino.freenode.net
   adams.freenode.net
   gibson.freenode.net
   leguin.freenode.net
   lem.freenode.net
   pratchett.freenode.net
   sendak.freenode.net

ipv6.chat.eu.freenode.net

   goethe.freenode.net
   calkins.freenode.net

   crichton.freenode.net

United States

   Corvallis, OR

   Madison, WI
   Irvine, CA
   Los Angeles, CA
   Missoula, MT

chat.us.freenode.net

   niven.freenode.net
   zelazny.freenode.net
   brown.freenode.net
   anthony.freenode.net
   kubrick.freenode.net
   heinlein.freenode.net

 

After you are logged in, type /nick YourName and then /join #ubuntu - You may have to register your nickname on the Freenode servers (#ubuntu requires this), so type /msg NickServ Register YourPassword - If the name isn’t already taken you will have successfully registered your name and will be able to start chatting and asking for help with your problem.

Firefox users should look into ChatZilla.  Or to connect to the Freenode IRC servers through your browser, use their web based Java Client.


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April 1st, 2008

Fix Undefined video mode number in Ubuntu…

 If you’re getting the error message; "Undefined video mode number - Press Enter to see more or space to continue" when you boot up, I just found a quick fix for it while trying to patch the same problem on my machine.  This will only work if you’re using the grub loader found in distributions such as Ubuntu.

Ubuntu users, open up a Terminal window and type:
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Scroll to the bottom and you will find something that says  vga=791 or some other number.  Replace both instances of vga=791 (or whatever it says) to vga=normal
Please note:  The latest beta version of Ubuntu may have a revised version of menu.lst - There will be more instances of the vga=, just change all of them to vga=normal.  This still worked for me because my bootloader stopped showing up.  I have not seen any negative side effects from doing this, so if you know any please leave a comment.

Save the file and reboot.  This should hopefully fix the problem! (If it does not please leave a comment with the problem and I’ll try and find your solution.)  Please bookmark this article at your favorite social bookmark website(s) so other people can benefit from this information.

 

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