April 17th, 2010 Rana |

I was stuck some days back with space problem in my Virtual hard disc, which runs with VirtualBox. It was deactivating & locking the screen within a minute I started it.
It was a quite panic situation. My operating system at that time was Ubuntu Karmic.
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Tags: .vdi, compress, ubuntu, Virtual hard disc, virtualbox
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April 16th, 2010 Priyanka |

Every now and then you create a bookmark link by dragging the website shortcut icon to the firefox bookmark toolbar.
Everything is fine, but after a while you cannot find all the frequently visited websites in the toolbar because it gets hidden after you have added lots of bookmarks to the bookmarks panel and you have to click the “>>” link to find and go to that site.
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Tags: firefox, internet use, toolbar, ubuntu, windows xp
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January 15th, 2010 Priyanka |

Today I tried to install TweetDeck in Ubuntu Linux. It is a desktop application for different social networks. The main feature being to stay updated on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn.
To know more check out their features page.
Ok, now lets start.
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Tags: Adobe Air, Karmic, Linux, Tweetdeck, Twitter, ubuntu
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October 6th, 2009 Priyanka |

Continued from: Playing embedded midi file in firefox – Part 1
Instructions For Windows Users:
Quicktime is useful for playing embedded midi file types from within the browser in windows.
Clicking the “Install missing plugins” button in firefox brings up Apple QuickTime, which you mostly have installed in windows. But it still does not work.
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Tags: firefox, midi, ubuntu, windows
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October 6th, 2009 Priyanka |

Many web sites that you may visit will have embedded media that requires the use of a plug-in for playing these embedded “midi” background music files.
When somebody opens a web page or may be an eCards site which is supposed to have a background music, we get the banner in Firefox “Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page”, and there is a button “Install missing plugins”
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Tags: .mid player, ecard music, firefox, midi, ubuntu, windows
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July 21st, 2009 Priyanka |
To my utter dismay after twice restarting the PC and nautilus too, I could not use dropbox. The link was sitting perfectly in Applications> Internet> Dropbox but right after clicking it the tray icon flashed in the system tray/notification area for a few seconds and then vanished.

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Tags: dropbox, internet use, jaunty, linux dropbox, ubuntu
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July 4th, 2009 Priyanka |

From 19th June Pidgin cannot connect to Yahoo Messenger (YM) in UBUNTU!
It seems that the guys at Yahoo are updating their servers and they are using a new authentication system.
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Tags: pidgin, ubuntu, yahoo
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January 24th, 2009 Priyanka |
From few days, I cannot connect to my Msn account. I use Pidgin Universal Chat client to connect to my multiple network Instant Messenger (IM) accounts i.e for my home and work like Msn, Yahoo, Google etc. in one single interface.
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Tags: instant messenger, msn, multinetwork, pidgin, ubuntu
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