How to Clean Your Keyboard

USB vacuum cleaner

Did you know your hair-dryer can effectively clean-up your Keyboards. Sounds bizarre no. But amongst the 10 ways to clean your Keyboard according to Inc.com, you’ll find it and several other strange but effective ways to clean-up that germ-bump called Keyboard.
Other bizarre ways mentioned:

  • Use a USB vacuum cleaner ~ Screenshot above.
  • Remove all of keys and Use the dishwasher; ~ if you can wait a day or two for it to dry-up –with
  • Use CyberClean ~ a yellow gel blob that looks like Play-Doh.
  • Use Scotch Tape

What methods do you use to clean-up your laptop and desktop keyboards?

How to Clean Your Keyboard – - Inc.com

Firefox 3.5 Hits 10 Million Downloads

Just a few day back Firefox 3.5 was officially released to the general public. It’s now been downloaded over 10 million times. It hit 10 million according to Mozilla’s real-time download tracker just before I started writing this post.

The graph show the US is leading in the downloads, as usual, but its a huge surprise to see Germany at second place with almost 1.2 million downloads with respect to third place Japan at 550 thousand downloads.
I expected more from China and India that do not even feature in the top 10.
Iran that had a better position with Firefox 3.0 is nowhere to be found, for reasons we all know.

Worldwide Firefox Downloads

If you haven’t downloaded, then what are you waiting. See how to run Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu with a single command. Also enrich your portable hard drive with Firefox 3.5 Portable Edition by PortableApps.com

Worldwide Real-Time Firefox Downloads

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition 3.5 Released

Windows-only: PortableApps.com has quickly come out with the portable edition of Mozilla Firefox 3.5, so-called Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.5.
The famous duo, Mozilla Firefox browser and PortableApps.com launcher are by now standards in the techie world. Together, they come to your aid where there is no doctor sorry Firefox.
They come along with your bookmarks, settings and extensions. And when it’s time to go, they (Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition) leave behind no personal information on the machine you ran it on.
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Chritter: A Google Chrome Twitter Extension

Chritter

Chritter is a Google Chrome extension that places non-intrusive Twitter updates on your Chrome Status Bar. So whilst navigating with your Chrome Browser, Twitter updates appear down there and keep you informed on what your contacts are up to. More»

A Single Command Install of Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu

Firefox 3.5

The final version of the Firefox 3.5 is now available for all major Operative Systems on Mozilla’s web site. Firefox downloads, as usual are not only on a per-OS basis, but also on a per-language basis. Firefox 3.5 maintains that tradition, it is availabe in over 50 different languages. “Your is certainly included”. More»

VirtualBox 3.0 with Gaming-Level Graphics Released

Virtualbox 3.0, “a major update introducing Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) in virtual machines as well as much improved 3D support” is now available.
You were advised not to install VirtualBox 3.0 beta on a production PC, it is now time to get on your production machine VirtualBox 3.0’s OpenGL support for Windows, Linux, and Solaris guest machines, Direct3D 8/9 applications and games for Windows guests, and better synchronisation of shared folders between Linux and Windows host/guest setups.

VirtualBox is a cross-platform, open source, x86 virtualization application.

VirtualBox 3.0 Changelog | Download VirtualBox 3.0

Justin.tv Video Plugin for XBMC

XBMC and Justin.tv

For Windows/Mac/Linux: With the Justin.tv Video Plugin for XBMC you can now watch live streams from the Justin.tv on your XBMC Media Center.
Justin.tv is surely the largest online community to broadcast, watch and interact with live videos.

Justin.tv Video Plugin for XBMC does not support video clips, for now. The author says he’s looking into it.

To manually install this plugin in your Ubuntu box, download and extract the Justin.tv directory into your ~/.xbmc/plugins/video/ directory. Run XBMC, hit Videos -> Video Plugins -> Justin.tv and start watching live video streams.

The author of this plugin also recommends the use of the SVN Repo Installer update feature for automated updates of this plugin.

Justin.tv Video Plugin for XBMC | Download

Package Converter: A Graphical Front-End for Alien

Alien, the Linux application that converts between Red Hat rpm, Debian deb, Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris pkg file formats now has a front-end GUI to simplify the already simple process of converting packages from one format to the other with Alien.

Alien is particularly useful in converting working .rpm packages to Debian/Ubuntu .deb format and vice-versa.

Package Converter, the front-end GUI for Alien is intuitive and easy-to-use, if you want to use a package from another Linux distribution than the one you have installed on your system.

Package Converter is written with Realbasic and has downloadable packages in BIN, RPM and DEB. It requires Alien — it goes without saying.

Package Converter

Solang Photo Manager for GNOME/Ubuntu

Solang is an open source photo manager the Gnome Desktop that looks very similar to the Gnome in-built F-Spot. This similarity is simple due to the use of F-Spot icons in Solang. Many have also tagged the new-born Solang as a Mono-Free version and alternative to F-Spot. Well, that its Mono-Free is true, Solang is written in C++ anf GTK+, that it’s a ported version of F-Spot has still to be confirmed. More»