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September 2, 2010

Migrating from GMail to Google Apps

May 14, 2010

Set Gmail / Google Apps email as system wide default

March 4, 2010

True Multi-Currency Personal Finances

I have not been able to find a PERSONAL finances program that is true multi-currency.  Would love a web-based one, but nothing so far. I can’t believe this does not exist. I have researched this literally for months.

if anybody knows of a true-multi-currency PERSONAL FINANCES program, preferably web-based, but can also be desktop-based, linux or windows I am all ears.

Can’t be that I am the only person in the world with these needs.

By true-multi currency I mean, historical exchange-rate PER TRANSACTION and fully balanced at all times.

To make it more interesting, I am offering the following bounties:

  • $100 dollars to the person that finds a desktop one (windows or linux)
  • $200 for a web-based one that is =<$25/month
  • $300 for a web based and FREE.
  • $350 web-based with multi-user and multi-language for =< $30/month

GNU-Cash, jGnash and moneydance are excluded.
Web-based ones must run in ALL mayor browsers. It can not be MS IExplorer (ie, active-x) only crap.

Feel free to forward this offer. Offer is valid to any person** in the world. :-D

** person must have a pay-pal account in order to receive the money if outside the USA or Costa Rica.

February 11, 2010

UPDATED, Finally! Adobe releases native 64 bit Flash 10 for Linux

UPDATED Feb 11/2010

Finally we have a native 64bit Flash 10. It is working very well, I highly recommend it.

Before installing it, make sure that previous versions of Flash and nspluginwrapper are uninstalled.

Download it from http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz untar, copy and link  libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins by doing the following in the terminal. (make sure you close Firefox first)

tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

Done!

Or, alternatively (you should always read and understand scripts before running them) you can do this installation just by copying and pasting the following in the terminal:

wget http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_x64_en.sh && sudo chmod +x flash10_x64_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash10_x64_en.sh

This script will install Native 64 Bit Flash 10 and will also remove previous versions of flash and the not needed anymore “nspluginwrapper”

Note: If you just want to see the code for the script, it is available here:
http://queleimporta.com/downloads/flash10_x64_en.sh

EDIT #1: Jan 01/2009: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.d21.1
EDIT #2: March 02/2009: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.22.87
EDIT #3: August 02/2009: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.32.18
EDIT #4: January 05/2010: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.42.34
EDIT #5: February 11/2010: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.45.2

December 10, 2009

Thunderbird 3 released



Mozilla Messaging announced on Tuesday the official release of Thunderbird 3, a major update of the popular open source mail client. The new version brings great improvements, including an impressive new search system and support for tabs in the user interface.

The Mozilla Foundation began forming the Mozilla Messaging subsidiary in 2007 with the aim of giving Thunderbird a chance to soar. The company brought in former ActiveState CTO David Ascher to direct the organization and set its technical agenda. After he took the reigns in early 2008, he began documenting his team’s vision for Thunderbird 3, an ambitious update that would modernize the mail client in much the same way that the Firefox 3 release renewed Mozilla’s browser. The roadmap included plans to adopt Gecko 1.9 so that Thunderbird could leverage important improvements that had been made to the underlying architecture of the Mozilla platform.

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November 19, 2009

Excellent tool for searching domain names

Nice catchphrase too.

Give your domain search a happy ending.
There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond. Whether you want a short URL or something big, Domainr helps you explore them all. Some of our favorites are ste.ph, streetstyl.es and iamthewalr.us.

http://domai.nr/

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November 19, 2009

Excellent tool for searching domain names

Nice catchphrase too.

Give your domain search a happy ending.
There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond. Whether you want a short URL or something big, Domainr helps you explore them all. Some of our favorites are ste.ph, streetstyl.es and iamthewalr.us.

http://domai.nr/

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November 19, 2009

Excellent tool for searching domain names

Nice catchphrase too.

Give your domain search a happy ending.
There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond. Whether you want a short URL or something big, Domainr helps you explore them all. Some of our favorites are ste.ph, streetstyl.es and iamthewalr.us.

http://domai.nr/

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November 19, 2009

Excellent tool for searching domain names

Nice catchphrase too.

Give your domain search a happy ending.
There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond. Whether you want a short URL or something big, Domainr helps you explore them all. Some of our favorites are ste.ph, streetstyl.es and iamthewalr.us.

http://domai.nr/

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November 16, 2009

Restoring Nautilus as the default “Open Containing Folder” in Firefox

Using the terminal:

sudo gkedit /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

Search for: x-directory/gnome-default-handler=

and make sure the whole line reads

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop

instead of:

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=Thunar-folder-handler.desktop
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=pcmanfm-folder-handler.desktop;
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=kde4-dolphin.desktop

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