How to Enable extra compiz fusion effects in Mandriva Linux One Spring 2008
I have always used windows infact ever since I started using computer and honestly I have never been a fan of Linux but Mandriva Linux One has changed my opinion about Linux, it has been called “almost perfect Linux distro” by many and rightly so. It is the easiest to use Linux distro i have ever came across and I have started recommending it to every person that wants to switch to Linux from windows.
Now back to compiz fusion, well enabling compiz fusion effects in Mandriva Linux One was a no brainer and easiest to do compared to other Linux distros like ubuntu, when you are done installing Mandriva Linux one it asks you whether you want to use Metisse (that is the 3d desktop effect manager that comes with Mandriva which doesn’t have all the features that compiz has) , Compiz Fusion or no 3d effect at all, just select compiz fusion or if you missed that you can manually select compiz fusion by clicking on the Configure Your Computer icon in the panel (near the show desktop icon) and goto hardware tab and click on Configure 3D desktop effects under the Configure graphics heading. When Mandriva loads up for the first time you will immediately start seeing compiz fusion effects if you chose it. Mandriva installs CompizConfig by default so that you can configure compiz fusion easily, to access compiz config goto menu–>Tools–>CompizConfig Settings Manager.
Now there is a problem Mandriva by default doesn’t have some cool extra compiz fusion plugins like “3D windows” plugin which presents open windows in 3D way by elevating them from the desktop, “Paint Fire on the screen” plugin allow you to write on your screen with fire text which looks uber cool, “Snow” plugin which shows snow on your desktop and few more.
Exclude Your own visits from Google analytics on your WordPress Blog
Google Analytics is the most popular web analytics software and no doubt the best out there and many blogger’s use it for tracking thier visitors but many blogger’s complain that their own visits are counted in their Google Analytic’s report and that is annoying if your blog in new because sometimes you are going to be the only one visiting your blog, I will show you three ways to exclude your own visits from Google Analytic’s Reports:
First Method: Exclude your IP by creating a filter in Google analytics
to do that open Google analytics , click on access analytics button and sign in
Dragon Multimedia Player For Linux
There are many Multimedia applications available for various linux distro each one of them provide very exciting and unique features. But what sets VLC( which is the most used media player) apart from the rest is that it has built in codec support which is why most people use it, even though its feature set is not as comprehensive as the other media players. To try and compete with VLC media player dragon player was created. It like VLC is a simple media player that comes with support for many different codecs.
When you first launch dragon player its the simplicity that hits most people
How to Make Firefox Use Windows Vista theme in Windows XP
I Personally don’t like the Firefox 3 theme for Windows XP in fact the windows vista’s Firefox theme looks much better and I badly wanted to change my theme to that of vista’s but I don’t like to use third party themes with my browser as they can slow down my browser, I came across this post on how-to geek and ever since I have been using the vista theme in Firefox and it looks just great and doesn’t slows down the browser unlike other third party themes because this theme is integrated in Firefox by default and you just need to activate it.
To use this theme you just have to copy paste a file in your Firefox’s application data folder and restart Firefox that’s it
Complete Steps:
Close Firefox Completely and make sure that it is properly closed by looking up Firefox.exe in the Task Manager
Google Introduces Adsense For Feeds
Today when I opened my Adsense account to check my earnings, I saw a new tab in the earning sections for Adsense For Feeds and I was quite excited because I was looking for a way to monetize my feeds and what could be better than Adsense ;), actually one could see it coming earlier.
Once you login to your Adsense account you will see a new column in your earning’s report with a link to “Get Started”
click on it and you will be taken to the setup page for Adsense for feeds which looks like this:
