Rescue Your Time With RescueTime

On the internet, losing all sense of time isn’t that hard. One link leads to another and suddenly we realize that we’ve spent an hour killing little stick figures in a flash game on some ad-laden site. Hey, a good bout of violence once in a while helps exercise the heart!

When I finally do get off and into the ‘real world,’ I’m asked–and wonder myself–how time passes so quickly. And frankly, the answer is – I don’t know. The interwebs are just that kind of place.

And that is where RescueTime comes in. RescueTime is free time management software that lets you see how much time you spend on the computer and internet, including where you spend it. It logs the time and places you visit on the internet, and can also record usage of regular programs such as a music player or word processor.
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Control Another Computer Over A Network In Linux

Ever wanted to get help from your friends or wanted to help some friend in doing some specific task, and you wished you could do that using a remote desktop connection but you don’t know how to remotely control a PC, doing so is very easy in Linux I will show you how to do that in this tutorial

We will use two programs for this purpose the first is called KRFB which allows you to create a VNC server so that others can control your computer remotely and the other one is called KRDC which is a VNC client which allows you to control someone’s computer remotely. Both KRFB and KRDC are easily found in the repositories of almost all Linux distro’s so installing them isn’t too much of a hassle

Now if you want someone to control your computer remotely start up krfb and you will get a windows similar to this:

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Visual Walkthrough Of KDE 4.1

The KDE 4 desktop environment was released to much criticism many of which said that it was severely limited, to face those criticisms the KDE organisation worked on KDE 4.1 to battle many of the problems,  I will take you through the new features in KDE 4.1

(click on thumbnails to see larger version of images)

1)Upon first boot up of KDE 4.1 the first most prominent feature is the inclusion of a new desktop management widget

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Modify Incompatible Firefox Extensions to make them work with Firefox 3

Ever came across an extension that you badly want to run with Firefox 3 and are in no mood to downgrade to earlier versions of Firefox, and you aren’t comfortable with modifying about:config, the other day I came across this extension called minimize to tray and I badly wanted it to run with Firefox 3 ,actually what it does is that it minimizes Firefox to tray when you press CTRL+SHIFT+M, now whenever I am done with with Firefox I don’t close it instead I minimize it, it is working great so far in Firefox 3.0.1, I am using the same extension as an reference in this post:

first step is to get the .xpi file of the addon you want to make compatible with Firefox 3.0.1, to do that go to Mozilla addons site and open the page of your desired extension, now the problem is that the add to Firefox button is greyed out because its not compatible otherwise we would have right clicked it and chosen “save link as” option but now you  can get xpi file by changing your browser e.g Internet Explorer (you can use IE tab too) as it will turn the add to Firefox button to download now button and then you can easily save the xpi file to your hard disk
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Get stand alone installer for windows live messenger and windows live writer

Ever since Microsoft started giving their windows live labelled software through windows live installer I am having hard time installing these software’s because it is hard to download those installers through Windows Live Installer every time you need to install a windows live software especially if you have slow connection and this makes the installation process really slow, thank god windows live installer saves a copy of the installer on your harddisk once you install the software, I will show you how to get the installers

First open my computer open tools menu and select folder options

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