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Add-ons can slow down your browser. There are many add-ons available for Firefox making your whole browsing experience better and better but some of them can also make your browser crawl. Today Mozilla has released the names of add-ons that makes your Firefox browser slow to start. You can find it here:  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/performance/#addon-11 If you don't use some particular add-ons just disable them. It will not eat your valuable resources then.

Read more about it with video and screenshots at  http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/ubuntu-1104-beta-released-video.html If you want to try the beta release, this is how you do it:  http://techspalace.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-update-ubuntu-to-development.html

If you need On Screen Keyboard in Ubuntu press Alt+F2  and run the program called onboard You can also simulate mouse and keypad in the keyboard.

We can easily upgrade/install Firefox 4.0 by following the steps below. Open Terminal and type the followings: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install firefox ubufox  firefox-gnome-support This version is definitely faster and better than 3.6 but if you don't like how it looks here is the link to customize it.

Q. How to update Ubuntu to development release? A. Press Alt+F2 and type update-manager -D Update manager will open up and you'll see an upgrade  button. You may want to check if Normal Release  is selected under Souftware-sources -- Updates -- Release Upgrade

Here are the list of Ubuntu Blogs that I follow: Web UPD8 http://www.webupd8.org/ http://feeds2.feedburner.com/webupd8 Omg! Ubuntu! http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od Ubuntu Geek http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/UbuntuGeek Ubuntu HQ http://www.ubuntuhq.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/UbuntuHQ I don't like this. :@ Tombuntu http://tombuntu.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/Tombuntu He's lost these days. Easierbuntu http://easierbuntu.blogspot.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/Easierbuntu I am Ubuntu http://ubuntu.igameilive.com/ http://ubuntu.igameilive.com/feeds/posts/default And of course Techs Palace http://techspalace.blogspot.com/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/techspalace

Once your default country is selected in your Google Apps account you cannot change it. Sometime it becomes necessary to change the default country for eg: when you change your country. To force the change follow the steps below: Login to your Google Apps as an administrator. In your dashboard you'll see " Try Google Apps for Business Free" . Click that link. After that you'll get option to change the country as show in the figure below. Select your desire country and click ' Begin Trial '. Don't worry, we don't have to pay any buck. After this you'll reach to Google Checkout Page. At this moment close your browser. Yes close it. Verify if your change has been saved by going to Domain Setting -- Account Information -- Default Country

Open VirtualBox Open setting of your guest OS Ubuntu Goto shared folders Click the "Add shred folder" button. Its the button on far right with a plus sign on folder. Give a folder name and the path you want to share. Select "Read-only" if you want the share to be read only. Now open your guest OS Ubuntu Once its on, open terminal and run the command sudo mount.vboxfs name_of_your_shared_folder /mnt

Dial *#*#4636#*#* in your phone. You'll see a hidden testing menu from where you can see Phone information Battery information Battery history Usage statistics Wifi information

Whenever I use dark theme like Ambiance or DarkRoom, the pop up menu in Skype was unreadable as both the font and background color was dark. If you are also facing the same problem, the solution is very simple. Open Skype Goto Option->General You'll see a section called "Choose Style" There chose GTK+ or any other desired option.

I'm not much of a Facebook user, but the recent change of events in my life has made me use it more often. Following stuff in Facebook chat are cool. Make text bold make your text bold by placing it inside * (asterisk). we are *friends.* Make underline make your text underlined by placing it inside _ (underscore). We are _friends._ And finally :putnam: is cool emotion.

First read this  http://techspalace.blogspot.com/2010/02/upside-down-web-cam-simple-fix.html If you have same problem but in other program like Flash and so, then the fix is same. Just run the executable of the desire program instead of Skype. For eg. if you have problem with upside down cam in flash and you are using some browser(lets say Google Chrome) to video chat then: Close the browser. Run in terminal: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so google-chrome or if it is 32 bit system LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so google-chrome