Ubuntu: Fix for Picasa missing titlebar on fullscreen.

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Ajo Paul

On Ubuntu you may have noticed that when running Picasa in fullscreen mode and returning you would notice the titlebar will be missing on the picasa. Normally this can be fixed after closing and re-opening picasa again. But there’s a … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu : Fix for Firefox to download picasa albums

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Ajo Paul

There is a simple guide to install the latest picasa 3.8 (as of this writing) in Ubuntu as shown in this post.. However, I have noticed that, atleast in Ubuntu 11.04, that the “Download to Picasa” option doesnot work under … Continue reading →

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Netgear wireless adapter WG111v3 driver for Windows 2003

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Ajo Paul

For some odd reason, the netgear wireless usb adapter WG111v3′s driver does not install under Windows 2003. And the experts reason this being a “server”, so it should not have wireless feature!! A little search online lead me to this … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu: VMware and mount.ntfs high cpu usage fix

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Ajo Paul

If we run VMWare player on Ubuntu to run guest OS, and if the virtual machine files are stored in a NTFS partition (like a large External HDD), then chances are that you would notice mount.ntfs taking up almost 100% … Continue reading →

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Python error in strftime ValueError: Invalid format string

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Ajo Paul

Using python 2.7.1 interpreter on windows with the below format of string using strftime will lead to this error “ValueError: Invalid format string” eg:- strftime(“%a %b %02d %H:%M:%S %Y”, self.gmt) will work fine on Unix machines but to make it … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu : Convert video for Nokia Mobiles in MP4 format

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Ajo Paul

Most Nokia handsets feature symbian s60 platform v9.0 and upwards. Natively they have option to record and play MP4 files with MPEG-4 part 2, which is h.263. Higher end Nokia mobiles like N8 will support mp4 files with MPEG-4 part … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 11.04 : Uninstall Gnome3 and revert to Gnome 2.x

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Ajo Paul

Ubuntu 11.10 Update : If you are coming here to revert or remove gnome3 or unity from the latest Ubuntu 11.10, then the original solution in this page (found below) is not for you. To get a gnome classic like(not … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu : Automatically receive files over bluetooth

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Ajo Paul

In Ubuntu 10.10 maverick meerkat, the default setup of bluetooth would not allow you to automatically receive files over bluetooth. For every file(s) transferred you have to manually accept the request. This gets annoying when you have to send multiple … Continue reading →

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Firefox 4 : Missing status bar!

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Ajo Paul

After the Firefox 4 update to beta 7, you may notice that the status bar by default has been discarded. The concept of status bar has been moved to the address bar. Hence, once you hover your mouse over any … Continue reading →

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Fix for Chrome SSL Connection error

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Ajo Paul

If you are behind a corporate firewall and trying to access https sites using Google chrome, you are most likely to face “SSL connection error”. As of this build of chrome (6.0.472.63) the problem still persists. The workaround as suggested … Continue reading →

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