How to create a new interests List in Facebook

facebook-interests-create-new-list-thumb

Facebook just added a new feature called “Interests” lately. Interests is a list that shows the updates from the collection of pages, friends, and subscriptions. To create a new list, just head to Interest Lists https://www.facebook.com/addlist and click “+ Create list”. Facebook will show the pop up that includes your friends, pages and subscriptions or…

Read more...

How to delete files permanently in Mac OSX

Secure Empty Trash

Deleting files will go to Trash in Mac OS and you click Empty Trash to delete the files completely. For some reason, these files and data can be recovered from some utilities. If you really want to delete the files permanently, just use the “secure empty trash”. To use “secure empty trash”, right click on…

Read more...

How to prevent Chrome from downloading index files

advanced-browser-integration-thumb

I have been using Chrome as default browser for a while apart from using Firefox for web development. One thing I noticed is that Chrome downloads index files instead of displaying the page in some websites. There is a discussion on Chorme help forum shows that the problem is caused by Internet Download Manager (IDM).…

Read more...

Reset scroll direction in OSX Lion

mouse-direction-lion-osx

After you installed new version of OSX Lion, you’ll notice that mouse/touchpad scroll reversely when you scroll web pages and some apps like Launchpad. It look very weird for me first time and I have to disable it by going to Setting Preferences -> Mouse -> Point & Click and tick off Scroll direction: natural.…

Read more...

Ask the Google Talk Guru

Guru Google Talk Chat

I use Google talk to connect with my family and friends. Most of my friends are using Gmail as primary email so Google talk (IM and Web based) is their default IM for them as well. Sometimes I want to know something like today’s currency exchange rate i need to open up the browser and…

Read more...

How to see updates of all of your contacts in Facebook

Facebook newsfeed

I just noticed that I see only the status messages, links and photos from friends whom I know them personally in Facebook. I did not realize that it is the default set by Facebook until I read a note shared by my friend in Facebook. What Facebook does is that News Feed on your facebook…

Read more...

How to download/backup your facebook profile

Download Facebook

Have you ever wonder of how you can download or backup your facebook profile, status messages, links, photos and even messages that you shared with your friends in Facebook? Facebook has a feature that allows you to download all those information in zipped format which contains messages, status, links, photos and messages. Click Account upper…

Read more...

How to remove older linux image from GRUB menu

Linux image GRUB remove

When you happened to upgrade ubuntu to newer version while you’re using dual boot, you may notice that GRUB menu shows not only the current linux kernel version but also older versions too. To remove those menus, you directly go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager and then find “linux-image” and leave the…

Read more...

How to remove installed fonts in Ubuntu

In newer versions of Ubuntu, font installation got easier than earlier versions. Just click the font file and click “Install” in font preview. But it doesn’t give you uninstall functionality. To remove the custom fonts that you installed in Ubuntu, open Terminal and type: cd /home/username/.fonts P.S: replace username with your username. Type ls so…

Read more...

How to change custom resolution in Ubuntu 10

I have been looking for the solution since I use Ubuntu 10 as an alternative OS with Windows. The only problem is that it doesn’t display correct resolution 1680×1050 for my 22″ HP Monitor (HPw2228h). I came across over this Xrandr Configuration from Ubuntu official documentation and this tread from Ubuntu Forum. Combine these two…

Read more...