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10 Things To Do Just After Installing Ubuntu 7.10

Ubuntu is a very complete OS, especially the Gutsy Gibbon (7.10), but there are still make tweaks you can do just after installing it that will make Ubuntu shine like never. I will explain here some things I do just after have ubuntu installed. Remember that what I’ve written here are the best things to install for ME, you may consider not making some of them or installing many different things, but if so, please, share your wisdom with us all. :)

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The History of Programming Languages

Excellent reference of study to know about the 50 more common programming languages in the world.

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Cloning your HD on Windows

After readying this great tutorial, of how to clone your HD using a mac, I decided to write one tutorial showing how to do this if you are a windows users.
Lately I’ve been quite angry with my windows. So here’s a very easy and fast way to restore your windows settings without having to reinstall windows all again.
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7 cool things to do with a symbian enabled phone

Some weeks ago I’ve bought a nokia 6600 smart phone, great mobile with symbian OS. Since then I’m playing around with it, discovering how great is this operational system, BlueTooth, IR, Java and the MMC memory card. So I decided to write this article showing 7 cool things you can do with It.
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FeedTree: RSS via P2P

FeedTree is a P2P java app that uses distributed bandwidth to push RSS feed content to users faster than traditional newsreaders that poll their feeds on a schedule. A poster describes graphically how it works … which is not to say I fully understand it. But I do understand that speed and timeliness are the payoffs here. Currently the installations process and user interface are rough going; the developers promise improvements. My eyes glazed over reading the command-line and port-massaging requirements to get this thing running, but if such technicalities are up your alley, this looks like an interesting new spin on both P2P and RSS. via [p2pWeblog]

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HowTo: External Winamp Control

Nowadays, winamp have full support to keyboard shortcuts. But some time, when winamp didn’t have this feature, I was thinking in some way to make a easy way to change music by simply pressing one button, it would make things faster and would help me to change music during games. So I decided to make a external control painel, to make it easier to change musics, volume up or down, toggle shuffle and many other features by pressing just one button. I found one winamp plugin that shows how to configure a external control using the Serial Port, being able to make 4 or 15 buttons control. I decided to make this, step-by-step, how to do it, hope you enjoy.

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