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I am a great fan and a user of mozilla thunderbird. I have used different mail clients like microsoft outlook, opera mail, zimbra mail client, etc. I tested them all for 2 weeks or more and ended up with thunderbird. One think I like about thunderbird is that you can add new features to it for free through their add-ons. Aside from the add-ons mozilla is active and updates are always there for free. Part of my work is to [...]

Facebook has the largest population on the world wide web and it has a viral effect on distributing data. They have a lot of ways to pass data from one user to the other and one is by tagging pictures. When facebook started this feature it was so hard to tag friends because you need to tag them one by one and its a time consuming way of letting your friends know that they exist in a picture and now [...]

When updating to the latest version of virtualbox which is version 4.0.10 errors will appear when try to startup your virtual machine. This happens when you want USB2.0 support for your virtual machine. To fix the error you need to download the VirtualBox 4.0.10 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack, the file has an extension of .vbox-extpack which is a VirtualBox extension package. The extension pack is usable to all platform, I used the extension on windows 7 ultimate version. The [...]

Yesterday a friend of mine ask if I know how remove his windows 7 WAT so he could explore more with his windows 7 Operating System.  I told him that I have a tool to remove Windows XP Windows Genuine Advantage but I can help him find a tool for it and told him that he’d rather buy a genuine one because we can really never make sure that if we find one it will be permanent but he insisted [...]

The latest versions of skype which is version 5 doesn’t work on windows 7 64bit and also on windows 7 32 bit platform.  I searched for the version which works on windows 7 and it led me to version 3.6 which works  very well.  I am now using it on my desktop running windows 7 ultimate 64bit.   You can download it on the link provided below: Click here to download   Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook [...]

Yesterday I bought a new phone, the model was Samsung GT-S3653W and there was no data cable with it.  All I have is to transfer data through bluetooth.   This is my first time to use my laptop’s bluetooth device with a Linux Ubuntu 10.* Operating System.  Bluetooth comes with the box when I installed ubuntu.  The problem is that both my cell phone and laptop’s bluetooth device don’t see each other.  To solve the problem I found this site which [...]

Pidgin is a free chat client that can handle different chat networks like yahoo, google talk, AIM, AOL and many more all at once.  But one important thing that is not found in pidgin by default is Facebook’s chat.  To be able to add facebook on your pidgin, you just need to do some simple steps. 1.  Download the needed files and extract 2.  Install pidgin-facebookchat-1.68.exe 3.  Copy libjson-glib-1.0.dll on the plugins folder found on the directory where pidgin is [...]