Category: Tips/Tricks

  • How to download/backup your facebook profile

    How to download/backup your facebook profile

    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…

  • How to remove older linux image from GRUB menu

    How to remove older linux image from GRUB menu

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Upload photos to Twitter via Flickr

    Flickr did not tell that they have a new service to post your photos to Twitter from Flickr directly. If you have both Flickr and Twitter account, just login to Flickr and follow this link (http://www.flickr.com/account/blogs/add/twitter) and allow Flickr service in your Twitter account. Then Flickr will give you the email address to you that…

  • SEO Tip: Bold, Italic tags and Search Engine Optimization

    Nowadays, many bloggers are trying to optimize their blogs in search engine as well as blogging. I myself also tried some of the techniques that I learned from internet to optimize my site too. Today, I just came across an interesting article about the basic of Search Engine Optimization explained that Bold text <b>/<strong> is…

  • How to allow more than one port for SSH in Linux

    Normally we’re using port number 22 for SSH. If you want to change default port number from 22 to other port number or add another ports for SSH, you can edit in sshd_config under /etc/ssh. To edit sshd_config file, type the following in Terminal or SSH client (SSH Secure Shell or Putty). nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config or…

  • How to remove image caption in WordPress 2.6

    New version of wordpress 2.6 includes Image captioning feature that automatically adds caption under your images like in BBC and CNN news site. It is pretty good if you like. But what if you don’t want to put little caption under your image? Here is a very simple trick. Switch to HTML mode Remove the…

  • Download media files with Safari Browser

    Safari browser has powerful tool called Activity that tracks all the activities running behind the page. That makes you easier to download media files from the page you’re visiting. First, open Safarai browser and browse the address you like to download media file (mp3 or flv). For example : YouTube. Click Activity menu under Windows…

  • How to run php script in shell

    If you want to run php script in shell, simply put the following line at the beginning of your php file. #!/path/to/php #!/path/to/php is the path you installed php in linux. If you don’t know where php is installed in your linux. Type the following command which php This will output the php path from…