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If this is the first time you connect to facebook chat through XMPP, please read the note at the end of the Post Adium is one of the best Instant Messaging Client out there for Mac, it can be easily customized or themed, and it supports multiple Accounts and Instant Messaging Protocol. But for some reason, Facebook Chat doesn’t seem to work in Adium (with latest stable release 1.4.1), I can add my Facebook Account but it kept asking for authorization thus I can’t connect to Facebook chat. ...

Evolution Mail doesn’t have a feature to show all your mail account inbox in one inbox folder (or what is known as a Unified Inbox Folder), thus you need go to your mail account respective inbox folder to be able to read new mail messages , unlike Mac OS Maill app (and Thunderbird) which group all your inbox folder in one folder making it easy to read new mail. But luckily, Evolution has a feature called the Search Folder, by using this Search Folder we can create a Unified Inbox Folder for all your maill Account . It’s quite simple anyway, to do this follow the following steps: ...

This simple trick will enable you to watch YouTube Videos in Full Browser Window (it’s not Fullscreen), good for those who want to watch videos without getting distracted with other unnecessary items such as the Comments, Suggestions, Infos, etc but still be able to monitor other things in your desktop, such as IM, or maybe other browser tab. All you need to do is to edit the video URL ! For example, I’m going to watch the [Welcome to the Slow Mo Guys] video which can be found in this url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m6qTzKX_Pc ...

Install this tiny application in your Ubuntu to keep track of your Clipboard history , this tiny application will reside at your indicator-applet, it’s very easy and simple to use. It also support plugins to boost up the application features itself ! To Install this application in Ubuntu, open the Terminal and type in the following commands: Ubuntu 10.04 or older and 11.04: sudo apt-get glipper Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick [Latest Natty build ppa for Maverick from webupd8]: ...

There’s an official Twitter application available for mac which you can get for free, but sadly you can only get it from Mac App store, which is available in Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later. So, last night I decided to update my Snow Leopard from 10.6.5 to 10.6.6. The updating process is rather easy and doesn’t require much effort, I just need to make a backup of 10.6.5 mach_kernel and a few kexts, just as what I did when updating from 10.6.3 to 10.6.5 (written in this guide). Continue reading to find out . . . ...

I’m running Mac OS X Snow Leopard from my eeePC 1005HA and as you know, eeePC has a very low screen resolution (1024x600) . This make some applications window/interface not visible thus making some options or buttons unusable/unclickable . An example is the Print window from Microsoft Office as shown in the picture below. To be able to view the whole window I need to increase my screen resolution to a higher resolution, but it’s not possible to further increase the screen resolution in my eeePC since 1024x600 is the max resolution that I can get . ...

I’ve been using Trillian as my default Instant Messaging to log in to multiple services such as Yahoo Messenger, MSN, and Facebook Chat. But what I noticed is that every time I receive messages from contacts on Facebook Chat, the message will appear both at Trillian and Facebook Web page . It may not be a big problem, but it’s kinda annoying for me (well, at least that’s what I think ). ...

In Firefox you can easily edit site cookies using Add N Edit Cookies or Edit Cookies Add-on. But in Opera you don’t have to install any extensions, plugins or add-ons to be able to edit Cookies for specific site since this feature is already built in Opera. I’m going to show you how to edit Cookies in Opera using various ways. The First Method In Opera you can edit any Cookies for site that you’ve visited from the “Preferences”. ...

This is a simple tutorial that I write to easily remove the default gnome-panel in your Ubuntu. There are two ways that I know to remove the gnome-panel, I’m going to tell you how this can be done using either of the method. Let’s get started . The First Method This is the easiest method to remove the gnome-panel , but there’s a little disadvantage using this method (see below for more information). ...

I know it’s easy to create a new wireless network on your by simply going to Airport Status Bar at the top screen and hit the “Create Network…”, but what if you would like your mac to automatically create and ad-hoc network every time at startup or maybe making it simple for you to create an ad-hoc network by just running an applescript instead of repeating over and over the same process via the Airport Status Bar. Either way, here’s how you do it: ...