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Adobe Flash Player 10.2 released

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 has been released and comes with some spanking new features.

It now supports Stage Videos which allows Flash to utilize your machines’s hardware acceleration features thus greatly improving performance.

10.2 also introduces support for multiple monitors. No more headaches when trying to multi-task while watching a video, this is when you can only play flash videos on one screen and not the other.

Another cool feature is the support for native mouse cursors. Developers can now design and implement custom cursors for their work. I see this really useful for educational software.

And finally some sub-pixel rendering to improve text in your flash videos. Advertisers will love this more…..

Let your browser update your flash player or grab it manually from Adobe.

If you’re on Ubuntu, simply run the command below to get updated.

#> sudo apt-get update
#> sudo apt-get upgrade

Google’s Jules Verne 183rd birthday Doodle

This has to be amongst the coolest Google doodles out there. It’s to celebrate Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday.

If you didn’t already know, Jules Verne‘s the man behind the well known Novells Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in Eighty Days.

Use the joystick control on the right to navigate the GOOGLE submarine around , cool ha?

Source: Google

Ubuntu countdown android widget

This is for all you Ubuntu loving Android users out there. It’s a cool Ubuntu countdown widget  for your android. Comes in 2 sizes too, 1×1 and 2×2.

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How to reset your Gnome desktop

So you messed up the Gnome desktop and don’t know how to restore it back to it’s default settings. Here’s how with no risks.

1. Log out and then hit “Ctrl + ALT + F1″ to opening up a terminal.

2. Delete the following directories.

.gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity

Or run the this command.

rm -rf rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity

3. “Ctrl + ALT + F7/F8″ and log in as usual.

This guide is based on Ubuntu 10.10

Firefox tweak: Use Ram as Cache

By design Firefox will use your disk as cache. However, if you have a good amount of RAM available you could quickly improve Firefox’s performance by telling it disable disk caching and only use RAM.

Here’s how you do it;

1. in your URL bar type in “about:config”. this will bring up the config page.

2. Using the filter box, lookup “browser.cache.disk.enable”. Change its value to “False” by double clicking on it.

3. Using the filter box again, lookup “browser.cache.memory.enable” . Change its value to “True” by double clicking on it.

browser.cache.disk.enable to False
browser.cache.memory.enable to True