Author Archives: Krishna Chaitanya Mandava

Long break

Been away for a long time. Was busy with school and then with my new message board at www.MozFire.com It runs on vBulletin and I have been trying to avoid the mistakes I did on the previous forum www.mozillalive.com

How to open Gmail Composer in a new window

shift + ‘c’ or shift + click on ‘Compose Mail’ shift + ‘r’ or shift + ‘reply’ shift + ‘a’ or shift + ‘reply all’ shift + ‘f’ or shift + ‘forward’ Keyboard shortcuts are not case-sensitive

Stop spam in its tracks

I’ll be posting some Gmail tips over the next few days. Gmail has a pretty good spam filter. You can do your part when you give out your email id. When you sign up on websites use ‘username+websitename@gmail.com’. Gmail ignores everything after the + symbol. So, when you get spam just create a filter to …

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Technorati

eGuru is now Technorati indexed. Technorati Profile

Dell issues OS refund to linux user

Dell refunded 55.23 pounds ($105) to a UK based customer, who prefers Linux to windows and refused to accept the Microsoft End User License Agreement. Dave Mitchell never booted windows on his Dell Inspiron 640m laptop and refused to accept the EULA, and has since received a refund from Dell Corporation. Read the original articles …

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Mozillalive.com is the unofficial community for Mozilla users. Google, Gmail, Orkut, Jotspot, Proxomitron, MSN Live are some of the issues of importance here.  Members play a lot of forum games, exchange ideas, share tips & tricks, and win prizes.  This forum supports Open Source, Linux as well as the latest trends on the world wide …

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Now if you are wondering why I call myself an eGuru, its very simple- I’m a jack of all trades but master of none.

PHP

Decided to play a more active role in promoting PHP both on my forums as well as outside. I wasn’t late in joining the bandwagon but time constraints have prevented me from giving my best to it. I plan to start a forum that addresses issues on networking, PHP, and security solutions. This is a …

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Instant Linux

Looking for a way to run Linux without the hassles of installation? Run Linux right from your CD drive. Maximum PC has tested various packages and narrowed down to just three. Knoppix www.knoppix.net Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org  Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com Knoppix has been very useful at work, where I test computer equipment. It loads in a jiffy …

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Anti-Clemency Forum

I found an interesting forum which wanted Indians to vote on whether clemency should be awarded to Afzal who was awarded the death sentence for the attack on the Indian Parliament. Touch issue…. Visit the site and vote on it. It has received a good response already. Only two days left for the hanging. http://acf.zeeblo.com/