Monday, July 7, 2008

Firefox won't load - easy solution

There are now many ads-on or extension offered for your Firefox web browser. After you installed one or two, suddenly your Firefox won't run normally, it keeps transferring data and never ends. Don't be scared, you'll be alright, I had this problem before and here is the solution. In my case, my Firefox misbehave after I installed ReminderFox. It's a handy event reminder but eventually I have to uninstalled it.
So here is the solution of the problem (I assume you use Ubuntu, similar procedure probably can be done too for other OS or Linux distro):
1. Run Firefox in safe mode, type in your terminal
firefox -safe-mode
2. You'll be prompted with several option to what state you will put your Firefox to, in my case, I disable the extension.
3. Then press OK.
That's it.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Event Reminder


If you ever need simple though handy event reminder on your computer, you may try ReminderFox. It's an add-ons for Firefox browser that's compatible with Firefox 1.0 to 3.0. You can install it from your Firefox by clicking Tools>Add-ons then find ReminderFox. It's easy to set your events. After install, by default it's going to appear on the status bar of yout Firefox (right buttom). By right clicking your mouse you will find some options. Good luck.


If you like Tomboy, you can add an addin to it to work as a reminder. Do these steps:
1. Download the addin from here http://flukkost.nu/blog/tomboy-reminder/ . It's easiest to work with the binary.
2. Move the binary to ~/.tomboy/addins
3. Enable the addin. Open Tomboy, click Edit>Preferences>Add-ins>Tools>Reminder>Enable. Please see the screenshot.

For Window Vista users, after you install Tomboy and download the addin (go to here http://flukkost.nu/blog/tomboy-reminder/), then you need to place the file (tomboy-reminder.dll) to this directory: %APPDATA%\Tomboy\config\addins
I tried to install Tomboy on my Vista and add the reminder addin; it works, it really does.
Good luck!

Thursday, July 3, 2008

CD Burner Software for Linux

Which one is the best CD burner software for Linux or Ubuntu specifically? There are many softwares for doing the task if you search through Synaptic in Ubuntu such as Bresero, Gnomebaker, cdrdao, etc. But so far, the best program (according to my experience) is K3B which is developed for KDE desktop environment but also works on Gnome. It is easy to use because it is working under GUI. Though, I had few bad experiences when burning data to DVD using K3B. A few times I failed to use the program.