In Firefox on Linux Mint, Google is not in the list of search engines supported. How to add Google in Firefox on Linux Mint? Check this tutorials to add Google in Firefox on Linux Mint: How to Add Google to Firefox in Linux Mint as Default Search Engine
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Where to search and download free images?
Posted onWhere to search and download some free and nice images to be used on my websites? The best one for searching the free images is still Google. Google Image Search has a “Advanced Image Search” where you can choose the usage rights. Choose the “free to use, share, or modify, even commercially” option will lead
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How to install Chrome on Fedora Linux?
Posted onHow to install the Chrome browser on Fedora Linux from Google? Google provides a repository for yum/dnf on Fedora. First, following http://www.systutorials.com/3471/additional-repositories-for-fedora-linux/#google-chrome-repository to add Google Chrome repository. Then, you can install Google Chrome by yum/dnf: # dnf install google-chrome-stable
How to export Google Chrome password on Linux?
Posted onHow to export my Google Chrome password on Linux to a human-readable text file? In newer versions of Chrome, the passwords are stored using the encrypted password storage provided by the system, either Gnome Keyring or KWallet. We need to force Chrome to use a temporary profile folder with unencrypted password storage. Step 1. Connect
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How to find out the MX record for a domain on Linux?
Posted onHow to find out a domain’s MX record for Email on Linux? For example, to find which domain/IP the email to gmail.com is delivered to. You may make use of the host command. The -t option is used to select the query type. type can be any recognized query type: CNAME, NS, SOA, SIG, KEY,
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How to make AdSense responsive ads show rectangle ads instead of horizontal ones?
Posted onI noticed that many sites with AdSense responsive ads show large rectangle ads (336px x 280px) or large rectangle text ads (full width x 280px). However, in my own website (640px width content area), it shows most of time horizontal ones. How to make AdSense responsive ads show rectangle ads instead of horizontal ones? At
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Max number of Emails allowed to Sent from Gmail SMTP per day
Posted onGmail’s SMTP is convenient. You “sender” needs not to be always your Gmail address (but the emails will include your Gmail address in the header “send by”). I am wondering how many emails at maximum can I send each day through Gmail’s SMTP. Here there a nice recent list of the sending limits of the
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How to redirect WordPress search query to Google CSE?
Posted onHow to redirect WordPress search query to Google CSE? You can configure Google CSE to read the query variable (by default, it is q). Then, in your WordPress’s .htaccess file, add these 2 lines RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^s=(.*)$ RewriteRule ^ https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=xyz&q=%1 [R,L] Here, “https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=xyz” is your CSE’s public URL or the webpage that contains the Google
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How to automatically post blog RSS feed to Google plus pages?
Posted onI have a blog with RSS feeds. Feeding to twitter and facebook is supported by many tools. But for the Google plus page, it seems not straightforward. How to automatically post blog RSS feed to Google plus pages? You can use Hootsuite to post blogs through RSS feeds to your Google plus pages. First, register
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How to fix “Your profile could not be opened correctly.” on Linux?
Posted onI experience the program on Linux (Fedora 12) that Chrome reports “Your profile could not be opened correctly.” as follows. How to fix it? Restarting Chrome would not help. Removing the ‘Web Data’ directories from all profiles works for me (Making backup first as the commands will remove your files): cd ~/.config/google-chrome find ./ -name
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Good Cinnamon theme for Fedora 21 Linux?
Posted onAny suggestion on good theme configuration for Fedora 21 Linux? My favorite combination of Window borders, Icons, Controls, Mouse Pointer and Desktop is as follows. All packages and themes are from Fedora repository or the Cinnamon repository. Remember to set the cursor theme for QT application like Google Chrome following: https://www.systutorials.com/4068/configuring-mouse-cursor-style-for-qt-applications-in-gnome-mate-desktop/ For this configuration, the
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How can I recover deleted photos from samsung?
Posted onHow can I recover deleted photos from samsung? You may try PhotoRec. A step by step tutorial can be found here. There are similar software. You can google them. Have you retrieved your lost photos from Galaxy? If not, you can follow the steps below to get some back. Hope it helps you somewhat. Stop
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What’s the difference between Reliability, Durability, and Availability for data storage system?
Posted onSome important concepts in distributed system like Hadoop distributed file system, Google file system and so on. Answer from http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-Reliability-Durability-and-Availability-for-data-storage-system The difference between durability and availability is fairly simple. Durability is about what happens when all power goes out everywhere. Has all data been written to stable storage that doesn’t require power (e.g. disk/flash), in
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How to import a googlecode git project to github project
Posted onI wanna migrate leveldb (code.google.com/p/leveldb) to my github repository. Create a new repo on github.com with this link https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-new-repository git clone https://code.google.com/p/ project-name.git Set the remote origin url as follows: git remote set-url origin https://github.com/ username/ repo-name.git git pull to pull the latest. git push origin master after making local changes. This is the original
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Running Chrome over SSH tunnel
Posted onHow to run Chrome on remote host over a SSH tunnel? This way, I can access resource that can only be accessed inside the remote host’s network. Running Chrome over a SSH tunnel is much easier than running Firefox over SSH from a Linux host: First, ssh to the remote host with -X option: ssh
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How to change the mode for simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese mode in ibus-libpinyin?
Posted onHow to change the mode for simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese mode in ibus-libpinyin? What is the shortcut like “Ctrl+.” for switching full width or half width punctuation. Use shortcut “Ctrl + Shift + F”. In ibus-pinyin version 1.3.7, this shortcut is added: 2010-05-28 ibus-pinyin 1.3.7 stable release Add Ctrl + Shift + F to
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How to detect memory leaks of C programs in Linux?
Posted onHow to detect memory leaks of C programs in Linux? I also have access to the source code of the program. There are many posts related to this: Easy and quick tools on Linux (while not very accurate): http://blog.thewebsitepeople.org/2011/03/linux-memory-leak-detection/ Valgrind: manual and a tutorial. gperftools has the Google Heap Profiler which can checks for memory
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How to @import a css file only for wide screens
Posted onHow to @import a css file, such as for an open fonts hosted by Google, only for wide screens, such as with px of larger than 846? A piece of css that you can use: @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300italic,400italic,700italic,300,400,700,900) (min-width:846px) This import Open Sans fonts for only screens of at least 846 px.
How to upgrade Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 through the network?
Posted onHow to upgrade Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 through the network? The tool for Fedora to upgrade the distribution is FedUp. Check this page for how to upgrade Fedora 19 to Fedora 20: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.3F Be sure to check the bugs in Fedora 20 before the upgrading: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs#Upgrade_issues Generally, it contains 3 steps: Preparation # yum
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Other Mobile Messengers Like WhatsApp
Posted onWhat other mobile messengers like WhatsApp in the market? Messneger Apps focusing on mobile phones WhatsApp: http://www.whatsapp.com/ WeChat: http://www.wechat.com/en/ Kik: http://kik.com/ Kakao Talk: http://www.kakao.com/talk/en LINE: http://line.me/en/ Other “general” messengers that also have mobile clients Google Hangouts: http://www.google.com/ /learnmore/hangouts/ Facebook Messenger: https://www.facebook.com/mobile/messenger Skype: http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-mobile/