Register blogspot.com with your google account in order to use the new feature which can integrate "Blogger in Draft" to your dashboard.
"Blogger in Draft" is something similar to google sandbox, users get to test the new features before the official launch and keep up all the news by enable "added this blog as a tab on the Blogger in Draft Dashboard".
To add Blogger in Draft to your Dashboard, simply check "Make Blogger in Draft my default dashboard" checkbox.
Source: http://draft.blogger.com/home
My condolences to his family, friends and audiences.
He is a brave guy, good teacher and inspirational speaker who famous with his "The Last Lecture" speech.
To know more about Randy Pausch:
wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
iGoogle sandbox is a develop site for iGoogle gadgets. If you are interested in building igoogle gadgets within iGoogle environment, plus you have some general familiarity with iGoogle, the Gadgets API, and JavaScript. You may want to register yourselves to iGoogle sandbox.
And for iGoogle users who wants to try out the new iGoogle layout may register as well. So you get to see the gadgets in large canvas views and adding useful gadgets to enrich you browsing experience.
A quick look on the iGoogle layout.
To register iGoogle sandbox, goto http://code.google.com/apis/igoogle/docs/gs.html and click on the "sign up for the sandbox" link.
The following are my favorate gadgets, let it become your favorate too :-D
- gmail
- google talk
- google reader
- google translate
- currency converter
- realtime forex live quote
- forex forecasts and analysis
- digg
- inspirational quotes and pictures
- how to of the day
Source: http://code.google.com/apis/igoogle
Ubuntu Hardy: Recently many users complaint about firefox 3 keep on crashing whenever they try to load flash content websites.
To solve this problem:
Solution
1) Install nspluginwrapper
sudo apt-cache search nspluginwrapper
sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper
or
wget http://www.chenhow.net/downloads/nspluginwrapper_0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2_i386.deb && \
dpkg -i nspluginwrapper_0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2_i386.deb
2) Install libflashsupport
sudo apt-get install libflashsupport
3) Reinstall flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
4) Restart firefox
5) Problem solved
Thotkeeper is an open-source, cross-platform diary/journal application using XML datafile format. If you like to keep a journal where you can write down anything interesting that you see or hear in life and don't want it to be publish. And you don't need features to add images, audio, beautiful theme and etc. You should go ahead and a give it a try.
It's just a simple application to keep your journal in your system. I use it to write my diary, as you know or may not know, writing a blog is not as easy as you think, you need to provides accurate information to your readers and need to put effort to decorate or design your page. So if you don't feel like putting so much effort to write a blog, you can use thotkeeper to write your diary instead.
To run Thotkeeper in Ubuntu:
Steps:
1) Download thotkeeper from http://thotkeeper.googlecode.com or thotkeeper
2) Extract the downloaded file to your desire location
3) Open a Termial and run the following command to install python and wxpython
apt-get install python python-wxversion
4) Go to the extracted folder and execute the following command to run thotkeeper
./thotkeeper #if not working, try python ./thotkeeper
5) Done (Easy isn't it)
Source: http://code.google.com/p/thotkeeper/