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How to use Pidgin IM to chat with Gtalk, Facebook friends

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So, you use Gtalk and Yahoo messenger to chat with your gmail and ymail contact lists and signing in to Facebook to chat with your Facebook friends. You can have all of your Gtalk, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace friends at single place and can chat with them whenever they come ON in the web. This can be made possible by using any of the Instant Messenging application like Pidgin. All you need to do is configuring those softwares correctly. UPDATE on 17/09/2015: Pidgin will no longer work for Facebook as Facebook disabled its XMPP Chat API from April 30th, 2015. What is an Instant Messenger aka IM Instant messenger is an application which lets you chat with your friends of different social networking sites and alike services whenever they are online. Pidgin Pidgin is one of the best IMs available in the internet. It supports AIM, ICQ, Facebook, GTalk, Yahoo, Myspace and many more. You need to add the required account that's all. Pidgin will do the rest. You can sign-in to multiple accoun...

10 reasons why you must try using linux

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Obviously, Windows is the predominant operating system in this galaxy. But It has it's own errors and flaws. People don't even care about this because they are used to it. They tend to do anything to fix their windows system problems. Alternatively they can try using other operating systems(i.e..Linux). The objective of this post is to explain you the advantages of linux operating system. So in this post I'm going to explain you why you must try Linux. I have listed 10 reasons which I found in my real life experience with linux. Hope this post will help you in any way. #10. You can delete windows viruses without any antivirus softwares Assume, you gave a usb drive to your friend. If he use that usb in an infected pc It is enough to fill your usb drive with viruses. If you havean outdated antivirus program in your windows system this will make things worse. Anything may happen to your pc. You can expect following things: Your system will take too long time to respond. Import...

Simple guide to create openSUSE bootable USB

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Making a bootable live openSUSE USB is not that much easy as creating live USBs of other linux distributions but an elegant linux distribution deserves that. So to simplify things I have created this post with screenshots. There is a guide located in the openSUSE official website. But newbies will find it difficult to follow that guide. Many users will try to use unetbootin to create live USB but it won't work for the openSUSE versions above 11.1. Windows users For windows users there is an application sized 31KB called SUSE Studio Image Writer . Open that application. WARNING: After this operation the data in the USB will be deleted permanently. So backup your data from the USB device. Now press select button. Here I have put the downloaded openSUSE image file in desktop. Select the path where the .iso file is in. Enter *.* in the file name. Then press open. Now your image file will become visible. Select your .iso image file and press open. Now select Copy. Then select Yes. I...

Clipboard manager for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android

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Almost 65% of the world people use digital devices daily. And we have been doing copy paste operations with this devices. We copy texts from internet or mp3s from our friend's pendrive and paste it to memory storage devices. This post is all about how to perform this copy paste operations more efficient than ever before by making use of clipboard managers. What is a clipboard manager? Clipboard mangers are nothing but small applications that saves the history of the things we copied irrespective of whether it is a file or text and retrieves that from our system's memory whenever it is needed. You can save upto 1000 entries (depending upon the application you use) and paste whenever needed. It means you can even paste the mobile number of your friend that you copied 4 months earlier. Assume you are filling an application form, in that form you have to enter your and your dad's e-mail id several times. What will you do? Do you have time to copy and paste the e-mail ids every...