Gedit is the official text editor for GNOME desktop. While it is simple and easy to use, it is actually much more powerful than what it seems to be.

In the event that you need to migrate your current WordPress blog to a new server, or a new URL, the last thing that you want to do is to reinstall WordPress on your new server and reconfigure the setting all over again.

While you can use the export/import function under the ‘Manage‘ menu to migrate your database over, it is definitely not the best and ideal solution, especially if you have a huge database. In addition, if any of your plugins created their own databases, they aren’t going to be migrated by the export/import function.

The Need to Defrag the Windows Registry

If you monitor the registry of your system using a tool, you will see that it is accessed by your Windows operating system and programs installed on it more than a hundred times every second. Therefore, if your registry is fragmented and slow in responding to requests for information, it directly affects the performance of your PC and slows it down. This is the reason why it is important for you to keep your registry free from unwanted files and defrag it regularly to speed up your PC and maintain it at its optimal performance.

Owning a Mac is cool and I do feel proud about it, but seeing how some Mac users take their Mac for granted pissed me off. This post serves to vent my frustration and also as a guideline to teach others how to handle their Macs (and themselves).

Didn’t like the plain black Windows Vista boot screen graphics? Here is a simple trick to beautify your boot screen.

There is actually a nice boot screen call “Aurora” hidden behind the actual boot screen. To enable it:

After much consideration, you have decided to switch to Ubuntu as your primary operating system.

You download the Ubuntu Live CD iso, burn into CD, boot it up and do a live install. When you finally boot into the new OS, start to use the browser and find that you can’t watch video on Youtube, or when you wanted to listen to mp3 and find that the format is not supportable, you start to wonder if you have make the right choice in switching to Ubuntu.

One of the challenges that new Linux users face is the using of bash command on the terminal. Even though some Linux distro (such as Ubuntu Gutsy) has improved the user interface a great extent and reduced the need to execute applications via command line, there will still be cases where using the command line terminal is required.

As a Linux newbie, there are some commands that you may want to acquaint with.

For whatever reason, you obtained a copy of Windows Vista without the license key, here is what you can do to use that unlicensed OS for a year.

When you install Vista, you actually get 30 days of trial before the OS requires you for a license key. Failure to key in the correct serial will lock the OS down till you entered the right key. With a simple fix, you can reset the 30 days trial up to eight times.

Last December, Mozilla released their second beta of Firefox 3 for public testing. This version fixed over 900 bugs over the previous version and included many new features. I took the opportunity to download it and test it on my Windows VM.

Once the beta version is downloaded and installed in my Windows, I launched it from my Start menu, expecting to see a complete difference in the interface. I were disappointed, because the beta 2 interface looks actually like Firefox 2, and I have to double check that I did install the Firefox 3 beta version.

The Tab function is already a ‘must-have’ in all browsers, why not make it a feature in your window explorer too?

QT TabBar is a small program that allows you to add Tabs to your Window Explorer.

Download the file.

Unzipped it.

Right click on the installer and select “Run as administrator“.

Once the installation finished, log off your account, and log on again.

Open your Window explorer. Right click on the menu bar and add QT TabBar.

Done.

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