Damien Oh

Damien Oh is the owner and chief editor of Make Tech Easier

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Add a Personal Favor To Your Firefox

By | July 30, 2008 |

Creating a Firefox theme has always been a designer and coder job. If you are one of those who wanted to create your own theme, without learning the coding skill, then Personas For Firefox is going to make it very simple for you.

Personas For Firefox is a Firefox extension that allows you to easily create and change theme for your browser, and to personalize it so that you can truly call it your own. You don’t need to be a designer or coder. As long as you have some simple photo editing skill, you can start to create your own personas.

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Desktop Drapes: Another GNOME Wallpaper Changer

By | July 29, 2008 |

We have covered several wallpaper changers for GNOME. Here is another one to add to the list.

Desktop Drapes is a simple wallpaper manager application for the GNOME desktop. It can automatically pick up any new wallpapers you have added to a directory and randomly change your wallpaper at regular interval, or whenever you fell like it.

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Make Your Ubuntu Desktop Rotate As a Cylinder/Sphere

By | July 28, 2008 |

For Linux users those who like to impress their friends with the the awesome Compiz eye candy and desktop effects, here is another new trick that you can show: make your desktop rotate as a cylinder or sphere.

With the release of latest version of Compiz Fusion 0.7.6, many new plugins and eye candys have been added. Rather than the usual desktop cube rotation, you can now rotate your desktop as cylinder or sphere.

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WordPress 2.6 Theme Changing Issue

By | July 26, 2008 |

If you have upgraded to WordPress 2.6, some of you might find that when you change theme, the preview page shows a blank page rather than the actual design. I have highlighted this when I was writing a review on WordPress 2.6 beta 2.

It seems that there is some conflicts between the plugins and the theme preview page. As of now, there is no detail as to which particular plugin is causing the conflict. If you are having the blank page issue, you might want to deactivate your plugins one by one and check the theme preview page.

Some known plugins that are causing the conflicts are Bowob chat and Stray Random Quotes plugin

8 Web Apps That Can Easily Replace Your Desktop (Apps)

By | July 26, 2008 |

Initially I thought that Web apps are just applications on the Web and they should not replace the desktop apps. How wrong am I. As I spent more and more time online and started to collaborate projects with other bloggers, it is then that I discover the true mobility and flexibility of the Web apps. When I formatted my hard disk last month, other than Firefox, I have really no urge to install any of the desktop apps, especially the OpenOffice which I like it a lot in the past.

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Turn Your Ubuntu Hardy to Mac OSX Leopard

By | July 23, 2008 |

Updated: The updated version of this tutorial for Ubuntu Intrepid can be found at Turn Ubuntu Intrepid into Mac Leopard.

You can’t really turn a Linux system to a Mac, but you definitely can make your Ubuntu Hardy looks like a Mac OSX Leopard.

If you want to change this

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5 Reasons Why You Should Use VirtualBox Over VMware Server

By | July 21, 2008 |

Ever since I started using Ubuntu two years back, I have been an avid user of VMware server. It fascinated me to a great extent that I could actually run an OS inside an OS. Recently, I tried out VirtualBox, another virtualization software like VMware server, and I was greatly impressed by it. Even though I love VMware server, I can’t deny the fact that VirtualBox actually runs faster and smoother, with less crashes. Here is my top 5 reasons why VirtualBox is better than VMware server.

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Toodledo: The Killer Task Management Application

By | July 18, 2008 |

Toodledo

Toodledo is a simple and easy to use online task manager which aims to help you become more organized, stay motivated and more productive. While there are many to-do list applications around, Toodledo stands out among the rest because of it has plenty of ‘killer‘ features. Read on for the review.

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10 Free Mac applications You Can’t Live Without

By | July 17, 2008 |

There are thousand of great applications for the Mac OSX, and many of them come with a price. For someone who are used to using open-source software, or just don’t feel like paying the money for every single app, here is a list of the top 10 free applications that you (seriously) cannot live without. Rest assure that they are not any worst than the paid apps, some of them are even better.

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KeyTouch: Regain The Full Functionality Of Your Keyboard

By | July 16, 2008 |

keyboard-picIt can be very frustrating to buy a brand new keyboard with tons of function keys only to find out that your Linux OS does not support them. Although your keyboard package might come with a CD-ROM that contains the configuration software, it is most likely to be Windows-based and there is no way you can get it to load in Linux.

KeyTouch is the solution to this problem. It allows you to easily configure the extra function keys of your keyboard and define for every individual function key what to do when it is pressed.

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