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Google Gears For Firefox 3.5

For Windows and Linux versions, check out these custom extension builds from Gears Google Group. If you are Mac OS X users you can get it on Google Code.
I’ve tested the Mac version, so far everthing’s working as expected. I believe official builds by Google will be coming very soon if you’re happy to wait. [...]

Firefox PDF Plugin For Mac OS X

Requires Firefox 3 and Mac OS 10.4 or higher.
Get it! http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/

Smart Sleep

SmartSleep is a preference pane that dynamically sets the sleep state of your macbook (pro).
4 states available for you to choose :
1. sleep : machine will go to sleep only (saves state in RAM only, battery keeps RAM contents)
2. sleep & hibernate : machine sleeps and hibernates. (default)
3. hibernate only : machine will go [...]

How to enable “root” user in Mac OS X

If you migrate from linux based operating system to Mac OS X (which is also unix based os), you’ll be missed your root account. It is because “root” user is disabled by default because it’s so special. But you can enable your “root” account in Mac OS X.
1. From the Finder’s Go menu, choose Utilities.
2. [...]

How to setup Huawei USB E169 Modem On Mac OS X

1. Download Huawei USB Driver.
http://homepage.mac.com/timhaigh/E220_Drivers.zip
2. Make sure your huawei not connected with your machine. Install driver MacDriver(2.7)-intel.pkg
3. Plug-in your huawei USB.
4. Go to “System Preferences / Network / Location / Edit Locations” and add a new location named “HSDPA” for example.
5. Select Huawei Mobile. Add new configuration, example “Celcom”.
Telephone Number [...]

BarCampJB Was Kewl

Greetings from Kota Kinabalu!
I am now in Kota Kinabalu. Last saturday I was in Johor Bahru, attended #barcampjb. And it was aaaawesome. These are some photos I took during the event.

More photos in myflickr. I also giving a session on facebook apps development. Thanks to Amran for his intro on facebook dev. We’re [...]

Barcamp JB

Barcamp comes to the Johor Baru city 6th – 7th December 2008. BarcampJB is an ad-hoc unconference and it is part of the Barcamp Malaysia movement. It is an intense community event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to [...]

How To Get Huawei E169 To Work On Ubuntu

I just bought Huawei E169 to replace my Huawei E220. It doesn’t work out of the box but I able to get it to work on ubuntu 8.10 with a little tweak. Photo above shows how it looks like with my Thinkpad X61.
1. Download usb_modeswitch.
wget http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/usb-modeswitch_0.9.5_i386.deb
2. Install it.
sudo dpkg -i usb-modeswitch_0.9.5_i386.deb
3. Save this script [...]