Category Archives: miscellaneus

Installing MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu 11.10

Posted on December 4, 2011 by leogaggl

Thanks to Olivier Berten for providing this package via his PPA Repo ! sudo add-apt-repository ppa:olivier-berten/misc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench-gpl  

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Facebook – good riddance !

Posted on November 30, 2011 by leogaggl

Finally I made the effort to completely get rid of my Facebook Account. After initially getting a Facebook Account in the very early days (as an ‘occupational hazard’ to investigate the potential of Facebook Applications) I have always been suspect … Continue reading →

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Google Docs – custom styles

Posted on October 26, 2011 by leogaggl

One of the most annoying things in the recent ‘upgrade‘ of the Google Docs editor was the removal of the ‘Edit CSS’ and ‘Edit HTML’ functionality without any replacement (such as a Custom Styles Editor). Thanks to a discussion on … Continue reading →

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Install Microsoft Fonts on Ubuntu

Posted on October 26, 2011 by leogaggl

If you have kids going to school you will know these questions: Why can’t you have Microsoft Office ? I can not find ‘xyz’ font on this …. – why ? I have managed (after some time) to convince my … Continue reading →

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Alternatives to Google Adsense

Posted on October 22, 2011 by leogaggl

Due to a recent absolute Customer Service failure with Google Adsense I have done some research on the alternative to Google Adsense as a content-sensitive mobile and web advertisements. We are currently reviewing the following services: http://www.adbrite.com/ http://chitika.com http://www.admob.com/ https://pubcenter.microsoft.com/Login … Continue reading →

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GoogleApps (Gmail) as default Ubuntu mail client

Posted on April 24, 2011 by leogaggl

Keeping mail on a local machine does not make sense when working across a large number of different (vitual) devices. As a GoogleApps user I have long preferred browser based mail client as my default. Unfortunately this is not yet a … Continue reading →

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Find the direct link to a Twitter status update

Posted on April 5, 2011 by leogaggl

I sometimes need to link to a specific Twitter status update and since the recent upgrade (or as I personally see it downgrade) of the Twitter UI it is quite annoying to find the Status ID, as it can not … Continue reading →

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orange

Posted on January 31, 2010 by leogaggl
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horseshoe bay

Posted on January 24, 2010 by leogaggl
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Ubuntu – the ‘old man’ experiment

Posted on March 11, 2009 by leogaggl

Recently my father, who has so far not wanted to have anything to do with computers, decided to change all of this with age 67. While initially surprised (and remembering the comments I got when sitting in front of computers … Continue reading →

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