Musaul Karim

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• NYT – Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
  The New York Times has an account from a former Microsoft Vice President, Dick Brass, on why the company is no longer an innovator. It’s an interesting read. […]
• FIX: Firefox 3.6 not starting in Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha (Lucid Lynx)
  I got Firefox 3.6 in a Lucid alpha update on 27 January. The problem is that it wouldn’t start. I tried it with a new profile, which made it work. So I ran firefox with the -safe-mode argument and disabled all add-ons. Then in firefox, I tried each add-on to figure out which one’s weren’t [...] […]
• Thunderbird 3.0 is officially available!
  Mozilla have released the new major version of Thunderbird. It has huge improvements in the interface. First of all, the inboxes of all your mail accounts are grouped together and they’ve been moved to the top. You can also view a collated list of emails from all your accounts by clicking on the top level [...] […]
• Nocturne – showing the lowlight video prowess of the new Canon 1D-mk4
  Another canon demo video shot by Vincent Laforet. This was shot at night, using only available light. […]
• How to disable kvm and kvm_intel to allow VirtualBox to run
  If you are getting the VirtualBox can’t operate in VMX root mode error dialog shown below … … it is because you have the kvm and kvm_intel kernel modules enabled. You will need to unload them using the following commands: sudo modprobe -r kvm_intel sudo modprobe -r kvm You should now be able to start your Virtual Machine. If you [...] […]
• Wolfram Alpha is not Skynet
  Mashable has a few easter eggs for the Wolfram Alpha search engine. Here’s one more … […]
• GkSpk Wordled!
  This site’s most prominent words according to wordle.net. Your browser doesn’t seem to understand the APPLET tag. You need to install and enable the Java plugin. According to the site’s blurb: Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. [. […]
• You have a todo list but never look at it?
  Remindr is an online service where you simply add what you need to do and when and how you want to be reminded. It supports twitter, jabber and email. And there’s no need to log in! […]
• Royalty Free Clipart
  Need some free clipart for your web site or presentation? Instead of sticking with the same old pictures that came with powerpoint, why not check out some fresh ones at WPClipart? They have thousands of images, most of which are in PNG format. You can browse through the categories and find what you’re looking for, or [...] […]
• Reverie – HD video recorded with a Canon 5D mark II
  This camera takes simply gorgeous footage! This is a video by Vincent Laforet. Best watched Full screen. […]