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How to enable extensions for Safari 5

Jul 20

Posted by shawn in Browser, Windows | No Comments

If you’ve downloaded Safari 5 to try some extensions, maybe you will see the dialog of “Safari cannot install this extension”, because “Extensions are disabled”. So what you gonna do? Here is a simple steps to help you out.

  1. click the “Safari” on your menu bar.
  2. click preferences menu item.
  3. click advanced tab.
  4. check the box marked Show Develop menu in menu bar
  5. click the develop menu and then click enable extensions

The image below shows on Safari 5 on Mac OS and Windows.
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Open Hardware Monitor

Jul 17

Posted by shawn in Windows | No Comments

The Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source application that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer. It supports most hardware monitoring chips found on todays mainboards like the ITE, Winbond and Fintek families. The CPU temperature can be monitored by reading the core temperature sensors of Intel and AMD processors. The sensors of ATI and Nvidia video cards as well as SMART hard drive temperature can be displayed. The Open Hardware Monitor runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows and any x86 based Linux operating systems without installation.

The official website provides download (v0.137 beta) and more screenshots.

The source code can be checked out anonymously from the Subversion repository at the Google Code homepage.

svn checkout http://open-hardware-monitor.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ open-hardware-monitor-read-only

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openSUSE 11.3 final released

Jul 17

Posted by shawn in Site | No Comments

The openSUSE Project developers have announced the final version of openSUSE 11.3, their popular Linux distribution. This 11.3 release include a number of changes, package updates and new interesting features.

The changes include support of Btrfs file system, various KDE, GNOME and LXDE desktop updates and changes.

via h-online

More details about the release can be found in the release notes, change log, and on the Product Highlights page. A start-up guide and screenshot tour are also provided. openSUSE 11.3 is available to download for 32 and 64-bit x86 systems as a DVD or LiveCD image. Alternatively, users can purchase a boxed copy of openSUSE 11.3. openSUSE is released under the GPL Licence. The next major release of openSUSE, version 11.4, is scheduled to arrive in March of 2011.

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Open@Adobe: Adobe Open Source on SourceForge

Jul 17

Posted by shawn in Linux, WebApp, Windows | No Comments

SourceForge is a web-based source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development.

With Open@Adobe, Adobe is the first manufacturer to expand its own open-source program through the SourceForge 2.0 beta portal. Through the new repository Adobe provides improved public access to its open source projects not only to its own software, such as the Flex Framework, but also to various specifications and standards.

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Wine 1.2 is now avaliable

Jul 17

Posted by shawn in Linux | No Comments

After two years of development efforts, the Wine Team release the final stable version 1.2 today.
The main highlights are the support for 64-bit applications, and nice user interface.

via Wine Announcement with all update changes

The source is available from the following locations:

http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.2.tar.bz2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.2.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

http://www.winehq.org/download

You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/git for details.

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iPhone 4 Coming To 17 New Countries And More

Jul 17

Posted by shawn in iPhone | No Comments

Apple has also announced that it will be launching iPhone 4 in 17 new countries on July 30th such as Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland:

On July 30th, we are going to bring the iPhone to 17 more countries, and these are the same 17 we talked about before with the omission of just South Korea because it’s going to take just a little bit longer to get government approval there.

Time spent on site: Google beat Yahoo !

Jul 14

Posted by shawn in WebApp | No Comments

Time spent on Google sites (38.9 billion minutes) was greater than Yahoo (38.8 billion minutes) for the first time.

Form the chart below, maybe the value of google (Fast is better than slow.) should be changed, right? lol, It seems that all the movement Google had made is keeping users do everything around Google, instead of leaving it.

Via BusinessInsider

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OnyX: Mac OS System Diagnostic Tool

Jul 14

Posted by shawn in Mac OS | No Comments


After a long time using Mac, it will also have different kinds of issues as same as Windows, like useless log and journal file waste disk space, disordered font cache lead to unreadable interface, incorrect files permission disallow you open them, and so on. At this time, users need to use system diagnostic and maintenance tool to fix all these issues. Here is one, OnyX, which is a multifunction utility for Mac OS X which allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and of some of Apple’s own applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and more.

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