Weird Links

For future reference. Thanks, me.

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www.technobeta.com/posts/opera-ads/
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Useful when you're me and you boot into Ubuntu and your sound suddenly isn't working.

Specifically, this alsamixer section worked for me, since it turns out that the master volume control had been muted by some unknown force of nature.

This is a simple guide to tweaking .bashrc, which I will lose unless I post it here. Rock out.

Replaces the standard menu bar with a tiny menu popup, which you can then move to the Navigation toolbar.

This is good for those of us using the Gnome desktop under Linux; since it saves you some vaulable screen real estate and helps stop your browser window feeling letter-boxy at 1024x768.

(Also, yes, I have been away from updating for a couple of weeks - just moved house and have finally got a new 'net connection).

..is a search engine:

We only crawl web sites that were bookmarked or voted for by people, in sites like del.icio.us, digg and reddit.
They link to sites with the best content, and it gives you the best quality search engine on the web.

Allows you to browse sites disguised as googlebot or yahoobot. Very useful if you see the content you want in a web search result, but it's blocked when you try to visit the site.

This was written for the beta release, but the ones I tried all worked out. Article provides details on altering misc Session Saver, Tab and NewsFeed functions while giving a useful rundown on how they all work.

Edit: Ok, so LifeHacker has a better guide. Of course they fucking do.

Dumped here for near future reference; I can't imagine that I'm going to get on very well with this feature. Also tells you how to modify the tab minimum width before the tab bar becomes scrollable.

Useful little PC tips to make you moar 1337.