8 Different links to accessing your GMail account

Google’s GMail is a free email service which has ascended the popularity charts by leaps and bounds. In fact you may seldom find a Net user who doesn’t have a GMail Id. One of the main reasons for GMail’s popularity stems from the fact that Google has gone to great lengths to provide an email service which has a lot of user friendly features. One of them being – the possibility to access your GMail account using more than one URL.
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lshw command – List hardware information in Linux

lshw is a Linux command which provides details of all the hardware in your PC. The details provided by the lshw command run the gamut of processors, memory, slots, onboard sound, video chipset and more. To get the full details of your hardware, you need to run lshw command as root (or super user). If you are using Ubuntu or any of its derivatives, you can run it using sudo as follows :
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Can you name all the countries in this world ?

There are 245 independent countries in this world. How many can you name ? If you are up to the challenge, then here are two online games which put you to test. I was able to name only 35 countries on the first try and 56 in the second. You might do better.

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Totem Destroyer 2 – A fabulous online game

Totem Destroyer is a very entertaining online game. The game play is simple. In each level of the game, you have a number of blocks stacked one on top of the other in different combinations.  Right on top of the uppermost block sits – what else ? – a Totem.  Your goal is to eliminate the desired number of blocks in each level without letting the Totem touch the ground.  The exact number of blocks to be eliminated in each level is listed in the top right corner of the game.

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Fascinating Cigarette Smoking Facts – Equally Shocking

Smoking cigarettes is perceived by many to impart sexuality to females and a machismo look to males. And in days of yore, cigarettes were wholeheartedly promoted by – believe it or not – even medical practitioners among others such as sports persons and celebrities.

But the world has long since awoken to the hazards of smoking cigarettes. Now a days, it is generally considered to be a bad habit and pernicious to ones health.

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Change screen resolution in Ubuntu Linux

Changing screen resolution in Ubuntu can be achieved in a variety of ways. This article explains a couple of them.
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Mastering Wordpress Shortcodes

What are Wordpress shortcodes?

These are small snippets of code which you can embed in your Wordpress post. And when you publish your post, Wordpress will expand them to the corresponding HTML/XHTML code.

For example, in a blog hosted by Wordpress.com, you can easily embed YouTube videos using the [youtube=URL] shortcode. Where the URL is something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgEmZ39EtFk. This will embed the corresponding YouTube video into your post. You will never have to mess with the embed tags required to insert a video into your post. In fact creating your own custom Wordpress shortcodes is childsplay if you know a bit of PHP.

SmashingMagazine.com has a wonderful writeup on steps required to create your own custom shortcodes for your Wordpress blog. The article is quite exhaustive and provides  a number of examples such as “Creating a Subscribe to RSS” shortcode, “Google Adsense” shortcode, “Embedding an RSS reader” shortcode, and so on.

What is a blog ?

I am sure anybody who has browsed the Internet has come across the term blog or blogging. In fact, if you are an avid Internet user, you might even own a blog.
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Free Zimbra Desktop – Access all your Email Offline

The free Zimbra Desktop is an email client unveiled by Yahoo a few months back. It essentially behaves like a clone of Microsoft Outlook by providing offline access to all your mail in Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail  and all other email providers. But that is not all, if you are using Yahoo mail or Gmail, Zimbra Desktop syncs with your calendar, contacts, tasks  and documents associated with your email id.
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11 Foods to eat for healthy living

The foods to eat for healthy living are those which provide the essential nutrients required by our body, at the same time cause little harm. The following are 11 foods which are considered by experts to be a great idea to regularly include in your diet regimen.
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