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In geography, the antipodes of any place on Earth is its antipodal point; that is, the region on the Earth’s surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Two points which are antipodal to one another are connected by a straight line through the centre of the Earth. Full article at Wikipedia.

To dig out a whole and come out in china you would have to be somewhere in Argentina or Chile

http://www.antipodemap.com/

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Web-Ecosystem.

Tags: Google Maps.

Google Apps POP3 server requires SSL in order to work. If your webserver was built with SSL support, you can simply do the following in the wordpress “Post via e-mail” configuration:

1. Enter ssl://pop.gmail.com as the mail server
2. Enter 995 as the port.

Done!

Posted by acuervo. Filed under WordPress.

Tags: gmail, SSL, WordPress.

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Web-Ecosystem.

Tags: Facebook.

When will Microsoft learn? They are simple light years behind google in search technology. No matter what they do they will never catch up, they are simply to far away.

They are getting ready (for the fifth time, i think) to relaunch their search engine.  After the all failed, msn.com, start.com, live.com this time it will be Kumo.com.  From the screenshot below we can see they have done everything possible to copy google’s layout. (yes, Microsoft is really good at copying, never at innovating).

Kumo, Kumo? Steve, how about buying the search.com domain? It should be a bargain for you.

No need for a crystal ball here, this is Microsoft’s next failure. What do you think?

kumo

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Microsoft, Web-Ecosystem.

Tags: Microsoft, Search Engine.

This will be an ever gowing list of blogging desktop clients

• ScribeFire
• QTM
• Flock
• Bleezer
• KBlogger
• BloGTK
• Drivel
• Gnome Blog
• JBlogEditor
• Thingamablog

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Firefox, Linux, WordPress.

Tags: blogging, Linux.

If you are just looking for a quick solution, the online service “MergePDF” will be a good solution

For a more permanent and local solution try PDFSAM.

Via phorolinux.com

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Linux, Ubuntu, Web-Ecosystem.

Tags: PDF.

Now there are no more reasons not to install 64bit Ubuntu. First is was Adobe with their native 64 bit Flash plug-in and now Sun has released a native 64 bit Java plug-in.

To install the 64 bit java plugin on Intrepid 8.10:

1. Download the bin file here
2. cd /opt
3. sudo sh jre-6u12-ea-bin-b03-linux-amd64-22_dec_2008.bin
4. cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
5. sudo ln -s /opt/jre1.6.0_12/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
6. Restart Firefox

Done!

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Firefox, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

Tags: 64-bit, Java, Ubuntu.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Adobe has released a NATIVE 64bit Flash Player, Please see this post

Now that Intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10) is out, installing the latest version of flash 10 (ver. 10.0.12.36) is easier than never before, just type the following in your terminal

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Done!

Alternatively you can simply select the package flashplugin-nonfree in synaptic.

Hardy users, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, see this post

Posted by acuervo. Filed under 64-bit, Flash, Ubuntu.

Tags: 64-bit, flash, intrepid, Ubuntu.