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Is Your Website Eco Friendly?

Many times when an environmental subject is raised, we often direct our focus on carbon emissions and the way we use energy directly. But from my opinion, I think it is more complicated than that. From my professional perspective, being a pretty experienced software developer for some years. I came to realize that even our…

How To Change Default Search Language in Google Chrome

Most browsers use the so called Locale to determine the default language to use for search results and related content. So say I in Finland and using Google chrome i want to search something, the browser locale is fi for Finland, so the results will default to Finnish Language.

This helps in some way, but searching from Finland does not necessarily means i speak or read Finnish, that is when you need to change the default search language so that it displays the results in your chosen language.

BuddyPress Email Notification Problem

Here is how I SOLVED BuddyPress email sending problems, using a very simple plugin, If you are having a problem with your Wordpress email notification sending, after installing BuddyPress, then read this post for one alternative I used to solve such a problem.

Turn Nokia N900 Into A PS3 Controller

BlueMaemo is a remote controller program for the Maemo-powered devices. With BlueMaemo you can turn your Maemo-powered device in a mixed Bluetooth keyboard-and-mouse device through the HID Bluetooth profile. When i came across this cool application, and it was just few days after I got my brand new N900, i was eager to give it…

IntelliJ IDEA on Ubuntu

Installing Intellij IDEA on Ubuntu 9.10 I’ve been a user of the excellent IntelliJ Java IDE for some time  on Windows. Even though the official Linux support by JetBrains is only for RedHat, you can also install IntelliJ fairly easily on Ubuntu. I’ve tested this with ubuntu 9.10 , Java 6, and IntelliJ 8. Here’s…