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Migrating from GMail to Google Apps

Enhance!

Microsoft Kills Kin

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Just six weeks after launch, Microsoft's Kin, the social phone we wanted to love, is dead. Microsoft is ending its short life, sources close to Microsoft tell us.

There won't be a separate Kin product anymore. Effective immediately, Andy Lees is shoving the entire Kin team into the core Windows Phone 7 team, so there will just be one big group to focus on Windows Phone 7.

Absolutely Amazing Picture: Obese, gluttonous, and cannibalistic Galaxy.

Set Gmail / Google Apps email as system wide default in Ubuntu

Gmail Backup

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Works with Google Apps email accounts as well.
Simple but functional.

FSlint "Select using wildcard" feature

To specify a whole path you would enter:

/Backup/Pictures/Trips/*

to select all files with ous in the name, use *ous*

to select all files with four letter names, use ????

Excellent tool for searching domain names

Nice catchphrase too.

Give your domain search a happy ending.
There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond. Whether you want a short URL or something big, Domainr helps you explore them all. Some of our favorites are ste.ph, streetstyl.es and iamthewalr.us.

http://domai.nr/

Restoring Nautilus as the default "Open Containing Folder" in Firefox

Using the terminal:

gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

Search for: x-directory/gnome-default-handler=

and make sure the whole line reads

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop

instead of:

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=Thunar-folder-handler.desktop
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=pcmanfm-folder-handler.desktop;
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=kde4-dolphin.desktop

Incremental Backup with rdiff-backup

rdiff-backup tries to “combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup”. It’s a command line utility that not only gives you a plain mirror of your files, but also allows you to retrieve previous versions of your files using the extra difference data it keeps. This means you can quickly copy and paste to restore a file from your most recent backup, or retrieve the contents of files as they were at the time of any previous backup. rdiff-backup has built in support for network backups over SSH and is network-efficient and fast thanks to its incremental nature. It’s also possible to run rdiff-backup on Windows, soon I’ll be investigating whether it will work as a backup solution for the Windows systems on my network.

Tom has a nice rdiff-backup tutorial. Is there a GUI for all this somewhere?