Archive for December 2007

Shout out for beginning bloggers

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Help Gmail to improve SPAM filtering

I found out there is a new feature in Google’s Gmail service, you can now report the SPAM emails to the Gmail anti-SPAM team.
Here’s the screenshot of it:

This means that Google is to improve their already good anti SPAM filtering. Thats good news for all of us! Let’s celebrate New Year with less viagra and [...]

GoDaddy promo codes

I am posting this as a personal memo, so that I don’t have to google it everytime. Please enjoy variety of discount codes. I would appreciate if you could drop a line with the outcome of your coupon, did it work?

OYH3 – $3 off / $6.95 any .COM (renewals too… just used it)
YH1 – 10% [...]

Pointless and boring presentations

Art Lebedev is a leading design studio based in Russia with many other office worldwide. Artemy Lebedev, he is the founder and the head of the studio write a lot good articles on various topics.
One of the latest article he wrote is about pointless presentations. Note that the article is in Russian, however they will [...]

Year 2007 for Linux and Open Source

Let’s sum up and see what were the biggest Linux moves in the year 2007.

GPLv3
Asus Eee PC
OpenMoko
Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10 = lots of fork distros
GNOME 2.20
Pidgin 2.0
KDE 4.0(postponed to Jan 2008)
Xfce 4.4
Google Desktop
Fedora 7, Fedora 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Mplayer 1.0 RC2
Adobe Flash Player 9
OpenOffice.org 2.3
Linux is preinstalled in Dell, Lenovo and HP PCs
Wallmart [...]