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Fixing a mistake in auto-opening settings in Chrome

February 1, 2011November 2, 2014 Peter JaricUncategorized

When I was going to open a Spotify link in Google Chrome and the browser asked me if I wanted to open it or not, I checked the “Remember my decision” check box and then clicked “Do not open”, by […]

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Edit settings for screensavers in gnome-screensaver

December 17, 2010November 2, 2014 Peter JaricUncategorized

In newer versions of Ubuntu (and Linuxes) xscreensaver has been replaced with gnome-screensaver. The same screensavers are supported (with some exceptions, I guess), but there is one thing that is lacking: per-screensaver configuration. The author of gnome-screensaver thinks that this […]

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Customize Saved Searches in Thunderbird

December 14, 2010September 24, 2019 Peter JaricConfiguration

I use Mozilla Thunderbird exclusively as my email client. One feature Thunderbird offers is Saved Searchs. I use it to create a virtual folder “Unread Mail” that shows all my unread mail that is not junk. To do this I […]

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Playing Swedish Scrabble? Boggle?

September 15, 2010November 2, 2014 Peter JaricUncategorized

If you’re playing Scrabble in Swedish with your friends, you will get invaluable help from my friend Jonatan‘s new web application: ordlista.org. There you can check whether a word is valid when playing Scrabble, or just browse through words for […]

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“Connection problem or invalid MMI code” on Android phone

April 19, 2010November 2, 2014 Peter JaricUncategorized

We have got a new cell phone operator at work and one of their features is that if you prefix a number with the code *150# the call will be charged to a separate bill that will be sent to […]

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Aardvark and answers that do not answer the question

February 23, 2010November 2, 2014 Peter JaricInternet, Thoughts

Recently Google announced that they have acquired Aardvark, a service that finds the right person to answer any question you might have. I’ve used it frequently for a little while, and while I think it is a very cool idea […]

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Matching combined results in jQuery – ordered correctly

November 24, 2009November 2, 2014 Peter JaricProgramming

Today I used the “selector1, selector2, selectorN” selector in jQuery and was confused that, in some cases, when looping over the results I got them in the order of the selectors and not in the order of the elements in […]

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New InfoGlue Forum

November 11, 2009November 2, 2014 Peter JaricInternet

I have been working with the CMS InfoGlue for a while now and one thing that has been seriously lacking is a large community. To help beginning to build the foundation of a community, I have been pushing for a […]

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EnBil.nu

November 10, 2009November 2, 2014 Peter JaricInternet

My friend Jonatan and his friend Robert released their new site EnBil.nu yesterday! It aggregates most of Sweden’s car rental sites into one easy-to-use site. With their own words (in Swedish): Vår förhoppning är att EnBil.nu ska vara den bästa […]

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Setting up CrunchBang Linux on an Acer Aspire One with SSD

May 4, 2009 Peter JaricLinux

I have had an Acer Aspire One netbook (AA1) for a while and recently I decided to throw out the bundled Linpus OS and install a more flexible Linux. Linpus has served me quite well, but it has some shortcomings […]

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