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Magnify part of your Ubuntu desktop.

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Create a list of definitions in xHTML with the dl, dt and dd tags.

Apply PHP code in your theme in XOOPS.

A number of multimedia file formats are patented and cannot be distributed with Ubuntu. However, these formats are easily installed after installing Ubuntu on your computer. Read how to install multimedia file formats in Ubuntu.

Tiny screens, slow internet connections: using a mobile web browser for normal websites is often difficult. Google offers a solution.

Convert foreign currencies with Google.

If you are the author of an original work, it is likely that you own the copyright of this work. If you publish this work on the internet, others may infringe your copyright and illegally publish your work on other websites. Google Alerts can be of great help in tracking plagiarism or copyright infringements. Read how to use Google Alerts to track plagiarism.

The best strategy for using a webcam in Ubuntu is finding out if a webcam works with Linux before you buy it, even though many webcams will just work when you simply plug them in your machine. In case you did already buy a webcam, read how to get it working in Ubuntu.

If you don't like your default media player in Ubuntu, make Ubuntu choose another media player like VLC media player, MPlayer or XMMS when you open a file.

Update and upgrade Ubuntu and its packages from Ubuntu's command line Terminal.

Before you install a new version of Google Earth, you need to uninstall the previous one.

Translate a XOOPS module to another language, make all its default text available in another language.

If Firefox 3 closes down each time you visit certain sites, it may be because you have two flash movie players installed in Ubuntu. Uninstall one flash player to stop Firefox 3 from closing down.

If you do not have the permission to do something in Nautilus, you can restart Nautilus with root privileges in order to get those permissions.

Mozilla Firefox is a cross-platform browser, providing support for various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This howto describes how speed up Firefox by enabling HTTP pipelining which can dramatically improve Firefox's networking performance on all three operating systems as it allows HTTP requests to be issued simultaneously instead of sequentially,

Does it help anybody? No, only people with a broadband connection. Does this speed come at a price? Yes, some websites have problems with it, that is why HTTP pipelining is not enabled by default. However, in most other cases it is a great way to speed up your internet speed.

In addition to HTTP pipelining, Firefox can be speeded up by lowering the delay between receiving data from a website and displaying it.

Detect the user-agent with JavaScript and show the visitor of your site what browser and operating system he or she uses.

Detect the user-agent and show this to the visitor of your site with PHP. In other words: show the visitor what browser and operating system he or she uses.

If several people share a computer, you may wish to assign a maximum disk space usage. This howto only works if you have administrator privileges.

When you use the date modified to sort files, the most recent files are probably the ones that you opened most recently. Read how to save files so that you can sort your documents with the date they were created. This is really necessary if you have a large number of documents, or if you have the good habit to save various versions of a document you are working on.

The users of your website prefer URLs like www.example.com/beach-resorts.html to URLs like www.example.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1. Rewriting a URL in a way that it becomes descriptive will probably improve your ranking in search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN. This howto describes how to rewrite URLs for SmartSection 2.13, a content management module for XOOPS, XOOPS Cube and ImpressCMS.

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Return to a previous configuration by restoring to a backup of xorg.conf .

Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” is the first commercial Linux distribution to support Sun’s OpenJDK. Unfortunately, the performance of Sun's OpenJDK is not as good as Sun Java JRE. These explains how to replace it.

Are you concerned about your privacy? Or does anything embarrassing pop up when you Google your name? Read how to remove yourself from Google.

The print button and the pdf button in the XOOPS module Smartsection allow the visitor to print your articles to pdf or to paper. However, these buttons are also a source of "double content" which may affact your search engine ranking in a negative way. Read how to remove those buttons...

SmartSection is a great module for content management that can be used in XOOPS, XOOPS Cube or ImpressCMS. Unfortunately, it shows the module name "SmartSection" in your page title. This has negative impact on the ranking of your site in search engine ranking for relevant keywords. Read how to get rid of the module name in the title tag.

WF Downloads is a module for XOOPS, XOOPS Cube and ImpressCMS used to set up a downloads section on websites. Unfortunately, its templates generate a hidden text link. Hidden text links are links that are invisible or hardly visible for human beings but visible for search engines. These can get a site removed from Google's index (source). Even if your site is not removed from Google's index, hidden text links may give search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN a wrong idea of the content of your site, leading to less relevant traffic. Finally, hidden text link may lower your pagerank. Read how to remove the hidden text link from WF Downloads 3.2.

SmartSection is one of the best articles management modules for XOOPS, XOOPS Cube and ImpressCMS. It can be used for a weblog, a news section or for static content. It has some great SEO features. Unfortunately, its templates generate a hidden text link. Hidden text links are links that are invisible for human beings but visible for search engines. These can get a site removed from Google's index (source). Even if your site is not removed from Google's index, hidden text links may give search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN a wrong idea of the content of your site, leading to less relevant traffic. Finally, hidden text link may lower your pagerank. Read how to remove the hidden text link from SmartSection 2.13.

SmartPartner is an advanced Partners Management System for XOOPS, XOOPS Cube and ImpressCMS. It enables you to create a listing of partner websites. It is a great module, but unfortunately, its templates generate a hidden text link. Hidden text links are links that are invisible for human beings but visible for search engines. These can get a site removed from Google's index (source). Even if your site is not removed from Google's index, hidden text links may give search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN a wrong idea of the content of your site, leading to less relevant traffic. Finally, hidden text link may lower your pagerank. The good news is that these hidden links can easily be removed! Read how to remove the hidden text link from SmartPartner 1.02.