Author Archives: spsneo

Updated IITG Webmail Extension

Posted on February 28, 2010 by spsneo

Note: This post is for currently enrolled IITG students I wrote about a chrome extension in my yesterday’s post. 1st and 2nd year students of IITG have different mail servers than Disang. They won’t be able to use the extension. … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome Extension for IITG Webmail

Posted on February 27, 2010 by spsneo

NOTE: This post is for IITG students. IITG webmail accounts are hosted on different servers for students, staff and faculty. So every time I open the page – http://webmail.iitg.ernet.in, I have to change the server to Disang. I wrote a … Continue reading →

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Post Pidgin and Twitter status from command line

Posted on January 20, 2010 by spsneo

I often want to post the same status message in Pidgin and Twitter. I wrote  simple bash script to accomplish this. One can download the script from here: http://www.spsneo.com/scripts/poststatus.tar.gz How to use it – 1) Change the permission of the … Continue reading →

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Bash History Tips and Tricks

Posted on September 19, 2009 by spsneo

Bash supports history expansion feature which can be very useful for powerful command-line users. According to bash manual page – History  expansions introduce words from the history list into the input stream, making it easy to repeat commands, insert the … Continue reading →

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Set BING Background as your Desktop Wallpaper in GNOME

Posted on July 18, 2009 by spsneo

BING comes up with a beautiful background everyday. I thought why not set this background as my desktop wallpaper. But it would be a cumbersome task to set it manually. So I searched (Googled, BINGed) for some script which will … Continue reading →

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