If you are having problems in importing your emails from Outlook to Thunderbird (Free Alternative to Outlook), then here is a good solution, which may let you do that easily.

Import Emails From Outlook To Thunderbird

If you are using Outlook for a longer time period, and now you are trying to shift to Thunderbird, but unable to import the emails to Thunderbird easily, through its wizard, because of large size or any other issue, then let me tell you a good, simple and easy solution.
All you need is (the old) Outlook Express, which is usually installed by default in the Windows XP. Follow the steps below to get the solution:

• As direct Import from Outlook to Thunderbird is not successful in some cases, first you need to import your Outlook emails to the old Outlook Express
• Now open Thunderbird, and try to import your emails from Outlook Express to Thunderbird, by going on Tools -> Import and selecting Outlook Express, instead of Outlook

After waiting a few minutes or seconds, you will get your emails imported to the Thunderbird.

Hope the solution works for you to successfully import your emails from Outlook to Thunderbird.

While logging into Empathy, there faced a problem while the account signing in. Here is a simple and easy solution:

Empathy – Name In Use Solution

All you have to do, what was done by me here, is to remove the account or accounts which are having problem while signing in. For example, if your MSN account is getting problem while singing in, and showing yout  the Name In Use error, then simple remove the account by following the small procedure below:

1. Open Empathy window
2. Goto: Edit -> Accounts
3. Choose your account from the left panel by selecting it from the left click
4. And click on the Remove button below

One you have remove your account, now just add the account again by clicking on the Add button on the same window, and following the procedure there for adding your account.

And your problem would have been resolved now.

If still facing any problem, then try to do the same procedure again, and restart Empathy before adding the account again to see if any change happens.

If you are facing following type of error in your sphinx:

FATAL: out of memory (unable to allocate 1073741824 bytes)

then following may be a simple and easy solution for you.

Sphinx FATAL out of memory Error

For an easy solution, just give it a hit and try, and this may be a working solution for you.

Open up your sphinx configuration file, usually named as sphinx.conf, and search for the indexer, which could look like:

indexer
{
mem_limit = 1024M
…
…
}

All you have to do is to chnage the mem_limit value, and reduce it to 128M or 512M, like:

mem_limit = 128M
or
mem_limit = 512M

Even if the value is not 1024M in your current sphinx configuration, all you have to do is to reduce the value and make it to a lesser memory.

Now restart or reboot your sphinx server completely, and check out if the solution works for you.

Also give your comments out, to let me know if it works.

If you are a Thunderbird user, and you are having image display problems in Thunderbird, then the following post may be helpful:

Thunderbird Image Display Problem

To let your images displayed in your Thunderbird, making the connection / proxy settings may be one of the solutions for you. To make this experiment, all you need to do is, check your connection and proxy settings in the Thunderbird, and make some changes to it, to see if the images start working with you.

To change the proxy, following the steps below:

• Open Thunderbird
• Goto Tools -> Settings
• Choose Advanced icon on top
• Select Network & Disk Space tab
• In Connection frame, click on Settings button

Now you may be able to see different proxy options. You can try all of them, in my case, I chose Use system proxy settings to make my Thunderbird work fine with embedded images loading in it.

Hope this will help you displaying your email images in Thunderbird.

Recently read a blog post regarding Facebook, now sharing phone numebers and addresses with Third party applications.

Have a look at the following post of ReadWriteWeb, to have some info related to this issue in details at:

Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps

Send in your comments, to give this post a porper direction.

Looking for Firfox Adblock Plus, an ad blocker, which will let you block unwanted ads and unwanted images from the websites permanently?

Adblock Plus – Ad Blocker

Through Adblock Plus, you can easily block and remove ads and images from the websites permanently. All you have to do is simply install the Adblock Plus plugin from the Mozilla Firefox plugins website and searching for Adblock Plus there.

How To Block Ads From Adblock Plus

After successfully installing Firfox Adblock Plus, you can now easily remove unwanted ads and images by right clicking on them and choosing the option “Adblock Plus: Block Image“, and giving the exact image path, or the relevant images path from the same or relevant sort of url (you can choose multiple options to recognize that).

Hope this will help you removing unwanted images and unwanted ads from the websites permanently through Adblock Plus.

Looking for how to download and install Skype for Ubuntu or Linux Skype?

Skype Ubuntu, Skype Linux

Well, you would be glad to know that Skype has officially released its Ubuntu / Linux version.

Download Skype Ubuntu, Download Skype Linux

All you have to do is download the Skype debian version for Ubuntu, or any other Linux version there, at its official website:
http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/

and click on the Download button there, and choose the linux version from there (for Ubuntu, its Debian or Ubuntu version there).

Or if the above given url does’nt work for you, then simply goto the Skype official website, and goto the download link over there to get the Linux / Ubuntu Version of Skype at:
http://www.skype.com/

Install Skype Ubuntu, Install Skype Linux

After downloading the Skype debian version for Ubuntu, just run it there, and you’re done.
You can have your installed Skype’s version of your Ubuntu / Linux there in the Applications -> Internet section.

Hope this will help you download and install your Skype for Ubuntu / Linux.

For the people around, who are waiting for Google Chrome OS, there is an exciting news that, Google Chrome Team has sent out invites to a press event in San Francisco, saying:

“.. we plan to share some exciting news about Chrome ..”

Hopefully Chrome OS, Google’s first Operating System for Laptops, PCs etc., is expected to unveil 7th December, 2010.

Do you think Google Chrome OS will beat Windows, Linux and other Operating Systems behind?

Share your comments with us.

Wanna have a look at which browsers are being used mostly throughout the year, globally? StatCounter Global Stats will give you a great environment for checking out the browser stats and browser usage in monthly and yearly basis, from July, 2008 onwards. Not only Browser Stats, you can also check out the Browser Version Stats, Operating System Stats, Screen Resolution Stats and more.

Browser Stats

Through Browser Stats, you can have a look at the browser usage stats like which browsers are being used mostly, or which are the Top most browsers in a year or a month. You can view the browser usage percentage stats globally, like usage of IE, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome etc.

Browser Version Stats

Through Browser Version Stats, you can have a look at the browser version usage stats like which browser versions are being used mostly in a year or a month. You can view the browser usage percentage stats like usage of Mozilla Firefox 3.6, IE 8, IE 7, IE 6, Google Chrome etc. globally.

Operating System Stats

Through Operating System Stats, you can have a look at the stats like which operating systems are being used mostly on web, in a year or a month. You can view the OS usage percentage stats like usage of Windows XP, Windows 7, Mac, Linux etc. globally.

Screen Resolution Stats

Through Screen Resolution Stats, you can have a look at the stats like which screen resolutions are being used mostly on web, in a year or a month. You can view the Screen Resolution usage percentage stats like usage of 1024 x 768, 1280 x 800, 800 x 600 etc. globally.

StatCounter Global Stats

StatCounter Global Stats can give you all type of stats as discussed above. To check out these stats, visit the StatCounter Global Stats website at:
StatCounter Global Stats

Are you looking for a Free Photoshop alternative software, where you can create, edit and save your images professionally.

Photoshop Alternative

If you are not at all interested in purchasing Adobe Photoshop, and want to have such type of environment, not exactly the same but, if you want to have a good alternative and free software where you can create and edit the images, make them animated like gif etc., and reuse the images with editing mode like text editing, layers addition etc., then The GIMP is a good solution for you.

The GIMP

GIMP aka GNU Image Manipulation Program is a free image manipulation and good photoshop alternative software available for Windows, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc.) etc.. Through GIMP, you can have tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Download & Install The GIMP

To download and install GIMP, and have more detailed information related to this freely available software, visit its official website at:
GIMP – The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Also check out the following post, where you can have a list of different Software for Ubuntu for free at:
Software For Ubuntu