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Step 1. Install the VNC server.

Windows users: TightVNC is free Windows VNC server and client software. TightVNC is a nice choice because it also allows for file transfers and high compression levels for slow connections. Download TightVNC from here and run the installation on your home computer. Start the server, and set a password for incoming connections.

TightVNC can be set to run as a Windows service, which means your Windows usernames and passwords can be used to authenticate on the VNC server connection. Be sure all your Windows passwords are set and strong, and that any passwordless guest accounts are disabled.

Mac users: OSXvnc is a free Mac VNC server. Download, install, set up a password and start the server.

If your VNC server is connected directly to the Internet, it is now listening for Internet requests on port 5900, VNC’s default port (which is also configurable). Visit WhatIsMyIP from your home computer to determine its IP address and write it down.

Step 2. Install the VNC client.

On the remote Windows computer, also download and install TightVNC, but this time, start the viewer, NOT the server. If you’re on a Mac, download the free Chicken of the VNC Mac viewer to connect to your home PC. Enter your home computer’s IP address and password to connect.

Here’s a screengrab of a VNC connection to my Windows PC from my Mac. Click on the image to see a larger version.

And that’s that! You’re virtually sitting at your home desktop from anywhere in the world.

A few extra VNC tips to chew on:

• For slower network connections, set the compression to “best.” The window image quality will be lower, but the connection response will be snappier.
• Bring a VNC viewer with you on a USB memory stick so you don’t have to download and install on every computer you want to use to connect to your server.
• Avoid having to install a server on Mom’s computer; email her the 166K self-extracting SingleClick UltraVNC server for your next tech support phone session. More on SingleClick in an upcoming Lifehacker feature.

FOOTNOTES:
[1] LogMeIn is a web-based application that also provides this remote desktop control and may be a better option for some folks. I prefer VNC because it’s more of a challenge and doesn’t require third party intervention.

[2] If your home computer is behind a home network router with a firewall, remote computers will not be able to connect. You must open up a port on your router’s firewall and forward requests to it to your computer.

[3] Alternately, you can enter your home computer’s domain name. For setting Up a Hostname For your computer You can use the free service of DynDNS.

Credits:[LifeHacker]

Atlast firefox for mobile has released. Moving right along from the release candidate, Firefox Mobile has arrived in 1.0 form on phones like the N900 that run Maemo. It’s got add-ons, an AwesomeBar, desktop syncing through Weave, and plenty more to recommend it. We just wish it could work on more devices.

Image from jkOnTheRun.

Firefox Mobile’s features are listed and explained at a helpful Mozilla page, but to see what Firefox Mobile looks like in action, check out mobile-obsessed blog jkOnTheRun’s screenshot tour. You can also see the thinking, and a few action shots, of Firefox Mobile in Mozilla’s own video, ported by the folks at the Android and Me blog to YouTube:

Via [LifeHacker] Via Firefox for Mobile Now Available on Nokia’s Maemo Platform! [The Mozilla Blog]

Previously I had posted an article on how to install latest firefox, but it was not even a standard install procedure, and so do it have lots of issues. Now today i found one way to install Latest version of firefox using “apt-get” command, which is indeed a standard installation procedure in Ubuntu.

So here it Goes:

If you are using Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) or later:

The repository to add, if you’re adding it manually to your sources.list, is

deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main

and you can use the following command to add it to your sources.list in one step:

echo -e “\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

If you are using Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) or earlier (due to a bug in apt):

The repository to add, if you’re adding it manually to your sources.list, is

deb http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main

and you can use the following command to add it to your sources.list in one step:

echo -e “\ndeb http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

Then add the package signing key to your keyring,

by running the following command:

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29

Update your package database:

sudo apt-get update

Install your desired package, with one of the following commands:

sudo apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build

Now goes another reason for using these steps, You can install both thunderbird and seamonkey aprt from firefox.

To install them issue the following commands.

sudo apt-get install thunderbird-mozilla-build

sudo apt-get install seamonkey-mozilla-build

The guys who uses Linux most likely to experiment with their systems. So if by any chance the sources.list file got corrupted we cannot update our linux anymore. For resolving this we will be needing a new and clean sources.list file. But if we chose to take the sources.list fie from any of the online community, there may be chance of slowing down the update process. This is because the sources.list file you may be getting is from another part of the earth and the updates are being downloaded from the location near to them, and very far from you.

Here I found one link which will generate the sources.list file according to your needs and it includes the selection of the country, which will help you getting faster upgrades.

See the Site Here.

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Now follow the instruction on the site I have Given.

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Supported Sources:

• Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted–protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
• Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Outputs:

• File format: MP4 and MKV
• Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora
• Audio: AAC, CoreAudio AAC (OS X Only), MP3, or Vorbis. AC-3 pass-through, DTS pass-thorugh (MKV only)

Misc features:

• Chapter selection
• Subtitles
• Integrated bitrate calculator
• Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
• Live Video Preivew

Mac OS
	Mac OS X 10.5 / 10.6 – GUI Download (32bit Intel) Download (64bit Intel) Download (Power PC)	Mac OS X 10.5 / 10.6 – CLI Download (32bit Intel) Download (64bit Intel) Download (Power PC)
	Intel based Macs: If you have an Intel Core 2 Duo / Core i5 or i7, you can download the “64bit Intel” release. If you have the older “Core Duo” or “Core Solo” processors, you should download the “32bit Intel” release.
Windows
	Windows XP/Vista/7 – GUI Download	Windows XP/Vista/7 – CLI Download
Linux
	Ubuntu 9.10 deb – GUI Download (32bit) Download (64bit)	Ubuntu 9.10 deb – CLI Download (32bit) Download (64bit)
	Fedora 12 rpm – GUI Download (32bit) Download (64bit)	Fedora 12 rpm – CLI Download (32bit) Download (64bit)
Other
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Google Chrome developer’s build for Mac egts an update with a number of stability fixes along with an update which includes a trackpad gesture that allows users to open the previous and next pages in a new tab using the CMD-three finger swipe.

Hold the CMD key and swipe with three fingers left or right, and you’ll open a new tab with the page found going back or forward. There’s also crude bookmark and cookie managers in this release.

The Windows and Linux versions of Chrome dev also updated to version 4.0.295.0, although with different changes.

via – LifeHacker