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If .CHM files cannot be displayed properly under Windows XP, remember to unblock them: 1. right-click on .CHM file 2. select ‘Properties’ 3. click ‘Unblock’ button The ‘Unblock’ buttom appears only on .CHM files downloaded from Internet: ‘This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer.’

Since i am not sure if the suggestion will work or not, i searched for an alternative option, this was when i found “chm encoder” a freeware utility which accepts a chm file and converts it into html files. If the “generate menu” is selected then the software generated nice menus for easy navigation. I tried it and it works fine, a cool freeware program.

Update: There exists xChm - a software which I currently use in fedora to view chm files, i found that a version for windows also exists.

I am liking having a common look and feel to many of my applications. Please note the instructions given on that page on how to install the icons. Have a nice time & tango.

Linux.com has also done a review of Gnome 2.14 wherein they say: “The GNOME 2.14 release continues this tradition. Although few major innovations are visible to the user, the release includes another round of improvements in usability and the continued development of the desktop administration tools, as well as numerous small improvements in productivity software.”

Overall, i am dying to lay my hands on this release, i am currenly running 2.10 that comes with Fedora Core 4, also in a few hours is the release of Fedora Core 5, which includes gnome 2.14. So it seems I will have to wait till the next ILUG-Mangalore meeting to lay my hands on FC5 + gnome 2.14, wherein hopefully someone will be able to download and bring a copy of it. I will write my own review this time when i get hold of it.

Cecil replies:
You’re going to give yourself such a smack when you hear this one. Stripped of the high-tech accoutrements (by 1980s standards, anyway), it’s the oldest trick in the book. You think you’re using the gun to shoot at the TV, right? But really the TV is shooting the gun….
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Hey! I took the test which is just to look at the image and tell which number is there on the image, i saw the right number, hence i am not color blind. Time to celebrate right!!!

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Me: “It is good to notice that google is opening up, and it is also nice to know that now one can chat with almost all the im service users using a single client such as GAIM, which i use sometimes.

Though Firefox doesn’t provide native support for viewing or writing MHTML files, the Mozilla Archive Format (MAF) Firefox extension can help you. Once installed in Firefox, this extension lets you save Web pages in the open-source .MAFF format. It can also read and write .MHT files, which IE users can open.

However, the MAF Firefox extension requires Firefox 1.5+. If you are on a previous version, you can either install the View in IE or IE Tab extension.

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eGranary Project is a what schools in India need, this will work beautifully as a digital library and this can be used without much changes to schools existing computer infrastructure and will allow students to garner information other than they find in their textbooks.