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Recently, I purchased a Samsung Galaxy y, unlocked, via eBay. A bit of a risky move, some would say, but hey, who doesn't like a little risk?  I did a bit of research, found a seller with a decent price -- 38mobile -- checked my bank balance, and took the dive.

The fedex pricing was very decent, although the Canadian gov't decided to put some tax on it, but that's ok.  Not the seller's fault in the least. When I ordered it, he quickly sent me full instructions on who to call to confirm the delivery, and ensure it would arrive at the destination quicker -- advice i took of course.  I had ordered the phone on a Friday, and, as promised, it arrived on Monday. Not bad consiering it's coming from Hong Kong.

Hey Readers!

Today, I'm going to discuss how to use the YoURLs shortening service, with Choqok!

Now, some of you KDE/QT using readers may use this fine piece of software already. And some of you may have, or have a friend who lets you use, a hosted URL shortener, called YoURLs. This short how-to is aimed towards the users who have the secured, non-public configuration. 

You will need:

• Choqok 1.2 or higher
• a private YoURLs install
• The Signature Token ( found on the tools page of YoURLs )

And, that's it. Once you have these ready, on to the configuration!

Step one: Fire up Choqok. Easy enough. Let's see.

Step two: From the Settings menu, select Configure Choqok..., then, click on the URL Shortening tab ( Or press ALT+S to get there )

Step three: Select Yourls from the list. On my install, it's right between bit.ly and urls.io

This is absolutely adorable. Oskar, a kitten born with no eyeballs, playing in his new home after being adopted...

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Hello, Readers!

As some of you may know, I've gotten a new computer for gaming. Decent little system, 6 gigs of ram, i3 processor, 1 tb hard drive...  I've put Windows 7 Ultimate and PCLinuxOS 64bit on it, and I've been testing some of the features of Win 7 on it.  Currently, my latest 'shiny toy' is the voice recognition/commands tool. From what I can tell, it's a lot like "Dragon Naturally Speaking" -- In theory. I'm not sure if there are any speech recognition type apps out there for Linux or not. If there are, I've not really run into any.  Anyways, seeing as I've been barely using the software, i've found it has a few... 'bugs' in it.   For example, it can't seem to type into a FCKedit box in Firefox, although it does control firefox mostly with ease... Except for when the command "Show Numbers" stops working. 

For your amusement, I'm going to dictate the above to you, and paste it below. Enjoy!