Category Archives: Tutorials & Tips

Upgrading Samsung Galaxy S from Telcel to Darky’s Rom v10.1 with Android Gingerbread

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Gabriel Saldaña

This upgrade took my whole Saturday so this post might save you a lot of time searching through forums to get the Darky ROM 10.1 on the Samsung Galaxy S. My phone came originally with a ripped off version of … Continue reading →

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Change your default browser to Chromium in Debian and Emacs

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Gabriel Saldaña

The web browser is nowadays the most important and frequently used tool in a computer. Recently I’ve been using more the Chromium browser than Firefox, on in Debian’s case, Iceweasel. This is for several reasons: Better memory management (doesn’t eat … Continue reading →

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Post to WordPress blogs with Emacs & Org-mode

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Gabriel Saldaña

Recently I’ve discovered Org2blog, an Emacs mode to write your blog posts locally using org-mode post them to your WordPress blog in a very fast and easy way. I’ve written before on how to write your blog posts and publish … Continue reading →

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Restore Samsung Galaxy S to Original ROM from Telcel Mexico

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Gabriel Saldaña

Two weeks ago, I messed up my Galaxy S phone. I was having trouble with the back key activating by itself without touching it. As I’ve said before, I use Darky’s ROM instead of the crappy Samsung/Telcel default one. So … Continue reading →

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Search and replace recursively in multiple files

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Gabriel Saldaña

Lately I’ve been working with a lot of static HTML files with lots of repeating text structures. In the past I’ve talked about editing multiple files with Emacs. This approach works very well when the number of multiple files and … Continue reading →

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How to install latest Git on Ubuntu

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Gabriel Saldaña

Git is a distributed version control system. I won’t go into much details of what Git is or why use Git instead of other VC systems. There’s plenty other sites where to check that information. I love Git, but there’s … Continue reading →

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