I was trying to install Ubuntu 6.10 in VirtualBox 4.1.22 and it would get stuck during boot at the following stage,

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"NET: Registered protocol family 2"

Enabling ‘IO APIC’ as mentioned at Cloudera VirtualBox boot error NET: Registered protocol family 2 did the trick. Thanks Deepak

Microsoft’s Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool can be used to prepare a USB drive with the Windows 8 setup. The complete guide is available here.

Microsoft’s Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool is available @ CodePlex

Lifehacker has a good article on dual booting Windows 7 and Windows 8. Check it out here

Today morning, I woke up to realize that my blackberry’s trackball didn’t register scrolls to the left. It would roll to the left but, won’t let me move to select any of the applications. After googling for some time, came upon this very useful guide @ BlackBerryInsight on cleaning the blackberry’s trackball.