latex-beamer + emacs-org-mode

The what? 

"You set the learning curve depending on your needs" -- Bastien Guerry, org-mode maintainer since 2011

     In this post, I am going to describe how to use org-mode in the awesome emacs to write reports/papers and create presentations as swiftly as writing plain text. Naaah, you will be writing plain text only! Rest of the shebang -- generating the tex file, producing the pdf, and even opening it for preview! --  is taken care by a shortcut in Emacs: C-c C-e d. Peace in life. Especially useful when you start writing the report at 2345 and the submission deadline is 2359 :D.
    We will be using the following tools/technologies: Beamer (it's just a Latex class), and Emacs* (org-mode in specific). I have written this post in haste so a few things may have slipped my mind. Put off in comments if you have any problems and/or tips.

Flash and other things Firefox

Firefox Firefox

Good ol' Firefox!

Flashing its awesomeness

Open Source, out of the box!

Tons of add-ons; take your pick

Slisha slow? Don't be a prick

Of features, there is no dearth

Caring for users since it's birth

This post is mainly about installing Flash for Firefox on a Linux-based machine (especially when you don't have admin privileges) and a few other things personal to my Firefox experience. Usually, in these kind of posts, we first have to write how to go about installing the concerned software. But there is no such thing as "installing" Firefox anyway -- Download. Extract. Browse! :P :D

I am sure there are several posts out there which explain the same. The heck with them!

Using emacs-jabber

A couple of days back, my friend Pradeep told me how to set up gtalk inside emacs using emacs-jabber. I am going to just repeat all those instructions as well as tell some of the things that I discovered.
Note: I don't know whether the following works for windows.