February 6th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Windows 7
Every operating system will tell you that your computer will run best, and will be safest, if you keep it up-to-date. This is a no brainer, really, and so there are dozens of good reasons to have your system’s automatic update checker turned on, and to have those updates installed automatically as well. On the [...]
February 5th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
A lot of us really enjoy wasting spending time watching videos on YouTube. To be honest, it’s a bit too easy to get distracted and not notice the time until hours have passed, but that’s another story. Of course, the “problem” with YouTube is that sometimes you just want to watch a video while you’re [...]
February 4th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
If you’ve just started using Windows Live Writer as your blogging client of choice, you may notice that it has some interesting presets for how to handle images you want posted in your blog. For instance, let’s say your blog has a a template so that images should be 580 pixels wide. That’s how they [...]
February 3rd, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
It’s a good idea to keep the software on your computer up-to-date. Not just the system software, but all the individual programs you’ve installed over the years. This is true for a few reasons. First, as software is “in the wild,” so to speak, bugs and other problems are found and – hopefully – corrected [...]
February 2nd, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
You can do a lot with extensions to modify how Firefox looks and behaves. Of course, with every extension you install, more memory is being used. Sometimes an extension can be poorly written so that it eats memory beyond what it’s intended to, while other times having so many extensions can simply bog down your [...]
February 1st, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: Linux Tips, Windows 7
There are a fair handful of Usenet NZB downloaders available for Linux. You can choose from LottaNZB, Klibido, Kwooty, Binreader (also available for Mac and Windows), plus a very basic client called NZB. But if you happen to run Windows or Mac OS X as well as Linux, then you might be looking for a [...]
January 31st, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: Linux Tips
When GNOME 3 was released, its GNOME Shell desktop was a great departure from GNOME 2, which had been the standard for quite a few years. Gone was the bottom panel, the Applications menu, and in their place a new paradigm. We now have GNOME Shell, with a new way of interacting with our programs [...]
January 30th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: Linux Tips
In a recent article, we discussed a number of different GNOME Shell extensions that made life better for the user by adding new features to GNOME Shell (or tweaking existing features to make them more useful). In this article, we’ll highlight a handful of GNOME Shell extensions that don’t add features; in some cases, the [...]
January 29th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
In Linux, Transmission is one of the most popular Bittorrent clients available. It has a nice, minimal interface and doesn’t tend to use a lot of system resources when in use, even with heavy downloading. For users making a switch to Linux, it may come as a surprise that one of the standard Bittorrent clients [...]
January 28th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: Linux Tips
The newest version of Ubuntu (11.10 – Oneiric Ocelot), does not come with GNOME Shell installed by default. Instead, Ubuntu ships with the Unity 3D interface (or 2D, if your graphics card isn’t up to snuff). You can install GNOME Shell easily enough, however. Simply open a Terminal and type sudo apt-get install gnome-shell and [...]
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