February 15th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Google Chrome comes with a lot of features that make it a good choice for many users. This shouldn’t be a big suprise to most people, seeing as how it has become more and more popular over the past year, but consider that Chrome not only comes bundled with a built-in Adobe Flash plugin (which [...]
February 14th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
It’s amazing how simple flash drives make life. Have a couple songs or documents you need to move from your work computer to your home computer, or from your desktop to your laptop? Simply plug in your flash drive and transfer the files. It only takes seconds, and the flash drive is small enough to [...]
February 13th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Google Chrome and Firefox are both excellent web browsers. Firefox has for years been gaining in popularity against the long-standing “champion” Internet Explorer, and lately Chrome’s popularity has exploded. They both offer a huge variety of extensions and plugins and both have users who swear by them. Of course, many users have both web browsers [...]
February 10th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Most extensions for GNOME Shell can be installed quite simply. Head over to the GNOME Shell Extensions website, find what you want, and click the On/Off toggle switch. You’ll be asked to confirm installation, and within seconds the extension will be installed and running. It’s really that simple. Unfortunately, the GNOME Shell Weather Extension isn’t [...]
February 9th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
In a previous article, we talked about how simple it is to get Adobe Digital Editions up and running on Linux computer, either to read epub books or to download them from the library. What that article did not cover, however, was how to get Adobe Digital Editions to recognize a mounted ebook reader, such [...]
February 8th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Libraries have been around for quite some time. One of the nice things about living in the digital age, however, is being able to check out books from the library in digital form. Ebooks, in other words. In order to take advantage of this, a computer user needs to have a library card, access to [...]
February 1st, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
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 30th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
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 Aseem Kishore
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 27th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Getting ready to set up a dual-boot system on any computer can be more than a little intimidating. You have to either re-partition your entire computer, or at least resize an existing partition, if you want your two (or more) operating systems installed side-by-side. With the advent of Wubi, it’s possible to install Ubuntu inside [...]