February 14th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
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 Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
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 12th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
A common trait for many Linux programs is that they are designed for a specific purpose. One tool per job is a kind of mantra that software developers seem to strive for. While there are certainly programs that can do more than a single task (such as media players that can play audio, video, stream [...]
February 11th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
Many computer users take advantage of the fact that there are hundreds and hundreds of available themes available to give their computer a customized look. There are different window and button controls, color schemes, icon sets and cursors, not to mention thousands and thousands of different wallpaper options. On devices such as the Barnes and [...]
February 10th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
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 Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
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 Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
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 7th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
If you have a music collection that has been obtained through a variety of methods (some purchased from online stores, others coming from CDs you have ripped yourself), then it’s likely that the ID3 tags in your music aren’t entirely consistent. Maybe, for instance, some of your music is by a group called “The Beach [...]
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 [...]
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