January 17th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: Linux Tips
In a previous article, we detailed how to use the tar command to create archives. While tar is a very common compression scheme for Linux, it isn’t nearly as popular for Windows and Mac OS X users, who will find most of their archives created using the zip format. It’s easy to use Zip (to [...]
January 16th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
As ebook readers have become more and more popular over the past few years, there have cropped up numerous websites that make purchasing and downloading ebooks incredibly simple. The already existing Project Gutenberg website, for instance, which already made tens of thousands of books available as txt and html files, now makes those same books [...]
January 15th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: Linux Tips
Most computer users are concerned (at least to a certain extent), about whether their computer is “secure” or not, and nowhere is this more important than the Internet. Not simply because you might stumble across a malicious website or receive a virus via an email attachment, but because so many of us are running services [...]
January 14th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
One of the great advances in Web technology for the Desktop user has been the increase in complexity of Web applications. It’s now possible to not only write your emails online, but use word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation programs, not to mention edit images, audio and even video, all within your web browser. Google Docs [...]
January 13th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
Ever since August 24, 2011, when Sun discontinued its “Operating System Distributor License for Java,” Linux distributions (including Ubuntu), no longer have the ability to have Java (including the web browser plugin), in their software repositories. This includes Ubuntu’s “partner” repository. While installed copies of Java will continue to work, this will not be the [...]
January 12th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
In Windows and Mac OS X, when an object is sitting on your Desktop, the label will generally be in white text, with no background. Then, when highlighted, the background behind the text will become highlighted with whatever your standard “highlight” color is. This is also true with Linux, for the most part. Both GNOME [...]
January 11th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
There are any number of streaming music services available today, and a lot of them are very good. There are free options, such as Pandora, and paid options such as MOG and Rdio (although both of those services do offer free options as well). Not too long ago, Amazon added a web player to its [...]
January 10th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: Linux Tips
In Linux, it’s pretty simple (as it is in most operating systems), to restart your computer, logout of your user account, or completely shutdown your system. Often, it’s as simple as hitting the power button on your computer, or clicking a button on the toolbar. In Xubuntu, you’ll see a window like this appear. This [...]
January 9th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: How-To
While Google images is great from a user standpoint—we can find images for just about anything and anyone—it is not as well received by the webmasters who own the pictures, because anyone can steal and reuse images with just a few clicks. Watermarking helps deter image-stealing. but making a good watermark often takes more time [...]
January 8th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: How-To
There’s a fairly good selection of apps, programs, and browser extensions on the market that will block advertisements and pop up ads. However, many of these add-ons do not necessarily enhance your web browsing experience. Evernote, the popular company who develops note taking software and applications, has a few other, less known products also, one [...]
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