February 24th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: Linux Tips
On February 14, the newest release of LibreOffice (version 3.5), was released. LibreOffice is the fork of OpenOffice, a longtime open-source office suite for Mac, Windows and Linux, that has become popular with most Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. The problem for Ubuntu users wanting the newest version is that the installable copy of LibreOffice offered [...]
February 23rd, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: Linux Tips
In Linux, as with other operating systems, when you right-click on a folder or file, you’ll see a contextual menu appear with different actions you can perform on that item. For audio and video files, you’ll see a list of which programs can play them, and with documents such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, [...]
February 22nd, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
Spotify is one of the more popular streaming music services. It offers two tiers of paid services (either $4.99 or $9.99 per month), both of which are free of any advertising, as well as a free option. One of its main drawbacks, at least for users from the United States, was that because of licensing [...]
February 21st, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
Have you ever come across a word on a website that you didn’t know the meaning of? Maybe it was a difficult word in English, or maybe in a foreign language. Regardless, wouldn’t it have been nice to be able to click on the word and almost immediately get a defintion? Thanks to a handy [...]
February 20th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: Linux Tips
As anyone who has used Linux for any amount of time can tell you, one of its greatest strengths is in its customizability. You aren’t stuck with a preset icon theme, or window theme, or overall look and feel. If you want something else you can find thousands of options, download one of them, and [...]
February 19th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
Ubuntu 11.10 brought with it quite a few changes. The Unity desktop is now the default (with only the GNOME Shell and GNOME Fallback sessions available for those who want something different), and GDM – the longtime login manager – was replaced with LightDM. So now, when a user logs in, they will see this. [...]
February 18th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
There are quite a few popular search engines available today, and each have their fans. Google is easily the most popular, but Bing and Yahoo are also used by millions of users every day. So it’s nice to be able to choose which you’ll use by default, and Google Chrome makes that easy? How easy? [...]
February 17th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
In Linux, as in Mac OS X, user passwords are stored in a keyring; in Ubuntu this is known as GNOME Keyring, while in Kubuntu, which uses the KDE desktop environment, it is known as Wallet. Regardless, passwords of all sorts, from your wireless router’s key to your Gmail login, are stored in this keyring. [...]
February 16th, 2012 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Linux Tips
The Unity desktop has never been easy to customize. You can customize some options using the Compiz Settings Manager, but there is no easy way to access all the settings for the Unity desktop. We found a program, called MyUnity, that allows you to customize every part of your Unity desktop, including the Launcher, the [...]
February 15th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
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 [...]
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