Ebooks are finally taking off and entering the mainstream with devices like the Kindle or Sony’s Ebook Reader. What’s missing is a good software program to manage ebook collections. Calibre is a multi-platform ebook manager that can display, convert, list and sync ebooks. Program versions are available for the Windows, Linux and Mac OS X [...]

Tags: calibre, ebook, ebook collection, ebook library, ebook reader, ebook sync, linux software, mac software, windows software
Categories: Linux, Mac, Windows, software

Those of you who are thinking of giving Linux a try, but are worried that you won’t know how to do simple tasks such as controlling network devices, can let out a sigh of relief. Believe it or not, managing network devices is easier in Linux than it is in Windows.? With the help of [...]

Tags: ethernet, Fedora, GNOME, Linux, linux network management, network adapter, wireless
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

If you’ve ever had to create labels for mailings or any other reason you know how complicated labels can be (when using either a word processor or desktop publishing application). If you use Microsoft Windows you know there are plenty of solutions for label creation. But if you use Linux you might think you are [...]

Tags: design labels, glabels, labels, Linux, office, open-office, professional labels
Categories: Linux, Operating Systems

If you are new to Linux you might be wondering how you can find out how much free memory your system has or how your memory is being used. For this there are two simple to use applications: top and free. The top application informs you what tasks are running and how much memory and? [...]

Tags: free, gnome-system-monitor, Linux, memory management, top
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

I have a young step daughter at home and I know that curiosity can get the best of a young teen. I had been looking for an easy solution to deal with content filtering that would allow me to control over various types of content she could see. So I tured to DansGuardian. This filter [...]

Tags: content filtering, DansGuardian, Linux, proxy, tinyproxy, ubuntu
Categories: Advice, Browsing, Linux, Open Source, Security, The Web, Tutorials Basic, software

If you use a Debian-based Linux distribution then you probably use Synaptic. And if you use Synaptic enough you may have come across an application that it can not find. When you find that combination you will need to add repositories to Synaptic that will allow the system to find and install the application you [...]

Tags: add/remove software, Debian, Linux, Synaptic
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

If you use Firefox you probably have had to enter the address about:plugins to see if the plugin you just installed actually did install. But did you know there is another “about” address you can use to do some serious tweaking in the famous open source web browser? That address: about:config.
The about:config address is a [...]

Tags: about:config, firefox, firefox rendering, tweaking firefox
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, The Web, firefox, software