If you have ever started to learn a foreign language you have likely realized quickly that you need to learn vocabulary and grammar regularly. Failure to do so can mean that you cannot follow the class anymore which would be disastrous obviously. But even if you are learning alone you want to learn that language [...]
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5 Things Linux does better than Windows - Syncing your iPhone (or iTouch) with Linux
Easily install applications from within Firefox with Appnr
There are so many ways to install applications in Linux. There’s Synaptic, apt-get, dpkg, Ubuntu Software Center, and many more. In Ubuntu (or a Debian derivative) you can even install from your browser with the help of GDebi. But did you know there is another way to install with the help of the Firefox browser? That’s [...]
BlueGriffon HTML Editor
When I have to create a new website I usually rely on scripts like WordPress that offer the core framework and are setup in a few minutes tops. The beauty of it is that I can then concentrate on the content after I have made some theme and plugin modifications. Very easy to to and [...]
Finally a solid Pandora app for Linux
If you are a fan of Pandora Music and a user of Linux you know that Linux is a bit behind in the app space for this service. There are only a few possible clients and, until now, those clients simply were not options. The official Pandora client, due to flash issues, could bring your [...]
Allow Samba through your Linux firewall with ufw
As most of you know, Samba allows your Linux machine to work with Windows machines (and vice versa). Without Samba Linux would be locked in an unable to play nicely on heterogeneous networks. So what most Linux users do is install Samba to allow file/folder sharing and network browsing. Typically speaking, Samba is very easy to install [...]
Setup Ubuntu to browse Windows network by hostname
By default, a Ubuntu desktop with Samba installed will be a member of the Windows workgroup named WORKGROUP. Because that machine is a member of WORKGROUP, you would think you could browse and connect to other machines on the same network by hostname. That is not the case. Instead you would still have to locate [...]
Lesser known features in the latest Ubuntu Software Center
For many, the introduction to the Ubuntu Software Center was a breath of fresh air for the installation of applications on the Linux desktop. With the ability to install thousands upon thousands of applications from a single location, the Ubuntu Software Center was the Apple App Store well before Apple could migrate from the iPhone [...]
VirtualBox 4.0 Released
The popular virtualization software VirtualBox 4.0 has just been released on the official website. The Open Source solution that is freely available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh computer systems sports a full bag of feature additions, fixes and redesigns. The official changelog lists all the changes, among them a major rework of the graphical user [...]
Working with bezier curves and nodes in Inkscape
If you do any graphics you know that, at some point, your work is going to have to turn to much higher quality tools. Although I find The GIMP great for day to day raster work, when you need higher quality, line art and vector graphics, you have to turn to a took like Inkscape. [...]
Five tips for keeping your Ubuntu desktop safe
So you finally made the plunge and have a brand spanking new Ubuntu Linux desktop. You feel far more superior and safer than you did prior to using Linux. So much more safer you feel like there’s nothing more you need to do to keep your machine and your data safe. And relatively speaking you [...]
Create an ssh key with Seahorse
Seahorse is a very powerful tool for the creation and managing of various keys. Seahorse is the default keyring manager for the GNOME desktop. I have covered Seahorse here on Ghacks before (see “Create, sign, and publish your PGP keys with Seahorse“), but one aspect I didn’t cover was the use of Seahorse for secure [...]
Use gkDebconf to reconfigure debconf-using programs
There are certain applications, such as MySQL and Apache that are configured upon installation. The most familiar to you might be MySQL. At the point of installation you configure the server address, admin password, etc. But what happens when you need to reconfigure that tool and you don’t want to go through the process of [...]
Configure Samba shares in CentOS
Server OSes, such as CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise do not enjoy the same simplicity as does the modern Linux desktop when it comes to issues like sharing out directories (even though they share the same default desktops). You can see how easy it is to share out folders in my [...]
Add spell check to Nano
If you’ve been reading Ghacks long enough, you know my favorite console-based text editor is Nano. Nano is simple to use, efficient, and extensible. Nano can be used for many things: Writing, programming, editing configuration files, and more. Depending upon your needs, you might need to check the spelling of what you are writing or [...]
Linux Games: Gridwars
As far as killing time with games is concerned, you will be hard pressed to find a better game than Gridwars. Gridwars is very much like the secret game Geometry Wars that was the secret bonus game tucked into Gotham Racing 2 for the XBox (Which then evolved into Geometry Wars: Retro, available for XBox [...]
Add a user-configurable menu to your Linux desktop with 9menu
I love menus. Actually, I love to be able to configure menus in order to make the Linux desktop be as efficient as possible. The problem with that is, I tend to not go with the usual desktop (GNOME or KDE). So sometimes getting the menus exactly how I like them (or to suit my [...]
PhotoRec File Recovery Software
PhotoRec is a file recovery software for various operating systems including Microsoft Windows but also Linux and Mac OS X. The free program ships with Testdisk, a well known program for recovering lost partitions on a computer system. The name would suggest that it can only be used to recovery digital pictures but that is [...]
Add SSL to CentOS web server
CentOS might well be one of the finest Linux distributions for a server environment. It is basically a mimic of Red Hat Enterprise Linux without the proprietary software and the price attached to it. With that in mind, it makes perfect sense to set CentOS up as your go-to Web server. It’s reliable, it’s stable, [...]
Easily connect Linux to a Windows Domain
The task of joining Linux to a Windows domain can be a challenge. I have covered it before here (see my article “Join a Ubuntu machine to a Windows domain“), but many users have had issues with Likewise Open either not being able to join or not being able to reliably remain joined. Naturally, if [...]
Add a quick-access shortcuts to the GNOME right-click menu
I use the terminal A LOT. Why? Because I’m an old-school Linux user. Because of this I like to have multiple ways to quickly access my terminal. In my never-ending search for more and more ways to make my desktop life easier, I came across a nifty way to add a program shortcut to the [...]