Your first question might be “Why bother changing your grub splash screen?” The answer? Why not! Well, actually there are plenty of reasons you might want to change your Grub splash screen. You could be in a company that wants its brand from top to bottom, or you just want your computer to be cool [...]
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Create a slide-show screen saver with the help of F-spot
The desktop screensaver is one of those gray areas that does nothing for productivity but people always seem to want to tweak, change, and otherwise toil over. For some it’s just a way to save some power. For others, it’s a requirement (by law) that screens lock after a certain period of time. For some [...]
Ubuntu 10.10: Get it while it’s hot
That’s right ladies and gentlemen, Ubuntu 10.10 is officially out and officially hot. With plenty of features to make everything ooh and ahh as well as stability built upon the 10.04 release, which is one of the most stable, usable distributions to date. But why should you download it now and install it? What does [...]
Linux text to speech with Festival
There are many reasons why you would want to enable a text to speech feature on a computer. You could suffer from poor (or no) vision, you might need the feature for a science experiment, or maybe you just want to have your log files read to you. No matter the reason, text to speech [...]
Change the window controls from left to right in Ubuntu
According to Ubuntu >= 10.04, left is the new right. It’s old news by now, but I’m sure there are plenty of you out there who have battled to try to acclimate yourselves to the new “standard”. For some users, this is a no-brainer. But for other users, the paradigm of upper right window control [...]
Setting your computer time in Ubuntu
You computer’s clock does more than just tell you the time. This clock also stamps your email with the correct time as well as documents and much more. So when your PC clock is off, your life is off (at least while you are working). So it is necessary to keep your machine time accurate. [...]
Install LibreOffice on Fedora and Ubuntu
You’ve probably already heard the news. OpenOffice has officially forked into LibreOffice. This fork is thanks to the way Oracle has botched nearly everything it has touched and the OpenOffice community wants to protect the flagship product. So now, there is a fully open office suite that, in my opinion, will actually be able to [...]
Upgrade Ubuntu from 10.04 to 10.10
If you are currently using Ubuntu 10.04 and are interested in 10.10 you have choices – you can burn yourself an ISO and do a complete, fresh installation, OR you can upgrade using apt-get without having to bother with a re-installation. Of course I should warn you that, as of this writing, Ubuntu 10.10 is [...]
A walk around KDE 4.5
Recently I did an introductory “walk around” GNOME (see “A walk around the GNOME desktop“) which offered the new users to Linux a look from the ground level at one of the most popular of the Linux desktops. This time around, I will do the same service to the KDE desktop. I will focus on [...]
A walk around the GNOME desktop
Recently I had a reader request a bit of a “how to” on the GNOME desktop. After giving it some thought, and at first wondering why anyone would need a walk around for the GNOME desktop, I realized that some users simply don’t have the ability to look at the computer desktop from the same [...]
Queue music into Rhythmbox from Nautilus
Nautilus is one versatile file manager. The ability to add actions (with the help of Nautilus Actions) makes Nautils’ ability seemingly endless. I have covered adding actions to Nautilus before (see my article “Add actions to extend Nautilus functionality“). That article covered an earlier version of Nautilus Actions. Now that this tool has matured quite [...]
Merge, split, and watermark your PDFs with PDF Chain
Say you have two PDF documents and you want to merge them into one. Or say you have one long PDF document and you want to split it into sections. Or what if you want to add a watermark What do you do? If you’re really up on your PDF Toolkit commands you could easily [...]
Free-form note taking with Xournal
If you keep a journal you know that some times you just wish your note taking or journaling tool could be a little more free form. There are instances where you want to quickly sketch a drawing without having to open up The GIMP (or another drawing application) or you want to be able to [...]
Let RedNoteBook be your daily journal
There are those of us who like to keep a daily journal. For those that do, the application used for this purpose must fit the bill. For some the daily journal can simply be a text document. For others, however, the journal must be a full-fledged application geared specifically for that purpose. One such tool [...]
Linux Live USB Creator
One of the greatest options to test out a Linux distribution is to create a Live CD and use that to boot the operating system from. That way, no changes are made to the current system, and the user is still able to test Linux extensively. Then, when the user feels comfortable using the operating [...]
Clean up Gconf database with GConf Cleaner
If you are a Windows user you are probably accustomed to cleaning up your registry on a regular basis. Adding and removing software can leave behind unused or corrupt entries in the registry which, in turn, can cause system irregularities or, worse, cause a system to not run. GNOME has it’s own flavor of the [...]
Get back CTRL-ALT-Backspace in Fedora and Ubuntu
Being an old-school Linux user, one of the things that bothers me is that in some of the new distributions the CTRL-ALT-Backspace key combination (the combination that would usually kill and restart the X server) has been disabled. This key combination was always helpful when/if a program seemed to take over X Windows and keep [...]
See what images are being viewed on your network with driftnet
I want to preface this article by saying I am not, in any way advocating spying on your users. With that said, there are times (and reasons) why you might need to see what images are being viewed on your network. Whether it be an end user who is viewing content that goes against specific [...]
Google’s Picasa 3 on Linux
Let’s face it, the photo management tools for Linux can tend to be either too complex for the average user or offer nothing in the way of modern features. The biggest gap in the spectrum of Linux tools for photo management, image editing is smack dab in the center. That center is where the majority [...]
Instant message on your LAN with iptux
I recently covered a great LAN file sharing tool called Giver (see my article “Easily share files on LAN with fellow Ubuntu users using Giver“). I wanted to take that idea a little further and cover a similar tool that allows you to chat with fellow users on your LAN WITHOUT have to add them [...]