As someone who spends most of the day in front of his laptop I frequently forget things like “Wake me in an hour please”, or “Can you tell me to come out of the bath in 20 minutes?”. Not that I forget, just if I’m enjoying my work time flies by. Cooktimer is a small [...]

Tags: Cooktimer, timer
Categories: Entertainment, Tools

I recently had to clone a hard disk so I naturally turned to solutions such as Acronis True Image, but I discovered these did not work (the start-up disk claimed the clong was ‘complete’ when it blatantly wasn’t) and I also tried copying the partition using gParted in Ubuntu but this froze at about 3%, [...]

Tags: acronis true image, clone disk, command, copy data, dd, disk cloning, disk image, iso, Linux, unix
Categories: Linux, Tools

You just downloaded the newest version of your favorite Linux distribution but you remembered the first time you did it you were in Windows where you had Nero (or some similar application) to help you burn the ISO image onto a CD or DVD. Now you’re in Linux…what do you do? Simple. You turn to [...]

Tags: burning iso, cd burning, dvd burning, iso, K3B, Linux
Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic

After only a couple of articles about The GIMP it is clear there are many users that are still unhappy with the interface. With that in mind I thought I would help users see how simple it is to clean up the interface to make usage even easier.
One of the easiest ways to simplify use [...]

Tags: GIMP 2.4, graphics, graphics software, image manipulation, Linux, The GIMP, user interface
Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic, software

animoto is a site which allows video presentations to be made in a minimal amount of time, claiming to be the killer of slideshows (although in reality they are slideshows!). The end result is an extremely slick slideshow.
The site makes creating a video presentation easily: to create one, all you must do is simply upload [...]

Tags: animoto, photography, photos, presentation, presentations, professional presentations, share photos, slideshow, slideshows, video, video presentations
Categories: Music and Video, Online Services, The Web, Tools

I almost hesitate to offer up any sort of review for the Linux version of Photoshop. Why? I’ve been using it for so long it almost seems unfair to “review” something so familiar. But then I have to step back and remember that not everyone has given The Gimp a go and most probably don’t [...]

Tags: GNU, graphics, image-editing, Linux, photoshop, raster graphics, The GIMP
Categories: Advice, Linux, Mac, Open Source, Tools, Windows, software

The traceroute command lists the servers – which are also called hops – that the connection uses to reach the destination. There is basically never a direct connection to a regular website, it will always use a number of servers before it reaches the destination. Windows users can use the tracert destination command to display [...]

Tags: internet trraceroute, traceroute, traceroute software, tracert, visual traceroute, web hopper, webhopper, windows software
Categories: Tools, Windows