Getting organized is, for some, a constant struggle. The PC is supposed to help us…does it? For some it does. For some it does not. For those that have trouble getting organized on the PC, a special tool is some times necessary. Getting Things GNOME is a GNOME tool that takes the task list to [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

How many machines do you have? How many contacts do you have? How many machines do you try to keep your contacts in sync on? There are a lot of ways to do this. You could copy those contacts on a flash drive and move them back and forth, making sure you add the new [...]

Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Since today is the birthday of both myself and the US President I thought it apropos to cover a birthday reminder tool for the Linux operating system. There are a few of these tools but only one of them really is worth discussing at any length. That tool? GBirthday. GBirthday is a tool that lives in [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Evolution is an outstanding groupware suite with one of the finest email clients in all of Linux-land. For many users the standard email setup is great. It does everything they need: it sends and receives email (even HTML email if you so desire). But for others a little extra is needed…especially in the form of [...]

Categories: Email, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic

I have covered the Evolution groupware client on Ghacks before (check out all content containing Evolution here). Everything from basic tasks to connecting to an Exchange server, it’s been here on Ghacks. But one thing I have neglected is some of the lesser known, but very useful features tucked away in this fantastic application. So, [...]

Categories: Email, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

We all have too much to do. So much so that we need tools to keep track of everything we need  to do. It used to be we just slapped sticky notes everywhere to remind us what was coming up, what we had to buy, what we had to do…everything. Now we use various applications [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software

I’ve done a few articles about the Evolution groupware client here on Ghacks and I promise more. As Evolution is, essentially, the Outlook of Linux, it deserves plenty of attention. In this article I am going to show you how to tackle the task of handling junk email in everyone’s favorite open source groupware client. [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Email, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

How many times have you migrated from one Linux box to another, only to say goodbye to your email and knowing you were going to have to set your email client up all over again. Oh sure you could tar up that ~/.evolution directory and hope that it worked. Most likely you would wind up [...]

Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Evolution is the groupware suite for the Linux operating system. It is, for all intents and purposes, Outlook for Linux. The only downfall is, out of the box, it doesn’t play well with Exchange 2007. But, like every other hurdle the Linux community has come up against, a work around was created. The work around [...]

Categories: Email, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic