Podcasts have been around for a long time, and with good reason. Podcasts are a great way for users to retrieve and save various forms of educational and entertainment audio broadcasts. From indie writers, to major journalists, to just about anything you can imagine, you can find a podcast. But where do you find podcasts [...]

Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Online Services, Open Source, Software

If you’re like me, you do a lot of uploading to pastebin services. Although the task isn’t terribly difficult, sometimes you’re in a hurry and you just wish there was a much faster way. With the help of a little application called Nautilus-pastebin your pastebin uploads are only a right-click away. In this article I [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Nagios is not just a tool, it’s one of the best open source network monitors available. Nagios has a simple plug-in design that allows administrators to easily create their own checks and monitors. The problem that so many see with Nagios is that it is supposedly so difficult to install. That is not the case. [...]

Categories: Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Software, Tools, Tutorials Basic

Touchpads on laptops running Windows are limited when it comes to finger gestures that the touchpad accepts. That’s unlike the touchpad on Macs that offer additional possibilities that Windows users until now were not able to use. Two Finger Scroll tries to change that by adding to the functionality of Synaptics touchpads. The portable software [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

You may remember my mention of the Ubuntu Software Center in my article “Ubuntu Karmic Koala preview“. Well, Karmic Koala is now officially Ubuntu 9.10 and is on the streets. I have installed the release and am as pleased as I expected I would be. One aspect of 9.10 that I was most interested in [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

If you have been reading my tutorials on Ghacks long enough you will have seen mention of the Synaptic package manager quite often. There’s a good reason for this – the Synaptic package manager is one of the best and most user-friendly installation tools available (for any operating system). Not only does it make for [...]

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

If you’ve spent enough time over the years with Linux you know that the browser plug-in has been a source of agony for many. When plugins first became a necessity for browsing Linux was at an “early” age and adding these plugins was truly a nightmare. That was then, this is now. During my first [...]

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

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 [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

You have finally managed to get Ubuntu installed and you are up and running. And even though there are tons of new and exciting pieces of software on your hard drive, you still long for more. Never fear, installing applications in Ubuntu is as simple as it gets. As with everything Linux, there are multiple [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic