Aiarty Image Matting is a tool that, thanks to artificial intelligence, allows us to transform our photographs into true works of art. When we think of AI, we often associate it with […]
In the seemingly never-ending quest to find the perfect, light weight graphical file manager, I have gone through just about every one I can find. So far my favorite has been Thunar […]
So lately I've been covering some pretty sweet LDAP tools. You've seen "Manage your LDAP data with phpLDAPAdmin", "Access and manage your LDAP data with Luma", and "Set up an LDAP server […]
The search for the perfect LDAP management tool has brought me around to a tool that is very similar to that of phpMyAdmin (for coverage of this tool, see my article "Install […]
I have recently been dealing with LDAP and attempting to find easier solutions for this often daunting task. If you've ever had to try to set up and manage an LDAP server, […]
You've probably seen the advertisements for Windows 7 and the tiling windows feature. Believe it or not the very first tiling window manager was Siemens's RTL (created in 1988). After that came […]
With all of this talk about KDE 4.5 lately, I thought I should take a moment to mention a tool that hasn't had much (or any) talk here on Ghacks. That tool […]
There are times when you need to delete a file...REALLY need to delete a file. Anyone who has been in the business of PCs long enough knows that when you simply delete […]
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is one of the more complicated setups for a Linux machine. LDAP is to Linux what Active Directory is to Window. And if you have a lot […]
In my last article I illustrated how to install Enlightenment by checking out the most recent code from the Enlightenment Subversion Server (see "Installing Enlightenment E17 using subversion"). After that article I […]
If you've spent enough time around Linux you might have come across an installation process that requires the use of SVN. SVN is subversion which is a version control system based on […]
Klipper is the KDE 4.5 clipboard and it is not your average clipboard tool. Unlike most operating system clipboards, Klippy gives the user quick and easy access to not just the last […]
So you've followed the latest series on KDE 4.5 (see Ghacks KDE 4.5 content) and you are now using the spectacular latest release from the KDE team. You want to use Compiz, […]
Do you create or manage a LOT of files? Do you have image files taken from cameras that are all named IMG_XXX.JPG Â (where XXX is a sequential number)? Do you stores of […]
With KDE 4.5 came a lot of updates and changes. From the bottom to the top, nothing was immune from an update or two. One tool that received a nice overhaul is […]
My last article I spoke about the new KDE Activities features Search and Launch Containment Activity (see my article "Using the KDE 4.5 Search and Launch Containment Activity"). This is the first […]
In my last post ("KDE Desktop Activities explained") I set out to help you understand just what KDE Desktop Activities are. This new feature simply wants to make your desktop experience as […]
With the release of KDE 4 a new feature was added that, at first, seemed to be more confusing than anything else. Although the theory behind the idea was simple, the execution […]
For the longest time I have shrugged off KDE 4 because of poor performance. But since 4.4 I have noticed a rather vast leap of the improvement chasm. Now, 4.5 is out […]
There are tons of possible backup solutions for the Linux desktop (and/or server). I have covered a number of possible solutions here on Ghacks. One of my favorite (and the one I […]
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 […]
It's time to head off to that wonderful land of KDE where the desktop only gets better and better with each release. In fact, a new release should be out now - […]
Let's say you're a little bit behind the times. You've wanted to do some upgrading of your Linux machines but you've just not really had the time. Or let's say you did […]
Well all strive to make our desktop as efficient as possible. Whether you're a coder who wants nothing more than to never remove your fingers from the keyboard, or if you're a […]
There are so many Linux distributions out there it's dizzying. Some are simply respins of various base distributions with a different theme or maybe one or two specific applications thrown in for […]
As a writer one of the most important things for me is to keep organized. This may seem like a fairly simple task, but when you are doing everything from researching a […]
I've covered a number of desktop enhancements here on Ghacks. You've see my coverage of Avant Window Navigator (see my article "Avant Window Navigator: OS X-like dock on Linux") as well as […]
I have had a few PCs in my time where keeping track of the temperature was critical to knowing the health of my system. In fact, I had one system that I […]
There are a lot of ways to keep track of your files on your Linux machine. You can use the command-line tools, you can do index searching, you can manually search. But […]
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 […]
Linux is a true multi-user system. What that means is you can have multiple users logged in concurrently. There are so many advantages of this on so many levels. Many modern Linux desktops […]
Most PC users have no idea what a boot loader is. Yet all PCs have them. Most Linux users, by nature, do know what a boot loader is because they have had […]
What do you do when you KNOW your hard disk is failing but you're not ready to do a re-install or lose any of that precious data? Obviously the first solution is […]
If you downloaded and installed Fedora 13, Â most likely you are using the GNOME desktop. If you've been reading me here on Ghacks long enough then you know I am fairly partial […]
I do a lot of work with Linux servers. Many of those servers are either web or mail that require the use of a signed certificate for authentication. In some of these […]
Recently I had a request to illustrate how I managed to get a particular theme working in GNOME. The article referenced was my article on "What will Ubuntu 10.04 bring to the […]
There's a line between closing an application and leaving it open. That line generally lies within the notification area. This is where small apps usually hang out waiting to be quickly re-opened. […]
Some time ago I did a series on the Postfix email server here on Ghacks (see the Postfix content on Ghacks for more information). Hopefully you found this outstanding mail server as […]
Ubuntu 10.04 has been out for a while now...long enough so that some of the more pestering issues have been finally fixed. But in some cases those issues continue on. What do […]
Collaboration is a key component to working in a business or on a team. There are so many ways to collaborate on a project: Google Docs, Online Whiteboards, Chatting, CMS tools, and […]
There are so many Linux distributions out there. Some of them are pretty standard and some of them go well out of their way to try to bring something different to the […]
