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Ubuntu as Mom’s Operating System

A lot of tech-savvy indivuals face the same dilema: their parents, who aren’t so tech-savvy, count on them to provide constant technical support for their Mom & Dad PC.  This can become an incredible burden in a Windows world, where the dangers of spyware, viruses, and total system meltdown loom large.  I’ve found that the [...]

Howto Delete Files Permanently and Securely in Windows

Introduction Note: this is a Windows equivalent of my popular article, Howto Delete Files Permanently and Securely in Linux. When you normally delete a file in Windows, you aren’t actually making that file disappear from your hard drive — not even when you empty it from the recycle bin. This is because deleting a file doesn’t actually overwrite it [...]

BTGuard Anonymizing Service: Is it worth it?

Introduction BTGuard is a paid proxy service intended for bittorrent users. For $6.95 a month you can use BTGuard to hide your IP address from other downloaders and bypass any traffic shaping your ISP performs to limit your bittorrent usage. I’ve given this service a try, with mixed results. Read on for more. NOTE: I’ve [...]

Manage your Movie Collection with Griffith

Introduction Griffith is an application for the Gnome desktop that organizes your movie collection, much in the same way Alexandria is used to organize your book library. Simply by entering the name of a movie, Griffith will query various databases on the internet and download cover art, plot details, and cast information. Installation Griffith is [...]

10 Steps to Convert a Windows User to Linux

Introduction With Linux becoming more popular and easier to use, more and more people are adopting it as their primary operating system. But the transformation from Windows user to Linux user can be a tough road to take. Most new users become long-term users because they have friends that introduce Linux to them, and help [...]

Howto Add Items to the Right-Click Menu in Nautilus

How to add items to the right-click menu in Nautilus, Gnome's desktop interface.

Backing-up in Linux Made Easy with TimeVault: An In-Depth Review

Backing up in Linux is finally made simple with Time-Vault, a graphical, periodic, snapshot-based program that makes it easy to start, monitor, and modify backups, as well as restore data.

Managing your Book Collection with Alexandria

Introduction Alexandria is an application for Linux allows you to sort and track your book collection. It makes it easy to manage your collection by allowing you to sort items into multiple libraries (for example, books at your office, in your home, or elsewhere), and adding books is as simple as entering its ISBN. Once [...]