Having a powerful password is a must if you care about the privacy of your data & security in general. But the more “powerful”passwords that you have the harder it can be to remember them afterward. Especially if you have …
GNU/Linux OS is a lot “inspired” by the old and stable Unix system thus it inherits a number of architectural features from it. Concerning the PC boot-up process, GNU/Linux run core components of the OS (known as “system services”) according …
Clipboard manger is the software application that deals with the short-term data in your Computer. For instance, whenever you use commands like “Copy” or “Paste” (for copying words/text or even take screenshots,etc) then that data is stored in a location …
Touch typing is an extremely useful skill that once learn (even for the “average” computer users) can really can speed things up because it saves a huge amount of time and effort. Another word that goes with touch typing is …
The container format is the heart of any multimedia file because it’s what holds all the audio/video/subtitle and other codecs related data. Now there are a lot of multimedia container formats around but in my experience although they may not …
Avi is a pretty old multimedia container invented by Microsoft. It’s still widely in use and supports few different codes etc but its ability to handle errors or the durability is certainly not that good. I’ve had videos that I …
Unless you’re really new to GNU/Linux, it’s highly unlikely that you’ve never heard of Audacity. If you haven’t nonetheless then, Audacity is simply one of the best, free & open source audio editing and recording utilities that comes with cross-platform …
If your Internet connection has a bandwidth limit then having installed a network bandwidth monitor is a must have. Ubuntu’s system monitor can let you monitor networks too but it does not keep a track of the data. Now there …
Creating a disc image has its advantageous rather than the usual “copy->paste” methods as it lets us create an exact replica of the source disc. For instance, if you’re trying to make a boot-able copy of say Ubuntu itself, then …
Adobe invented the PDF (portable document format) thus their PDF Reader is perhaps one of the most widely used applications for reading PDF files. But in my experience, apart from all of its features and usability, it’s a PC resources …
Usually when you double click on certain types of executable files such as a script (.sh) or a “.bin” file for instance, then Nautilus (default file manager in Gnome and Ubuntu) lets you run them either through the command-line or …
