This brief tutorial will guide you through changing the Ubuntu login screen, and provide a few resources so that you can download some additional themes. [click to continue...]

This brief tutorial will guide you through converting .pdf files into .txt files. [click to continue...]

YUM is a very cool software installation and management tool for Red Hat Linux based systems. It makes installing new packages or updating existing ones a breeze by taking care of installing all the dependancies. Let’s look at how to set it up on a Fedora Linux machine and then how to use it. [click to continue...]

Part 1 of this tutorial guided you through using RegistryBooster 2009 to increase stability and improve the speed of your PC. Part 2 covers another product by the same folks - DriverScanner 2009. [click to continue...]

This brief tutorial will show you how to hide, but not delete, apps from your BlackBerry’s Applications window. It will also show you how to ‘unhide’ any/all apps that you’ve opted to hide. The steps and screenshots used in this tutorial are specific to the BlackBerry Pearl, but I suspect are similar or identical for other models. I can’t confirm that, as I only have a Pearl. [click to continue...]

This brief tutorial will show you how to move/rearrange programs on your BlackBerry Applications window so that they’re ordered the way you want. The instructions outlined are specific to the BlackBerry Pearl, but I suspect are similar if not identical to other BlackBerry devices (I can’t confirm as I only have a Pearl). [click to continue...]

Symlinks or symbolic links are the Linux equivalent of shortcuts in Windows. Creating symlinks of files or folders can be quite useful in Linux, as you can shorten a path such as /var/www/html/application/configuration/images/config.php to something easier to remember and manage such as /var/www/html/image-config.php. Let’s see how this can be done. [click to continue...]

This tutorial will guide you through installing Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) using Parallels Desktop 4.0 (Build 4.0.3810) for OS X. [click to continue...]

RPM or Red Hat Package Manager is the default package management solution for Linux distributions based on Red Hat Linux. It’s a pretty useful way to easily install, upgrade, and un-install packages on Linux machines. I remember the days when every Linux package had to be compiled. Let’s see how to perform some basic tasks with RPM. [click to continue...]

This tutorial will guide you through creating a font directly from your own hand writing.

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Using Google Mobile App you can search the web from your BlackBerry to search by voice, which is an absolutely killer feature. Once installed, all you have to do is speak the words you want to search for, and Google Mobile App will display the search results. [click to continue...]

The other day I needed to migrate a directory containing a lot of files from one location on my Linux server to another. There are a number of ways I could do this. Using a simple cp command could have done the trick. However, as the data I was copying was a database and I wanted to make sure that the copying was done perfectly, I looked on the Internet and found a brilliant one line bash solution for this. [click to continue...]

Have multiple browsers installed on your Ubuntu machine? Sometimes it can be a bit confusing if you want to change the the default web browser from one to another. Here’s a simple way you can make the switch using the Linux command line. [click to continue...]

This brief tutorial will show you how to quickly figure out if your current CPU will support Windows 7’s new “Windows XP Mode” feature. [click to continue...]