By Eli, on January 16th, 2010
When I first installed Google’s Chrome browser, I noticed something odd the first time I ran the application. It’s window had no title bar. I thought that was strange, but I didn’t really mind its absence too much, so I used it like it was. If however, you do miss that title bar at the [...]
By Eli, on December 19th, 2009
Google Chrome Beta is now available for linux. You can go here and download the .deb file for 32 or 64 bit systems. Select the version you’d like to download, and then you can simply click on Open from the box that comes up to download and install the package. It can then be found [...]
By Eli, on November 26th, 2008
Let’s say you want to block certain websites. Maybe to keep your kids off of myspace, for security reasons, or to block advertising from being loaded. You can do this by means of your hosts file. By modifying that little file, you can keep certain websites from being accessed from your computer. Here’s how to [...]
By Eli, on September 24th, 2008
Full Circle Magazine is a monthly online publication about Ubuntu. It features articles on all kinds of things having to do with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu. It has regular features on the command line, and How To’s that will come in very handy. It covers things technical and creative. Magazines are available for download in [...]
By Eli, on September 24th, 2008
If you haven’t checked out Ubuntu Story, do so now. If you’re interested in Ubuntu, and what it’s doing for people, you’ll like this site. Aside from being one of the coolest looking sites you’ll find, it’s a great way to introduce someone to Ubuntu because you can read real life experiences of regular (non-geeky) [...]
By Eli, on September 23rd, 2008
Problem is that you get to a website, or a page of a site and you’re told that you need to be using Internet Explorer to view this page. Great, now what do you do? Try the User Agent Switcher, a Firefox add-on. Here’s how to do it…
By Eli, on March 3rd, 2008
This stumped me for a LONG time. I had Ubuntu for a month or so before I got DSL service. I was too much of a noob to compile a driver for my old internal dial up modem. Here’s how I finally made dial up work.
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