htop is a powerful terminal-based system monitoring application that presents data of various system processes and their resource consumption in a human-readable, color-coded, easy-to-use format. htop is a replacement, or rather supplement to the well-known, tried and tested “top”, offering many enhancements such as mouse support, the direct killing of processes, and a more human-readable … Read more
Are you on Fedora 22 and puzzled by the fact that after you install you just can’t log in or do anything? Don’t worry! This is just a simple issue with Wayland (the next generation display server for Fedora). Not everyone will encounter this issue inside GDM. This problem mostly appears with certain types of … Read more
TimeLine is a free, cross-platform timeline-creator application, written in Python, that runs natively on Linux, Mac OS X and even Windows. It will allow anyone to effortlessly create custom timelines, for any purpose they like, with many useful features like grouping of events, custom visual representation and more. Timelines might have many uses from educational … Read more
So, you have a Chromebook and have installed Crouton so that you can use regular Linux on it, right? Now, how about making that Linux install just a little bit more useful by enabling auto-start. By enabling auto-start for your Crouton installation, you completely remove the need to start ChromeOS, open a terminal and enter … Read more
Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the most commonly used formats for exchanging documents, especially on the Web. While its USP is that it maintains the consistency of a document, the uneditable nature of PDF documents is a disadvantage when compared to other easily-editable file formats like DOC and TXT. In this article we … Read more
If you’re a PC nerd, you no doubt worry about the temperatures that various components output while in use. Even if you are not a nerd, you may also be concerned about the loud noise made by the CPU fan and the sudden surge in your laptop temperature. For Windows users, monitoring temperatures is as … Read more
If you’ve ever used YouTube for any amount of time, you might have noticed that some users have started adding little logos on top of their videos. These things are known as watermarks. They’re very important as they help the creator convey whatever brand or logo that they are pushing in their videos. So, how … Read more
Microsoft will soon release a cross platform code editor to develop ASP.NET and NodeJS applications in Windows, Linux and Mac. The Visual Studio Code is an advanced code editor which is part of the Visual Studio family. I will give that a moment to sink in. Yes, Microsoft has made a code editor for Linux. … Read more
Distraction-free, full-screen writing software has been popular among writers on all platforms for many years now. Such software offers an apparent solution to a common writer’s problem: too many distracting websites applications, games system functions, and emails to attend to, especially when one feels less like writing and secretly welcomes any distraction as a saviour. … Read more
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has released a new cloud operating system, called Snappy Ubuntu Core. While Ubuntu Core might be a familiar name to many, meaning a bare-bones, minimalistic Ubuntu system, the new “snappy” approach is not something many would be familiar with. Although Snappy Ubuntu Core is meant for cloud systems, Ubuntu … Read more