The combination of Qt and Webkit seems to be very fertile, because new lightweight browsers built on it are surfacing constantly. One such browser is Dooble, a small but fast application that runs on Linux, Windows, OS X and FreeBSD. Dooble is mainly concerned with privacy and security, and its interesting approach makes it worth … Read more
In Linux you can easily set a particular window to be always on top of other windows by right-clicking on the title bar and selecting the “Always On Top” option. This is useful when you need to constantly refer to the information in a window. However, if you are more of a keyboard user, you … Read more
When people install Linux these days, for the most part they’re doing it via a USB stick. There are a whole lot of graphical tools on Linux that can help with creating the live disk. These tools are all fine and everything, but what about a command line based option? How to make a USB … Read more
There’s a popular saying that “if there’s something about KDE you don’t like, there’s probably a button that lets you change it“, and the default lock screen might be one of the things you’d like to change. Whether you’re an Android, Windows or Mac OS X user, you’re probably familiar with the lock screen feature. … Read more
Remember Opera? It used to be a really awesome browser back in the day. Now it has largely been reduced to a Google Chrome fork. This is not to say that the latest version of the Opera browser is absolutely terrible. The current version – it just feels too similar to Chrome and doesn’t set … Read more
If I were to describe one of the current Linux trends as of late, it would be lightweight desktops. A lot of interest has been generated around projects that create a desktop Linux experience that has the ability to run lighter on your machine. Perhaps the most notable is the Mate project. If you don’t … Read more
Ubuntu checks for a system update every day and prompts you when there is a newer version of a software or system update available. If you would like to automate the whole updating process so it can install the update automatically in the background, here is how you can do so. In Ubuntu, open the … Read more
While working with the command line, there are times when you might want to manually send an email to communicate one-liner information, say a complex command or an important note to yourself or a friend. Normally, that requires you to open a web browser, log in to your email account, frame an email containing the … Read more
If you’re an Ubuntu user, you’re probably using Unity, a graphical shell for the GNOME desktop environment. One of the most noticeable features of Unity is Dash, a search tool that opens when you click the Ubuntu logo present at the top of Unity launcher, allowing you to access applications whose icons aren’t there on … Read more
Managing and keeping track of tasks, events, and appointments is an important part of every professional’s daily routine. Talking in terms of software, different people use different software that helps them do this. While most prefer using GUI-based software, not everybody spends their day in front of a GUI-enabled machine – I am talking about … Read more