An Android smartphone is often a gateway to most commercial IoT gadgets. A Nest Smoke alarm is managed through a relevant Android app. So is a Nest Thermostat to control the temperature. Smart locks, doorbell cams – almost all smart devices can be accessed from Alexa or other master apps. What if someone were to … Read more
There are plenty of reasons to set up a home server. You might use it as a media server, a file server, or even a local backup server. Basically, any files of yours that don’t need to be online are good candidates for a home server. Setting up a Linux-powered home server is relatively easy, … Read more
If you have installed and are dual-booting macOS on your Linux machine, you will find that the macOS entry doesn’t show up in the Grub menu automatically. If you want to boot into macOS, you will need to manually create a Mac boot entry in Grub. Here we show you the instructions to add the … Read more
Evernote is often praised as the best note-taking app. Although it’s multi-platform, Evernote doesn’t have an official Linux version; however, there are many good alternatives. MyNotex is a Linux application that doesn’t get featured on lists of Evernote alternatives, which is a shame. It provides the same core functionality as Evernote without the unnecessary bloat … Read more
Most distributions come by default with a simple to use, but also somewhat lacking in features Terminal. Thankfully, there are many alternatives you can turn to as an upgrade. Some might excel as far as customization goes, others offer more features. Tilix works as a nice middle road between those choices. Let’s see how you … Read more
Almost every Internet user makes hundreds of DNS (Domain Name System) calls every day, and you probably are not aware that your DNS queries are sent in plain text. What this means is that people managing your DNS server (mostly provided by your ISP) can see where you are heading to on the Internet. Even … Read more
When you download software from the Internet, you have to trust the developer(s) that their program isn’t malicious. However, you also have to worry about hackers. There is a lot an attacker can gain from hacking a website and replacing software with a backdoored version. Think about a site that hosts a Bitcoin wallet utility. … Read more
Since its inception, Linux was tailored to support a multi-user environment. With many users and groups on a working system, it is quite common to encounter directories shared between users of the same group, and issues arise from the sharing of files in the directories. In this article, we will discuss how you can make … Read more
Wireshark is a GUI-based network packet analyser that lets you inspect packet data from a live network as well as from a previously captured file. Although it’s a very powerful tool, a common problem that newbies face is that it displays so much data that it becomes really difficult for them to pinpoint the actual … Read more
There are many different ways to create slides for a presentation on Linux. You can use OpenOffice, LibreOffice or even Microsoft Office (via Wine). Your completed presentation will be either an .odp (OpenDocument format) or .ppt (Powerpoint format) file, which you use via the suites mentioned above (or a viewer app) to give your presentation. … Read more