For years, the terminal in Linux has remained unchanged. After all, there are not many things to fix or improve in a window where you enter commands. At least, theoretically. Guake practically proves this mindset wrong by bringing the terminal to the 21st century – and your fingertips. With a plethora of parameters and functions … Read more
Every day we use Google Search dozens of times to seek information on various topics. Each time, we fire up our browser, visit Google Search’s page, and use our keyboard to enter our query. All this takes some time – not much, but enough to justify the existence of dozens of extensions for the most … Read more
Lately, Microsoft seems to take the path of least resistance in all things. Not too long ago, you couldn’t install and use it on a computer more than 30 days without a valid key. However, now you can use Windows 10 without a key indefinitely. Not to say that it’s legal or illegal. They just … Read more
Most Linux distributions are designed for the general user, but Kali Linux isn’t one of them. This Debian-based distro is perfect for security professionals and curious amateurs who need the right tools for white-hat hacking and system testing. Kali Linux has over 600 installed programs for security testing. It includes the best of them, from … Read more
YouTube remains, for better or for worse, the most popular Internet destination for online videos. Through the years, it has evolved, amassing a massive collection of content and, strangely, mostly remained the same as far as its appearance and the way it works. Although it has gained new features and received tweaks here and there, … Read more
The Task Manager is one of the essential tools that come by default with most operating systems today. Although to the untrained eye, it appears as a live-updating list of all running processes. It is, in fact, precisely that: a list of everything “active” on the computer at any moment. But what most people ignore … Read more
If you ever installed Ubuntu between versions 10 and 16, you surely had contact with the Unity desktop. As it was very different from other graphical shells, some have hated it. Others loved it, including some macOS fans possibly too, as the interface was somewhat similar to Apple’s operating system in some areas. But, alas, … Read more
If you want to use the Kodi media center on your Raspberry Pi, you have a few options. You can either install it on your chosen Linux distribution like Raspbian, or you can also run it, standalone, using OSMC. OSMC is designed and built with the Raspberry Pi in mind. Here’s how you can install … Read more
Personal Package Archives (PPAs) can be great. You get newer software or programs that are missing in your distribution’s default repositories. But from time to time, you will want to remove a PPA for various reasons. How you do this depends on what you want to achieve. Normally, you would find yourself in one of … Read more
If you find you’re recompressing and resizing images day-in, day-out, for example, for use with a specific resolution on your blog’s pages, why not turn the procedure into a one-click affair? You can do it by exploiting Thunar’s support for external functions. We should note that you can do the same thing with any other … Read more