If you have read many articles on privacy tips, you will surely come across a tip that asks you to install the “HTTPS everywhere” extension so that it will automatically redirect you to the HTTPS version of the website whenever possible. The bad thing is the HTTPS everywhere extension works only when the website you … Read more
When Ubuntu 16.04 LTS came out a lot of people were talking about Snap packages – everything from how great they are to installing Ubuntu 16.04 if you want to try them out. This was considered to be the killer app by some, and it’s not hard to see why (if you’re into that). However, … Read more
If you are a full time Linux user, you’ll agree that a lot of tools are required to perform day-to-day work. For example, you need a text editor, an application for viewing binary or hex files, a software that can compare files, an archive creator and extractor, and the list goes on and on. While … Read more
Suppose you are editing an image on your Ubuntu PC, and you wnt to save it midway (with the editing done so far) to then continue with the rest of editing. What would you do in this case? The most common and obvious answer would be to use the “Save As” option from the editor’s … Read more
If you’re a Linux command line user, you’ll agree that there are times when you do not want certain commands you run to be recorded in the command line history. There could be many reasons for this. For example, you’re at a certain position in your company, and you have some privileges that you don’t … Read more
Linux users generally have an easy time finding and installing software. Just about every distribution has a software repository with a nice, graphical front-end. To install a program you usually only have to search for it and then press the “Install” button. If the software isn’t available in the repository, you can usually find pre-compiled … Read more
We’ve already discussed a utility called weather that lets you check weather information of any location from the Linux command line. While the application delivers what it promises, its output is nothing but a bunch of text that demands careful reading, and more importantly, you have to first install the tool on your system to … Read more
Desktop system viewers aren’t a new thing on Linux. With tools like Conky and Bginfo4X, it’s safe to say that displaying system information, uptime, RAM usage, CPU usage, etc., right on the user’s desktop has been something everyone has tried at one point on Linux. Enter Fanbox: a simple HTML5, CSS and Javascript-based dashboard for … Read more
If you’re an owner of multiple computers, or at the very least the user of multiple Linux distributions, you’ll no doubt be aware of how annoying it can be to have to make live USB sticks over and over. There has to be a better way, right? There is! Introducing Linux AIO: it’s a tool … Read more
We already know how to create a screenscast in Linux. We’ve also discussed a tool that lets you create an animated GIF out of a screencast. Now, imagine a situation where your screencast contains the recording of some important commands that you enter in the Terminal. Given the fact that there were many application windows … Read more