Linux-based operating systems are deemed to be more stable than other operating systems. Testimony to this is the fact that Linux powers over 95% of supercomputers in the world. However, stability and performance doesn’t mean that Linux systems don’t experience app or OS freezes. There could be many different types of freezes such as situations … Read more
Regardless of the operating system being used, we’re used to the idea that our current OS will become obsolete every few years, and a newer version will be released to replace the current one. However, some Linux distributions have adopted a different release model. Instead of releasing a new version every year, they use a … Read more
Telegram: It’s a service that many people love. In just 2015 alone, usage of it absolutely exploded. It’s safe to say that this platform is on its way to becoming one of the most popular messaging services out there, even competing with the likes of Whatsapp, Hangouts, Facebook Messenger and more. Still, though the platform … Read more
So your friend in the United States told you about Pandora, and the service immediately caught your fAndy. You tried accessing it from your location (say India) but got an error saying that Pandora isn’t available in your region. I am sure this situation happends often. Frankly speaking, it’s the end of the road for … Read more
If you read our article on KDE Connect and actually went ahead and installed it to display notifications from your Android phone to your Ubuntu PC, so far, so good. But gradually you may have realized that while having mobile notifications on your computer saves some of your precious time, it proves to be a … Read more
At times there are situations where you need to record your desktop and create an animated GIF out of it. For example, the situation might arise while writing a tutorial or while replying to a forum post. There are a lot of tools that do this for you if you are on Windows or Mac … Read more
Quite a few times, while installing/updating a package from the command line (using apt-get or apt) in Ubuntu, we get this error: E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/). From a beginner’s point of view, it’s a complex error, as new users are mostly not aware about the “/var/lib/dpkg/” directory and what it has … Read more
With over a billion users, WhatsApp is undoubtedly one of the most popular mobile messaging services available today. The Facebook-owned company recently launched dedicated desktop clients for the service. However, the availability is currently limited to Windows and Mac OS. This means Linux users are currently out of luck, something which, in general, they are … Read more
In the next release of Subsonic the software is going closed source. This is a huge deal in the open source community, as a lot of people use it. To most users not invested in the open source community, this might not be a big deal. If you don’t really care about software licenses or … Read more
Animated GIFs have become really popular in the past few years, and their popularity is growing with each passing day. Don’t agree? Think about this: over a whopping 23 million GIFs are posted to Tumblr every day. So clearly there’s an audience for this image format. Does that entice you to create GIFs? If yes, … Read more