Keeping your computer system updated is, of course, one of the most important tasks as it saves you from so many security and privacy-related problems, not to mention new features (if any) each update brings along. Most modern day operating systems are configured in a way that they automatically check for updates, saving the user … Read more
You may have heard of OpenShot. It’s a fairly famous simple video editor for Linux. The latest, most readily available version of this video editor is the 1.0 version. If you use it you’ll be able to edit your videos in a very basic way. Without getting into too many details, suffice it to say … Read more
If you’re a Gnome 3 user with dual monitors, you’ll notice that you only really get one screen with a taskbar and workspace switcher. This means that you only really get full control of switching on your main monitor. For some people, this isn’t a huge deal. Not having two taskbars on a dual screen … Read more
Screen recording is extremely useful in many cases. For example: while creating training materials, demonstrating how a feature works, and showing off your gaming prowess. There are many screencasting tools available for Windows and Mac OS, and ironically there’s also no dearth of such applications on Linux. In this article you will learn about the … Read more
You may have heard of Fish. It’s a replacement shell for Bash and has a lot of features going for it. For starters, it can go through and anticipate what you’re typing and auto-complete it. It also comes with sensible defaults, syntax highlighting out of the box, and many, many other features. Introducing Fisherman and … Read more
Computers have become an integral part of not only ours but our kids lives, too. The testimony to this is the fact that even schools around the world are slowly but steadily switching from textbooks to digital education. With this, parents are facing an ever-increasing challenge of keeping tabs on their kids’ computer usage, at … Read more
Despite the fact that set top boxes and devices like Chromecast are becoming popular, media center software is still around, especially on Linux. If you have a lot of local media, and you’re looking for a solution, you should consider an appliance-based solution (like a Kodi or Stremio box) rather than an always-on media server … Read more
Writing Linux distributions to USB disks can be tedious. Formatting that one USB drive over and over can leave dozens of ISO files and USB images littered in your file system. The whole exercise gets tiresome after a while and might even keep you from trying out the latest Linux distributions. Good news! There’s a … Read more
Media servers are not a new thing, and Emby certainly isn’t the first piece of software to run on Linux, but it does have something really unique. It doesn’t require a whole lot of configuration to set up and is considerably easier software to use compared to others available on the Linux platform. This guide … Read more
Netstat is a command line utility that can be used to monitor both incoming and outgoing network connections as well as view routing tables, interface statistics, etc. It can be used to list all the connected TCP and UDP socket connections and also list listening sockets that are waiting for incoming connections. Netstat is available … Read more