A few days back we looked at how to password protect your GRUB boot entries so that a password is required before anyone can boot the operating system or edit the boot entry. Let’s look at some ways you can use to reset your Linux system’s password. You might know that the root user can ...

GRUB or the GRand Unified Bootloader is the bootloader commonly installed by Linux distributions on your hard disk. GRUB is responsible for showing you the menu that allows you to choose the operating system you want to boot into and also lets you tweak and control the booting options. Awesome power...

Instant messaging has been very popular for quite some time now. Although services like Twitter have somewhat tarnished the appeal of IM, chatting with your friends on Google Talk or Yahoo Messenger is not going away any time soon. Here are some of the top tips and tricks that you can use to get mor...

Linux has a wealth of utilities to help you monitor what your system is up to. You can run commands, use the proc file system and get the exact state of your system. All this information is of little use if you cannot display it efficiently. You would need a system monitor right? Well let’s ta...

Let’s face it - not all of us are born geniuses.  Not everyone can know how to do everything in this world (although I think maybe Chuck Norris can!) and we have to learn how to do something before we can be confident enough to do it flawlessly. We have been learning since childhood and life ...

Few days back we looked at how to customize Nautilus to get most out of the context menus and write custom menu entries as per your requirement. Today let’s pay some attention to the good old text editor - Gedit. Gedit is the default text editor for most of the Linux distributions using Gnome ...

The last few years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of BitTorrent users and the content that is available via BitTorrent. Nowadays it is no big deal if you can find a TV Show on BitTorrent before it has premiered on TV. The number of sites indexing and searching BitTorrent files have kept...

CD and DVD are fragile media. A few scratches here and there and they can easily become coasters on your table. I have had plenty of them myself. Let’s just look at some of the ways we can recover data from those spoilt CD/DVD’s. Anatomy of scratches Scratches that are perpendicular (goi...

So how about a tool that is “an exquisite, powerful and multi-functional desktop utility. (It is an) All-In-One, Multi language, Simple and Standalone (no install).” Sounds interesting?  Well that is what was quoted on the developer’s site and instantly caught my attention. After ...

Digital media has literally exploded in the last few years. Nowadays with all the mobile phones and cameras its seemingly hard to find a personal computer that does not house digital photos. Its only human desire to look good and the same is true for digital photos as well. People are often working ...