Linux And Friends

Online file storage provides many benefits to people. It makes for a fault tolerant backup system, You can upload your files to the online storage and access them anywhere, even share it with a select few or the general  public. If your computer hard disk crashes, you can rest assured that you have all the [...]

Changing screen resolution in Ubuntu can be achieved in a variety of ways. This article explains a couple of them.

VirtualBox Guest Additions are a set of drivers and utilities which are installed always in the guest OS. Once installed, they improve the performance of the guest OS and its cooperation with rest of the product and even the host OS.

VirtualBox is a robust, easy to use, and  freely available open source software developed by Sun Microsystems. VirtualBox allows you to run different Operating Systems in virtualization mode.  For example, you can run Windows in Linux or vice versa using VirtualBox. I have put together a visual guide explaining how to create a new Ubuntu [...]

Ubuntu 8.10 aka Intrepid Ibex is Ubuntu’s latest version released by Canonical in October 2008.  It is a fabulous Linux distribution in many respects, some of them being ease of installation, ease of use, robust, and can be configured to run all proprietary codecs with little effort.

Windows 7 Beta is a polished Operating System. Although I am an avid Linux user and Open Source supporter, I couldn’t resist the temptation of downloading and installing Windows 7 on my machine. Partly because of the curiosity factor but mostly because I bought a brand new PC and I wanted to see how different [...]

What are WordPress shortcodes? These are small snippets of code which you can embed in your WordPress post. And when you publish your post, WordPress will expand them to the corresponding HTML/XHTML code. For example, in a blog hosted by WordPress.com, you can easily embed YouTube videos using the [youtube=URL] shortcode. Where the URL is [...]

What are the things that make you happy and what are those that make you unhappy? There are two kinds of happiness – Natural happiness. Eg You are naturally happy when you get a promotion at your office in recognition of your dedication, loyalty and  hard work. Synthesized happiness. Eg A disgraced politician saying he [...]