Most Linux software are extremely easy to customize, so it should be no surprise that the same thing can be said for Grub. In a previous article, I discussed about bootloaders and named three that I would recommend. By far, my per...
It’s about time we have the ‘talk’. The talk about Boot Loaders or as some call them Boot Managers. It is a very uncommon question and it has stumbled many of even the most savvy users. Truthfully, many people ar...
This article is part of an ongoing series that hopes to bring a working knowledge of Linux to users of Windows. In the first article, we introduced Linux on a basic level. In the second article, we answered some commonly asked que...
Dual booting MacOS and Windows is super easy with BootCamp, but what about Linux? The answer is disappointing, with BootCamp you are not able to install Linux. Today I want to help you get a Linux distro running on your Mac. In th...
Over the past few years Google has been offering fonts for web developers to use on their sites. Google has a vast collection of beautiful fonts and all of them are free and open source (so to speak). Few people know that you can ...
Today and many times in the past, I was brutally attacked by Windows Update. A client of mine was having an issue with a VB macro and, an hour into fixing the problem, the computer decided to automatically restart to apply a Windo...
Since the days of Netscape, we have all been fighting and claiming that one browser is better then the rest. Like any choice in life, we choose what works best for us and that is great. In this article I want to talk directly abou...
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a free and open source alternative to Photoshop that is available on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, Mac OS X, and Linux; it provides huge network of extensions and add-ons. Today I will cove...
GNU Image Manipulation Program or GIMP for short, is a very powerful image editing tool. Let’s face it, we all need something to edit our pictures and we need something a little better than paint. Some people turn to Photos...
Recently I was browsing through a list of all of the applications that I use, some of them are not very popular but they are very useful. I needed away to cut-down the list and so I decided to list cross-platform applications only...
This article is part of an ongoing series that hopes to bring a working knowledge of Linux to users of Windows. In the first article, we introduced Linux on a basic level. In the second article, we answered some commonly asked que...
LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite, that gives you tools similar to Microsoft Office and is available on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, Mac OS X, and Linux. One feature of Microsoft Office is the ability to choose a skin...
This article is part of an ongoing series that hopes to bring a working knowledge of Linux to users of Windows. In the first article we introduced Linux on a basic level. In the second article we answered some commonly asked quest...
Popular internet leader Mozilla has announced that they are going to be producing a cheap smartphone geared towards the developing world. It may be a bit hard to understand why the developing portions of our world need (want) smar...
As it seems the list of features removed in Windows 8 is never ending. One of features Microsoft removed was the ability to be notified of new updates from the taskbar. In previous versions of Windows we had a small icon appear to...
