I have featured tutorials on how to install Compiz/Beryl before and here's another one for those who are using Ubuntu 7.04, NVidia graphics card and Gnome.

I cannot wait to have this eye-candy …

One of the things I love about my Macbook Pro is its Sleep mode (hibernate) – just close the lid and the system automagically saves the computer's state allowing for instant on when the lid is ope…

Most current Linux distributions made it very easy to configure your graphical user interface, aka X Window System. However, the graphical tool to configure xorg.conf, the X11 config file, is not alwa…

We all know that Linux is far better than windows xp and Vista. However, here's a couple of optimization tips that will blow Windows XP and Vista out of the water.

Frankly, it makes sense. Linux…

One of Apple's upcoming operating system feature is called Time Machine. It is a fully eye-candied back-up utility that comes bundled, for free, with 10.5 a.k.a. Leopard.

Whilst Time Machine is …

Microsoft's Vista has a feature called ReadyBoost, that improves, hopefully, the performance of the computer with the addition of USB thumbdrives or HDD. Whilst the performance differs from each m…

Not to be accused of being too biased towards Ubuntu (which I am, btw), here's a feature on how you can create your own Linux distribution using the YaST tool that OpenSUSE has been using.

Frank…

Over at the Ubuntu Forums, there are two tutorials on how to install and configure the ultimate desktop eye-candy of all time, Compiz Fusion, a combination of compiz and beryl.

Whilst some of the f…

Whilst I do not have a portable computer running Ubuntu (actually, this is a lie because I do have one but Ubuntu is running as a guest OS on Mac OS X hehehe), I do understand the frustrations of havi…

One of the complaints that I have heard about Linux is the slow start-up. I guess the way Linux displays the services that are starting upon boot up gives an impression that it is slow. Well, there is…