Whilst we have featured quite a number of backup utilities for Linux, here is another one that may just prove to be a solution that works on almost all popular platform. Areca, is a personal backup …

The benefits of having a Mac is its support for the subscription-based .Mac services, of which synchronization between computers is one of its features. Whilst there are tools available on Linux and…

Skype may seem to be the de-facto standard in internet telephony (yeah, I know a lot will argue that it is not but which one seem to have the bigger share?) and I must admit that I have hooked on Sk…

If you are like me, an educator, then you know what I am talking about when faced with students learning computer skills in the classroom. There are times when you'd want to check if the student…

If you are the type who manages multiple linux computers in a laboratory, then you are familiar with HDD cloning. In my days as admin, I used to use Norton Ghost to do this with the Partition Image a…

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Well, not if you are using ext3! Whilst everyone is expected (yes, now I expect everyone to have back-ups of their data after featuring several back-up utilities already) to have backed…

I have featured back-up utilities that try to mimic the ease of use of the Mac's Time Machine. This time, I am giving you yet another Time Machine clone called BackerUpper, "a simple program…

Whilst it is true that apt-get and Synaptic (or insert your favorite package manager here) make it easy to install and upgrade applications. However, uninstalling is still quite tricky specially if t…

We all know that files, specially from digital cameras, are named in a specific format that have no information whatsoever about its contents. There are other files that behave the same way, i.e., no…

Not too long ago, I wrote about Gnome Launch Box, a Quicksilver-like app on the Mac OS X, for Linux.

Whilst Gnome Launch Box is promising, the new Gnome DO seems to have improved on the features b…