It always good practice to have a very strong, non-dictionary-word passwords. However, most of the time, this is not the case, specially for home desktop systems. Whilst this definitely is not a good …

I just wrote about the Crunchbag.com article on how to remotely control your bittorrent downloads. Whilst I have mentioned using Azureus with web interface plug-in as my current method of accessing do…

A Crunchbag.com article on "Remote Torrent Downloads Via SSH" just hit me right on the spot. I have been looking for a way to do this for the exact same reason as stated in the article, &quo…

Last week, Apple finally released Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, to the public. One of the main features that makes it a bit attractive is Time Machine, an easy to use, user-friendly way to manage your back-…

IN this day and age when data can easily be stolen, thanks to the internet, it is often necessary to secure data by encrypting it. However, if you have multiple encrypted files, subdirectories, disk i…

Google just updated its Google Desktop for Linux a few days ago. The new version packs a few improvements over the old one such as support for new file types.

Google Desktop automatically indexes …

To those who are fond of using different fonts for their typesetting and publishing tasks, it pays to have a huge collection of fonts available. Ubuntu provides several fonts built-in but here's…

This is the first time I have seen lockergnome.com feature a video with Linux. I know that they do have a section about Linux but this one is different. Maybe I have missed it before but hey, just lik…

For those of you who are more than 30 years old, I am sure that you can still remember the old DOS. Anyway, there are still plenty of freeware or abandonware DOS applications out there that are functi…

This comes in rather in a more opportune time when I received two printers in the office. Unfortunately, these printers, one from Kyocera and another from some other less-known name brands, are not as…