by Richard W | Feb 7, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Windows
What Is Google’s IP? One of our readers asked us a question yesterday about how did we find out Google public IP address ranges in this blog post. Well, the answer is simple. We ran the nslookup command against Google DNS to get associated records for their domain’s...
by Richard W | Feb 6, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Windows
It seems like the default Start Screen (Metro) in Windows 8 and 8.1 may be with us for sometime. Microsoft may not change it for the previous Start button that was in previous versions of Windows. With the new Metro style Start Screen, many new users are having...
by Richard W | Feb 2, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Web
Firefox is the primary web browser in Ubuntu. It comes pre-installed and added to Ubuntu default software repositories which get updated with the latest version of Firefox automatically. Most people won’t worry about installing or messing with Firefox because there’s...
by Richard W | Jan 31, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Linux
This brief tutorial is going to show you how to manually install LibreOffice in Ubuntu. As you may already know, LibreOffice comes pre-installed in Ubuntu. The version that comes with Ubuntu is customized to work well in Ubuntu. It’s also integrated with core Ubuntu...
by Richard W | Jan 30, 2014 | How-To/Tips
The most popular open-source productivity suite, LibreOffice, has just been updated to version 4.2 which is the first release of the 4.2 branch of LibreOffice. This release contains exciting new features including a new flat monochrome icon theme, tight integration...
by Richard W | Jan 29, 2014 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux
A minor update for Skype was recently released for Linux systems, including Ubuntu that fixes issues with PulseAudio 3.x and 4.x audio noise, resolves crash on Ubuntu/Debian 64-bit systems due to missing libasound2-plugins:i386 and others. If you currently using Skype...
