by Richard W | Nov 15, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows
If you’ve been following this blog, then you probably know a thing or two about VirtualBox. That’s because we’ve written a lot about it. If you don’t know what VirtualBox is, then let me give you a brief summary. VirtualBox is a virtualization software that lets you...
by Richard W | Nov 14, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web
In my previous blog post, I mentioned that I switched to Nginx web service from Apache to speed things up a bit. For some unknown reasons, I couldn’t get Apache for handle traffic to this blog without crashing daily. So I switched to Nginx web server and signed up for...
by Richard W | Nov 13, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web
Few days ago we showed you how to configure Gmail account in Microsoft Outlook to send and receive emails. Using the same IMAP protocol, you can also setup Yahoo Mail as well as Microsoft Outlook Online. Setting up all your online email accounts locally allows you to...
by Richard W | Nov 13, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
As you may already know, Ubuntu comes with its own email client called Thunderbird that allows you to setup email accounts to send and receive emails. It also support IMAP protocol which services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Outlook support. Thunderbird is a...
by Richard W | Nov 12, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Here’s another question new users to Ubuntu asked the most. The answer to the question is simple but when you’re new to anything, it takes time to fully understand it. Here’s the question we received few days ago; How to change samba workgroup name and computer name...
by Richard W | Nov 11, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
HP Linux Imaging and Printer (HPLIP) driver for Linux systems, including Ubuntu has just been updated to version 3.13.11 and this brief tutorial is going to show you how to install or upgrade in Ubuntu. This driver package is maintained by a project sponsored by HP to...
