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...
by Richard W | Nov 11, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Security, Windows
A new version of Microsoft Security Essentials has just been released for those using Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 or 2 and Windows 7 computers. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free security program that provides real-time...
by Richard W | Nov 11, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Security, Web, Wordpress
What powers your blog? What did you do to make your blog what is it today? Well, here’s what goes into this blog (liberiangeek.net). This site may not be the best and fastest when you compare it to many similar sites. In fact I don’t consider this site to be any...
by Richard W | Nov 10, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Security, Web, Wordpress
SPAM is good, at least the one we eat. Spam by spammers is bad and is really a big problem for webmasters hosting their blogs using WordPress. So how do you protect WordPress blog from spammers? Every WordPress installation comes with a plugin that helps protect...
by Richard W | Nov 10, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web, Wordpress
Few weeks ago I was looking for a simple yet powerful WordPress plugin to automatically backup my blog to services like Google Drive, Dropbox and a few others. Well, all the plugins I tried failed in some ways. Here’s the blog post about how I manually backup my...
by Richard W | Nov 8, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web
If you logon to your AdSense account today, you’ll see that Site health missing from the publisher scorecard on the homepage. This feature was released few months ago to give AdSense publishers benchmarking information on how their site is performing relative to sites...
by Richard W | Nov 7, 2013 | How-To/Tips
Just few weeks ago, Oracle the current parent company of VirtualBox released version 4.3 product mainline. This releases introduces a new feature called Video Capture. This feature lets you capture in video frames, every moment of the guest machine from start to the...
by Richard W | Nov 7, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Windows
If you’re currently using Outlook 2013 at your home or office and wish to also add your Gmail account so you can access all your emails in one place, then you’re at the right post. This post is going to show you how to do just that. Using the popular IMAP protocol,...