by Richard W | Jul 22, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security, Windows
Here’s a brief tutorial that will show you how to password-protect your documents when using LibreOffice. Remember LibreOffice works in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems, including Ubuntu. When you password-protect a document, anyone without the correct password...
by Richard W | Jul 19, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows
After more than 16 months of development and about 10,000 individual changes, Wine, the software that lets you run programs designed for Windows in Linux systems has just released version 1.6 and this brief tutorial is going to show you how to upgrade or install it in...
by Richard W | Jul 18, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
I won’t be the first to tell you this; Ubuntu isn’t perfect. In fact, the Linux Kernel that powers Ubuntu isn’t fully compatible with most hardware out there because those devices were designed with Windows OS in mind. The reason you see so many kernel updates when...
by Richard W | Jul 16, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Security, Windows
BitLocker Drive Encryption helps you protect your files on an entire drive. It will deny access to hackers and anyone who steals your computer and tries to access your information without authorization. It is a cool technology and it comes with Windows 8 and 8.1 Pro...
by Richard W | Jul 15, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
One of our readers asked the following question few days ago and here’s a response to it. The question was “Where Do I Put My Files in Ubuntu”. It seems like the reader maybe from the Windows’ world where you have local disk C, D and so on. In Ubuntu and other Linux...
by Richard W | Jul 12, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web
Recently we showed you how to add the new AdSense asynchronous script to your blog or website to help speed it up. As you may already know, the more external scripts you add to your web pages the slower they become, and synchronous scripts are the worst offender....
by Richard W | Jul 11, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Windows
If you want to automatically sign into Windows 8 without always typing your password, this brief guide is going to show you how. One of our readers asked me few days ago about this. She wanted to know if it was possible to automatically sign in to Windows without...
by Richard W | Jul 9, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Windows
This article applies to Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8. It is going to show you how to easily perform disk error checking or scan disk to check your hard drive for errors if you think there’s a problem with it. The reason I’m writing this is because one of our...
by Richard W | Jul 5, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Windows
VirtualBox, the popular virtualization software that lets you run multiple virtual guest machines (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) on a single host machine (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) has been updated to version 4.2.16 and this brief guide is going to show you how mine...
by Richard W | Jul 3, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail
One of our readers commented this statement few days ago, and I tend to agree with him/her to a point. The commenter posted ‘adding program shortcuts to the desktop in Ubuntu sucks’. Do you agree or not? All I will say is it sucks sometimes for new users. Other...
