by Richard W | Jun 16, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Web, Wordpress
This is the final post of this series that will detail the final steps of my experience switching from Apache to Nginx webserver. If you don’t already know, I’ve switched to Nginx webserver from Apache to host my WordPress blog. There were no particular reasons why I...
by Richard W | Jun 13, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail
One of our readers submitted a question to us asking “what the most efficient way to manually update your Ubuntu machine?” It’s a great question and this brief blog post is going to show those who don’t already know the most efficient way to manually update...
by Richard W | Jun 11, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Web, Wordpress
So, I started this series with backing up my website’s content and database file and copying them over to a temporary Amazon Cloud server. I then rebuilt my primary server and restored the web content and database file. Part One of this series can be viewed @...
by Richard W | Jun 10, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Windows
VideoLAN, the organization behind the popular open source music player, VLC has just released the latest version of the program for Windows, Mac and Linux users. This release brings some fixes for audio decoding and encoding, small security issues and improves the...
by Richard W | Jun 7, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Wordpress
In this brief guide, I am going to show you what I did and the steps I took while switching from Apache to Nginx Web Server. This is going to be a long post, so I’m dividing it into three parts. And if you’re reading this then you probably know a thing or two about...
by Richard W | Jun 5, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail
Are you new to Ubuntu? Do you still need an introduction to Ubuntu? If so, continuing read this blog post and future posts as we cover many topics on Ubuntu that new users will find useful. Our step by step tutorials are so easy to read that we’ve received many thanks...
by Richard W | Jun 4, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web, Windows
Here’s a quick tip that shows you how to add SkyDrive to the Sent to command on the context menu in Windows Vista, 7 or 8 so you can easily and quickly put stuff into your SkyDrive online account. This only works if you already have SkyDrive desktop application...
by Richard W | Jun 1, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Security, Windows
Here are some tips that may help you secure your Microsoft Account when using Windows 8 machines to sign in. You see, there are two primary ways to sign into Windows 8 machine: one way is to sign in using your local account with your username and password that are...
by Richard W | May 30, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Windows
How many login information (usernames and passwords) can you remember? You see, some of us have created many online profiles that include usernames, passwords and hints that we need to remember so the next time we visit those websites, we should be able to sign in...
by Richard W | May 29, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail
Intel Linux Graphics Stack has just been released with support for Ubuntu 13.04. This release brings full Haswell 2D and OpenGL 3.0 support, 3D hardware accelerated video decoding and encoding and many new OpenGL extensions. The driver stack ensures users receive the...
