by Richard W | Mar 6, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
The root of Apache OpenOffice (AOO) go back more than 20 years. It came out of the OpenOffice.org (OOo) project, which was an open source version of StarOffice. Millions of users have used it. It was once the default productivity suite in all Linux systems, including...
by Richard W | Mar 5, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Web, Windows
Few days ago Microsoft finally released Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7. We wrote about upgrading to IE 10 here. Users quickly downloaded and upgraded to the new version without first testing whether it will work for them. Now some are having compatibility issues...
by Richard W | Mar 5, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Security, Windows
Ever wish you could turn back time and undo changes that crashed your computer or made it worse? Well, you can do just that with Windows’ System Restore feature, which is also included in Windows 8. System Restore is a Windows’ feature that lets you restore your...
by Richard W | Mar 4, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
The Linux Kernel has just been updated to a stable version 3.8.2 of the 3.8 mainline. This version is a maintenance release that fixes some issues or bugs and added enhancements in other areas. These fixes include, a validation feature (efivarfs) that performs a...
by Richard W | Mar 4, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
LibreOffice version 4.0 was released a few weeks ago, but until quite recently, it wasn’t available to be installed via its office PPA. Now you can easily install the latest LibreOffice in Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 from its default PPA. As you may remember, we wrote about...
by Richard W | Mar 3, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Regularly updating your computers with security patches and installing security programs to protect yourself are good habits to keep when using Ubuntu. To make sure your information and your computer are safe and secure, you must take these basic precautions. One area...
by Richard W | Mar 2, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
Automatically installing security updates in Ubuntu has its benefits and risks. There’s always a risk updating or installing patches without supervision, however, not installing security patches quickly leaves your systems vulnerable to malicious tools and the bad...
by Richard W | Mar 1, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
The first maintenance release of Linux Kernel 3.8 series has just been released and this brief tutorial is going to show you how to easily upgrade the current kernel in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal to 3.8.1. The release fixes some bugs including, a driver core module...
by Richard W | Mar 1, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows
VirtualBox has just been updated to version 4.2.8 for Windows, Mac and Linux systems, including Ubuntu. This maintenance release fixes many bugs, including one that crashes a guest machine with huge amount of guest RAM on VT-x hosts and another that corrupts data...
by Richard W | Feb 28, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Before developing applications for Android devices in Ubuntu, you’ll need sets of tools and packages called Android SDK and/or ADT (Android Developer Tools). These tools provide you the API libraries necessary to build, test, debug apps for Android. This brief...
