If you are a web junkie, or depend upon various web sites and services daily you know how quickly your browser can fill up with tabs. Wouldn’t it be nice if you can just use small web apps for these needs? And since that seems to be the way the computing is evolving, it only [...]

VirtualBox is an operating system virtualization program that allows you, the end user, to do an incredible number of things that you couldn’t otherwise do in any other way than in a live environment.  But not everyone has more than one machine laying around with an OS installed on it, and not everyone wants to [...]

OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 was released a few days ago, bringing many bug fixes to the stable 3.1 series. One of the ways to get it on Jaunty is to use the Launchpad.net PPA for OpenOffice.org Scribblers which recently packaged it for Ubuntu Jaunty and included it in their repositories. To install the latest release using command-line, [...]

This tutorial shows how you can add a splash image to your GRUB 2 boot loader on Ubuntu 9.04. Please note that you should use this tutorial only if you have upgraded your bootloader to GRUB 2 previously, as shown in this tutorial: How To Install GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04 I do not issue [...]

This tutorial shows how you can upgrade your GRUB bootloader to GRUB 2 on Ubuntu 9.04. GRUB 2 has been rewritten from scratch to clean up everything for modularity and portability. GRUB 2 targets at the following goals: Scripting support, such as conditionals, loops, variables and functions. Graphical interface. Dynamic loading of modules in order [...]