How To: Add a Favorite Icon, favicon, to your Typepad blog

A favicon, short for favorite icon, is a personalize icon that is displayed with the website name/favorite listing. Most professional web sites customize the favicon with their corporate logo. Here is what my News favorite folder looks like — you can see the personalized corporate logo for each favorite entry.

You can personalize [...]

Frank’s Corner – a guide to running Windows stuff on Linux

Frank has an extremely good website, dedicated to running Windows stuff (for my interest, that’s GAMES)  on Linux.
He’s got detailed howtos that are too numerous to list here, so go there!
geek out.

Frank’s Corner – a guide to running Windows stuff on Linux
Originally from ArsGeek by arsgeek

Security Concerns In Linux

Part of the reason I am switching to Linux is, from what I have been told, it is superior to Microsoft Windows in the area of security. I think the reason is at least twofold.
1. People are out to get Microsoft i.e. trojans, viruses, and spyware. Of course when considering the effects of micro-evolution, this [...]

Linux Quickies – copying a cd or dvd with a one line command

The little program that could, dd, has been around for several decades. It can do a lot of stuff but today we’re going to use it to copy a cd or dvd.
Please note that this isn’t really the best way to make a backup of your DVD collection. You can read about better [...]

Share personal video with Motionbox

Motionbox makes it easier to share video online. You have the choice when uploading to keep the videos private or broadcast them to the world. When viewing public videos, you have the option of share them, adding them to your favorites, or adding them to your playlists. A cool feature Motionbox has, is the ability [...]

Linux: Howto install truetype (freetype) and Msttcorefonts fonts

Apple Computers originally developed a Truetype font in 1980. Later in 1991 Microsoft introduced the same to Windows operating system. These fonts enhance your web browsing experience and some software such as Macromedia Flash player only works best with Truetype / FreeType fonts under Linux desktop.
Linux use fonts from the FreeType project of David [...]

5 Resources and Over 100 tips and shortcuts for Gm…

In the last 3 days I have seen what seems like 1000 different blog posts regarding Gmail tips and tricks. While it’s nowhere near 1000, I am going to do the same thing I did with Flickr search tools, I am going to consolidate to show what I believe are the best resources because [...]

10 tips to get the most out of your GMail account

Cyber-knowledge.net gives 10 useful tips to get the most out of your GMail account.
GMail based blog
Encrypt all GMail traffic
Make a GMail partition
Linux on GMail
Use GMail as notepad
GMail skins
GMail manager
GNotify
gDisk for Macintosh
GTDGmail
Read the complete article here
10 tips to get the most out of your GMail account
Originally from JohnTP's Home by John T P [...]

Ubuntu Basics – Wallpaper, Fonts and Themes

If you look up in your taskbar, the one on the top of your monitor, you’ll see Applications, Places and System. We’re going to look at System today and see a few bits of what’s in there that can be useful to us.

We’ll just touch on a few things up there, this won’t be [...]

Linux: How to change the text size or character size in runlevel 3 (text mode)

If you have large size (21?) or small size (14?) monitor, it is better to use large/small character size. But how do you setup character size in runlevel 3 under Linux?
The answer is simple, use the kernel framebuffer. It allows you to set the Linux text scree (console) to higher or lower resolution. The Linux [...]

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