How To Disable The Guest Session In Ubuntu 12.04
If you’re anything like me then you probably have your own machine that you use on a day to day basis that no one else will ever really use. Therefore you may not want to have the Guest Session ... »
Gnome ‘App Centre’ On It’s Way
Anyone who uses Gnome 3 or has any kind of vested interested in the Open Source community will know that the Gnome 3.6 update is well under way. The new version will bring a host of new features and ... »
How Much Do We Rely On ‘The Cloud’?
I was recently having a conversation with a work colleague about cloud storage, he uses Dropbox and I use Ubuntu One. We were discussing the differences between the two services and also the advantage... »
Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.2 Released
The newest version of the brilliant Ubuntu Tweak has been released. For those of you that don’t know, Ubuntu Tweak is an extremely powerful system utility that can be used to change many things ... »
Google Tablet On It’s Way
Today in the internet blogosphere, an Asus employee ‘let slip’ that they were in the process of making an official Google Nexus Tablet. According to this employee, the tablet will make an ... »
Speed Up Ubuntu With Preload
What is Preload? This is what most of you might be asking. Well my fellow Ubuntuers, Preload is an ‘Adaptive readahead daemon’. In English this basically means that Preloaded sits in the b... »
How To Correctly Partition Ubuntu
Following on from my recent article about Linux File System defragmentation, people have asked me how to correctly partition their machines to run Ubuntu. In particular, to do things like dual boot wi... »
Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 1 Released
It’s seems not so long ago that we were all celebrating the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but straight away the Ubuntu development team begun work on the next release -Ubuntu 12.10 ‘Quantal... »
How To Secure Your Online Passwords
I’m sure most of you have heard about the professional networking site, LinkedIn being hacked today were over 6,000,000 passwords have been taken…apparently. Now, first of all, it’s ... »