New: BTGuard Anonymizing Service: Is it worth it?
By Jonathan DePrizio

BTGuard is a paid proxy service intended for bittorrent users. For $6.95 a month you can use BTGuard to hide your IP address from other downloaders and bypass any traffic shaping your ISP performs to limit your bittorrent usage. I've given this service a try, with mixed results. Click Here to Read More

New: Drastically Speed up your Linux System with Preload
By Jonathan DePrizio

This guide will explain howto install and use Preload, an adaptive readahead daemon that runs in the background of your system, and caches applications that you use frequently. Click Here to Learn How

New: Manage your Movie Collection with Griffith
By Jonathan DePrizio

Griffith is an application for the Gnome desktop that organizes your movie collection. Simply by entering the name of a movie, Griffith will query various databases on the internet and download cover art, plot details, and cast information. Read the Full Review

New: A Sneak Preview of Picasa 2.7 for Linux
By Jonathan DePrizio

Google's Picasa software is a powerful tool for managing your photo collection. It provides a simple interface for organizing your pictures, as well as some easy-to-use, yet powerful image manipulation tools. However, until recently the Windows version of Picasa has had some features that put it above the Linux version; some of these features, like Picasa Web Album integration, are at the core of the program, without which Picasa isn't very useful. With its newest release, the Linux version is being brought up to par with its Windows counterpart. Read the Full Review

New: Explore the Universe from your Desktop with Celestia
By Jonathan DePrizio

While it may not let you go where no man has gone before, Celestia is an amazing desktop application that lets you travel anywhere in the known Universe. You can view any object in the Solar System, travel to distant stars, and even leave the Galaxy to view planets only recently discovered by NASA and global space agencies. Read the Full Review

New: Howto: Configure the Update Manager in Ubuntu Linux
By Jonathan DePrizio

This guide will explain howto control how often the update manager runs, or howto set the update manager in Ubuntu to automatically install updates. Click Here to Learn How

New: 10 Steps to Convert a Linux User to Windows
By Jonathan DePrizio

With Linux becoming more popular and easier to use, more and more people are adopting it as their primary operating system. But the transformation from Windows user to Linux user can be a tough road to take. Most new users become long-term users because they have friends that introduce Linux to them, and help them through the first few weeks of rough-patches. Here are ten steps to help you introduce Linux to a would-be convert.

New: Howto: Add items to the Right-Click Menu in Nautilus
By Jonathan DePrizio

Linux is known for letting users configure settings to customize nearly every aspect of their desktops. In the past, this has largely been relegated to the more advanced crowd, since it often required editing text-based configuration files; but as Linux becomes more mature, many GUI programs are being written to allow easy customization of the user interface. The Nautilus Actions Configuration utility is one such program that lets you add custom commands to the right-click menu in Nautilus, the default file manager in Gnome. Click Here to Learn How

New: Howto: Setup a Software Firewall in Linux using Firestarter
By Jonathan DePrizio

One of the great features included in Linux is the IPtables firewall. Unfortunately, its command-line use is rather complex, and it can be intimidating for even experienced Linux users to configure it. Firestarter is a friendly graphical interface that allows you to configure a software firewall in Linux using the built-in IPtables/IPchains utilities. Click Here to Learn How

New: Fluxbuntu: User-friendly Featherweight Linux?
By Jonathan DePrizio

Fluxbuntu's aim is to be a "lightweight, productive, agile, and efficient" operating system that runs quickly on older hardware. This review takes a look at Fluxbuntu, its limitations, and whether it lives up to the challenge of creating a user-friendly experience on a tight resources budget.

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New: Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices
By Jonathan DePrizio

This article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source x86 emulator Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels Workstation.

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New: Howto: Delete Files Permanently and Securely in Linux
By Jonathan DePrizio

We all know that when you simply delete a file, it's possible to recover it later. Sometimes this is useful, if you accidentally delete something important; but sometimes this is a problem, and you really want that file gone forever. This howto will explain how to delete a file in linux securely and permanently, so it can never be recovered.

New: Hardy Heron Alpha4: A Glimpse into the Future of Ubuntu
By Jonathan DePrizio

This is a look at the fourth Alpha release of Hardy; including many of the applications that are now included by default and other major changes. Among these are the addition of Firefox 3 and Remote Desktop on the applications side, and a new method for systems control known as Policy Kit, which allows admins to unlock system functions for users.

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