Basics of Computer and Information Technology

This video is a short beginners guide to installing Ubuntu by Nixie Pixel, who you will see is far from the stereotypical computer geek. Thi...

It has been some time since I last posted on this blog. In that time there have been a number of major new software releases. These include ...

Back in February I posted a list of Linux web browsers . I mentioned that a stable version of Chromium (the open-source basis for Google Ch...

In order to create a launcher for a particular OpenOffice application, or if you wish to run one from a terminal in Linux , you will need t...

I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04, and found that pressing backspace no longer takes me to the previous page in Firefox. Thankfully, there i...

Having switched to Linux a while ago, I finally have settled on a variety of Internet applications that do what I want. I listed a variety ...

In response to my last post listing Linux applications , I received a couple of comments asking whether there are any applications like iTun...

As I mentioned in a recent post , I have recently switched to a Linux distribution as my operating system of choice. Many other users may b...

For years I have had a love/hate relationship with Windows in its various incarnations, which has led me to flirt with a number of Linux dis...