GIMP is an alternative to Adobe Photoshop and similar software that allows you to perform the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation techniques. Whether you’re editing a photo or creating complex image manipulation like layering and more, GIMP can help you create the best experience. There are many ways to install GIMP on Ubuntu, then we’ll show you the steps below to get that done on Ubuntu Linux....
Gradle also works with many of the popular IDE platforms available today, including, Android Studio, Eclipse, IDEA, and NetBeans. For more about Gradle, please visit its homepage. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install Gradle Build Tool on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 and 18.10 systems. To get started installing Gradle on Ubuntu systems, follow the steps below: Install Java JDK Gradle needs Java JDK installed on Ubuntu....
If you are looking for a solution to edit your website live and with ease and don’t want to fiddle with SQL, then GuppY is a great place to start. It comes with an easy plugin system, widget support, and easy backup because there’s only one directory. This CMS platform is designed for ease of use to allow webmasters to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with users across multiple devices, including mobile....
LibreOffice is a successor to OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice) on most Linux distributions. LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice over a decade ago. It is now the supreme open-source office productivity tool available for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. LibreOffice comes with several applications including, Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and flowcharts), Base (databases), and Math (formula editing). By default, if you install the full desktop version of Ubuntu, LibreOffice will come along....
We’re now ready to install ownCloud to help us build our first dynamic, efficient and innovative cloud storage service and begin managing our files and content everywhere. ownCloud is an open-source, self-hosted file sync and file-sharing platform similar to Dropbox, OneDrive, and other proprietary online storage services. Written in PHP, it comes with all the features you need to create your cloud and sync services and can be paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database....
Python, a versatile and popular general-purpose programming language can easily be installed on Ubuntu via multiple methods. Whether you’re building an advanced program or creating a simple task in Python, you’ll need Python installed to use it. With Python, you can do almost anything like writing simple or advanced scripts, building and programming robots, complicated machinery, developing websites, and many more. Python also lets you work quickly and integrates systems more efficiently....
Using SpinaCMS to edit your content on the web should be easy and fun. No need for learning templating and HTML. Spina hides most of that stuff and focuses on what matters most. SpinaCMS offers features that may not be available to other PHP-based CMS, like WordPress Joomla, or Drupal… All you do is write your content and it’s instantly published. Other features like permalinks, categories, pages, posts, and custom layouts are all top content and SEO friendly… For more about SpinaCMS, check its homepage....
For one, it doesn’t need a database server, call it database-less CMS. It also provides native markdown WYSIWYG support, SEO friendly, flexible CSS framework with no installation required. For more about WonderCMS, please check its homepage. This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install WonderCMS on Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.10 / 18.04 LTS with Apache2 and PHP 7.2 support. When you’re ready to get WonderCMS working, continue with the steps below:...
In this article, we’ll explain how to make a post shareable on Facebook. What Are the Facebook Privacy Settings? You must choose a privacy setting whenever you post something to your Facebook profile. These sharing settings will determine who can view and share your posts. The privacy options are as follows: If you see a post in your newsfeed, but the share button isn’t visible, or you’re unable to share posts with your friends, it means the author of the post has made it private (or it’s in a private Facebook group)....
If you ever wanted to get NFS enabled in a Windows environment, then the steps below are a great place to start. It shows you how to connect Windows to NFS shares hosted on Ubuntu Linux. NFS or Network File System is a distributed file system that can be enabled in a client/server environment. NFS is very easy to configure for those wanting to allow NFS client machines to access NFS mount points on a server using NFS protocol....
To protect your PDFs, lock them up with a password. It’s doable. It’s also easy and free! Don’t worry if you haven’t done it before. As long as you can follow basic instructions, you’re going to be fine. In this post, we’ll walk through the steps on how to password protect PDF files. This way, you can keep them safe. Using Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat can make it happen for you....
Thankfully, like Google Docs, Word can and will autosave your documents, even if you haven’t saved it yourself. Word will also try to help you recover changes to a file or recover corrupted documents. If you’re struggling, here are some of the steps you can follow to recover a Word document before you lose it entirely. Using Word’s Document Recovery Features If Word crashes without saving your document, don’t panic!...
These pop-ups won’t go away on their own. In fact, serious malware software will change your default homepage and search engine on Chrome. To avoid these things, you should watch out for things that look too good to be true. Winning a sweepstake or seeing expensive items for free is sometimes a trick to get you to download malware. Reset Chrome To remove unwanted programs and pop-ups from Windows, open Chrome on your computer and follow the steps below: At the top right, click More Settings....
All users’ content in their home directories will be accessed and read by all. In some environments, this may not be a great way to manage users’ home directories. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to make sure all users created on a Linux system are created ensuring that their home directories are protected. Every time you run the adduser command, the defaults for the user are drawn from the /etc/adduser....
When you share the Public folder, users that are directly connected to your local network will be able to browse and access it. While sharing it, you can also choose to share so that guests (people without a user account ) can also access it. To share with Windows systems, Samba must be installed. Samba is an open-source implementation of the SMB/CIFS network file-sharing protocol that allows users to access files, printers, and other shared resources....
If you’re having a hard time finding the mouse pointer on your screen, you may want to try this trick. Ubuntu Linux comes with a standard mouse pointer size and color, which is small and black. The default small size usually isn’t helpful especially for people with poor vision. With the use of wide screens and higher resolutions, it can be difficult to spot the mouse pointer across bigger areas of the screen or even double screens....
This will work fine if you use the same browser on all your devices. However, most people don’t. Firefox and Opera users, for example, want to view their favorite sites on multiple browsers and so want to be able to sync bookmarks on browsers across systems. You can manually import or export bookmarks between browsers. However, this is time-consuming, inefficient, and needs constant updating. This article will outline several solutions to sync bookmarks and data in Windows when using Firefox and Opera....
With this feature enabled, Windows prioritizes your gaming experience by preventing Windows Update from updating systems drivers and sending restart notifications. Windows also try to achieve a more stable frame rate depending on the specific game and system. On some systems, this can cause performance issues, especially when Windows wrongly detect an application it thinks it’s a game in progress. It then reconfigures the system optimized for gaming when a game is not being played....
By default, always-on (Real-time protection) is enabled and turned on in Windows 11. When enabled, the always-on feature monitors events such as file processes, file and registry changes, and other events on your devices for suspicious and known malicious activity. Microsoft Defender’s Real-time antivirus protection will also scan downloaded files and attachments automatically. Disabling real-time protection drastically reduces the protection on your endpoints and is not recommended. If you turn off Real-time protection, you will see a red alert in the Windows Security app under Real-time protection alerting you to re-enable always-on protection to keep your device secure....
When you enable a battery saver, Windows will turn off some features, dim your screen brightness, reduce background activity, and limit most system notifications. By default, the battery saver turns on automatically when your battery reaches 20% power or less and automatically turns off when the computer is connected to a power source. While using a battery saver, the Display brightness is also automatically reduced to 30% by default. All these measures are there to prolong your Windows device’s battery life while in battery saver mode....
