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Secretly capture screen activity while away from your Mac?
That’s very curious that you aren’t allowed to set up any privacy on your computer at work. My guess is that it’s to ensure that everything’s open and available at all times, but since others can get...
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How Can I Extract MP3 Audio from a Movie File?
There’s a terrific command line tool that can easily do what you ask, but even better, it works on Linux, Windows and MacOS X systems. The program? FFmpeg. You can grab a copy for free off the FFmpeg...
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How Do I Get Rid of Amazon from Ubuntu Launcher?
Windows has its TaskBar. MacOS X has its Dock. And Ubuntu Linux? It’s got the Launcher that (by default) is on the left side of the main window. They all serve the same basic purpose, offering a place...
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Replace Firefox with Google Chrome in Ubuntu Linux?
While completely eradicating Firefox from your Ubuntu Linux installation is rather a bit of overkill – there’s not much reason to just delete the default Web browser, and it’d probably resurface after...
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How to Change my Ubuntu Linux Account Password?
Frequently changing your account password is such a good idea that you’d think it would be super easy to accomplish on any operating system, whether it’s Android or Windows, Mac or Linux. But most make...
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Check for OS Updates in Ubuntu Linux?
Unlike many modern operating systems, Ubuntu Linux seems to keep it pretty quiet if there’s an OS update, so there are a lot of different major and minor versions of the system out in the wild. Part of...
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How to Configure VMware Fusion for Linux Usage?
Your professor sounds like a bright spark to have you all set up a full Linux install within the flexible VMware Fusion environment. In full screen mode, it’s really just like booting up into Ubuntu...
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Change Desktop Wallpaper on Ubuntu Linux System?
Welcome to the world of Linux! You gain vast power and flexibility, but at the cost of a bit of complexity and a lot of versions floating around. After this many years of Linux development, however,...
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How to Add Profile Photo to Ubuntu Linux Account?
There are a lot of different ways you can associate a photograph, icon or other image to your account in Ubuntu Linux, as with just about every other modern Linux system that has a graphical user...
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Secretly capture screen activity while away from your Mac?
That’s very curious that you aren’t allowed to set up any privacy on your computer at work. My guess is that it’s to ensure that everything’s open and available at all times, but since others can get...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Can I Extract MP3 Audio from a Movie File?
There’s a terrific command line tool that can easily do what you ask, but even better, it works on Linux, Windows and MacOS X systems. The program? FFmpeg. You can grab a copy for free off the FFmpeg...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Do I Get Rid of Amazon from Ubuntu Launcher?
Windows has its TaskBar. MacOS X has its Dock. And Ubuntu Linux? It’s got the Launcher that (by default) is on the left side of the main window. They all serve the same basic purpose, offering a place...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Replace Firefox with Google Chrome in Ubuntu Linux?
While completely eradicating Firefox from your Ubuntu Linux installation is rather a bit of overkill – there’s not much reason to just delete the default Web browser, and it’d probably resurface after...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Change my Ubuntu Linux Account Password?
Frequently changing your account password is such a good idea that you’d think it would be super easy to accomplish on any operating system, whether it’s Android or Windows, Mac or Linux. But most make...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Check for OS Updates in Ubuntu Linux?
Unlike many modern operating systems, Ubuntu Linux seems to keep it pretty quiet if there’s an OS update, so there are a lot of different major and minor versions of the system out in the wild. Part of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Configure VMware Fusion for Linux Usage?
Your professor sounds like a bright spark to have you all set up a full Linux install within the flexible VMware Fusion environment. In full screen mode, it’s really just like booting up into Ubuntu...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Change Desktop Wallpaper on Ubuntu Linux System?
Welcome to the world of Linux! You gain vast power and flexibility, but at the cost of a bit of complexity and a lot of versions floating around. After this many years of Linux development, however,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Add Profile Photo to Ubuntu Linux Account?
There are a lot of different ways you can associate a photograph, icon or other image to your account in Ubuntu Linux, as with just about every other modern Linux system that has a graphical user...
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Get Started Building Spreadsheets with LibreOffice Calc on Linux?
First off, a confession: I have an MBA so it turns out that I really love working on spreadsheets. In fact, I used to get extra credit for my over-the-top spreadsheet designs when I was in business...
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Access Copy/Paste from the MacOS X Command Line?
While you may think that the Mac system, with its highly polished graphical interface, would be the last place to find a sophisticated command line interface, you’d be wrong! No, it’s not 1999 all over...
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