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Train Your Brain & Stay Sharp With gbrainy [Linux]
In today's highly competitive world, people are constantly looking for ways to make their minds sharper in order to gain an advantage. Others may also want to keep their minds in good shape as they age. Whatever your reason may be, finding programs which can fulfill that role may sometimes be a little difficult. Linux users have nothing to worry about, however.
Add The Perfect Personal Touch With Tattoo Droid [Android 2.1+]
Remember those times where you felt so rebellious that you absolutely had to have a tattoo? Maybe you still feel that way if you didn't get one right then. Also, maybe you just want to stand out and personalize stuff around you. If you have an Android device, there are plenty of opportunities to personalize your phone. All it takes is the right tool.
Linux Mint 13 "Maya": A Very Stable Release With Long-Term Support
The "Linux release season" is starting to come to an end as the last few major distributions are coming out with their latest release, most notably Linux Mint. This time around the Linux Mint developers have released version 13, codenamed "Maya". As far as major releases go, Linux Mint 13 is a very solid update that rides on Ubuntu 12.04's LTS (long-term support) status.
A Review of MATE: Is It a True GNOME 2 Replica for Linux?
The world of Linux desktop environments has dramatically changed since then. Gnome 3 was born, Gnome 2 was essentially thrown to the side, Gnome 3 was forked to create Cinnamon, and so on. However, Gnome 2 wasn't completely thrown to the side, as it its code is now actively maintained in another project called MATE. Is it stable? Is the experience exactly as Gnome 2's? Let's find out!
How To Change Your Boot Screen In Linux
I just love turning on my Linux system to be greeted by my awesome boot screen before I arrive at my desktop without even having time for a sip of coffee. You don't feel the same way? Maybe you should change your boot screen to something you'll actually like! Since Linux is so highly customizeable, you can do exactly that with just a few instructions.
Moborobo: The Best Tool To Manage Your Android Phone From Your Computer [Windows]
Our Android devices have plenty of information on them that sometimes we'd like to transfer over to our computers so that we can manipulate that information, use it with our computer's programs, or simply save as a backup location for your phone's information. However, after all these years I've never really heard of any software that can do this.
Practice Your Foreign Language Pronunciation With Listen & Speak [Android 2.1+]
In our globalizing world, the ability to speak more than one language is one of the best things you can have. Whether your second language is English, Spanish, Chinese, German, Russian, Japanese, or anything else out there, you're more marketable when you can speak more than just your mother tongue.
5 Ideological Reasons Why You Should Try Opera
Not a lot of people have tried Opera or even heard much about Opera as the browser has always watched from far away as Internet Explorer, then Firefox, and now Google Chrome are taking the stage of Internet prominence. However, is that relatively small amount of attention deserved? Not really
3 Reasons Why You Might Want to Compile Your Own Kernel [Linux]
Linux systems are so ridiculously flexible and configurable, it's downright crazy. A huge part of why Linux is so flexible is because of its modular structure. Every single system component and program is split up into many different packages that can easily be removed, added, or replaced by something else. Absolutely no part of the operating system has an exception to that rule, including the Linux kernel itself.
Top 3 Websites To Check Whether Your Hardware Is Supported By Linux
No operating system will have support for every single piece of hardware out of the box, and it's important to know which ones have that support. There's always a driver for that piece of Windows hardware, but with Linux, you do not have that guarantee, so the overall hardware support is smaller. You can figure out, however, which pieces of hardware do have Linux support by checking hardware databases.
5 Reasons Why You Should Update the Linux Kernel
Your distro might constantly notify you to update the Linux kernel. But why should you update it when it's been running fine?
Get Improved Spelling & Grammar Corrections With Ginger [Chrome & Firefox]
Whether you like to admit it or not, we all make heavy use of our computer's spell checker. They save us from all sorts of typos and downright horrible spelling. Thankfully, more powerful software such as Microsoft Word also includes a decent grammar checker to make sure that your sentences also make sense, and aren't just spelled right. Life is great until you come to the browser.
3 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Install Lots Of Browser Extensions [Opinion]
We all love our browsers, and we all love the extensions that you can install with them. We love browser extensions because they allow us to do what we want our browser to do that it couldn't do before. But, as you install more and more extensions that you find useful, you'll soon start to encounter some consequences of doing so. Here's 3 scenarios.
If You're Still Using IE6 You Are A Problem [Opinion]
IE6 was the best of the best when it came freshly squeezed out of Microsoft's software factory. Because of that it was able to achieve the record 95% browser market share at the height of IE's reign. It could do things other browsers couldn't, and it was right there in the operating system. The user didn't have to do a thing. But that was then...
What Is The Difference Between A Good Hacker & A Bad Hacker? [Opinion]
Every now and then, we hear something in the news about hackers taking down sites, exploit a multitude of programs, or threatening to wiggle their way into high-security areas where they shouldn't belong. But, if you think about it, what actually constitutes being called a hacker? Are all hackers evil and out to get us?
PageEdit: A Real-Time WYSIWYG Page Editor [Chrome]
People who use Chrome or Firefox for web development purposes know that there are some very good tools available for each browser that make developing pages a whole lot easier. From Firefox's Firebug extension, to Chrome's built-in web development tools, developers can quickly and easily edit the code they see on a page and have the changes appear instantly, allowing them to determine what works and what doesn't.
Linux Mint Debian Edition: Your Perfect Flavor Of Linux That You'll Never Have To Reinstall
During recent years, many people have touted the ease of use that comes with Linux Mint compared to virtually all other distributions. As such, Linux Mint is now one of the most popular distributions out there, and almost as popular (or in some terms more popular) than Ubuntu. With so many users, the Mint developers have been experimenting with a version of Linux Mint based on Debian direct.
4 Reasons Why Wireless Internet Is the Future
Before the era of smartphones, we've always been used to getting our internet from good old cables, whether it be phone lines, broadband cable, or DSL. While those were pretty good options when they first came out (and they're still decent today, except dial-up), we're starting to go toward a more wireless world.
5 Ways To Make Linux Boot Faster
Linux users are quite proud of the fact that Linux is pretty darn fast when compared to other operating systems. Not only that, but Linux doesn't seem to suffer much of the same "bogging down" effect that Windows gets when you have hundreds of applications installed on the system. However, the speed addicts who use Linux always need to find new ways to make their system go even faster.
4 Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to Windows 8
In case you haven't heard yet, Windows 8 is slowly getting more and more media attention as it nears completion. Recently Windows 8 has been getting a massive amount of coverage since the release of its Consumer Preview, and it's been pretty good. Here is why I think you should upgrade to Windows 8 rather than skipping this release in favor of what will become Windows 9.