Quick Links Deja Dup is a simple – yet powerful – backup tool included with Ubuntu. It offers the power of rsync with incremental backups, encryption, scheduling, and support for remote services. Its a graphical frontend to Duplicity, which itself usesrsync. It offers the power of rsync with a simple interface. Youll find it named Backup in the System group of icons. you could also launch it by searching for Backup from the Dash....

Now switch over to the programs tab. Now change the Choose how you open links option to Always in Internet Explorer on the desktop. Hit the apply button and you’re good to go. That’s all there is to it.

Today’s graphics idea was requested by a reader that wanted to do something about those blurry images. Keep reading to see our solution! Feel free to follow along, although your menus and shortcuts may be different than we use here. Duplicate a copy of your photo background layer. Navigate to Image > Mode > Lab Color and select it. Then select only the “Lightness” channel. Your image should jump to a grayscale—that’s normal....

How-To Geek goes into how to setup a syslog collector. Overview Syslog is used on a variety of server/devices to give system information to the system administrator. Out it’sWiki entry: Syslogis a standard for computer data logging. Setup the Syslog sender As stated above, we will use DD-WRT for this example. With that said, remote Syslog-ing is a capability supported by most self respecting devices/OSs. Consult the documentation as to how to set it up....

The Metro-style Start screen is your new Start menu. Entering the Start Screen Windows 8 uses hot corners. Click at the bottom-left corner to pull up the Start screen. Move your cursor away and it may vanish. One catch is that the hot corner doesn’t move with your taskbar. We also have alist of new Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts. The Power User Menu Right-smack the hot corner and youll see a menu with various administrative options....

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This post lists the classic, traditional commands, as well as some more useful, modern ones. Other programs, like htop, provide a friendly interface on top of the commands. Top displays a list of processes, with the ones using the most CPU at the top. To exit top or htop, use theCtrl-Ckeyboard shortcut. This keyboard shortcut usually kills the currently running process in the terminal. htop Thehtopcommand is an improved top....

Making the new computer accept your iOS equipment can be difficult, but certainly not impossible. We dont intend to leave anything behind, but failure is always an option. Proceed with caution at all times. Of course, you wouldnt want to do that. For iOS, things are a little different. Theres much more content that has to be backed up before you proceed. Speaking of backup, Apple has introduced a new feature for backups, and its called iCloud....

However, now, you must install extra packages and then run a special command to create a shortcut. We will show you how to set up the required packages and how to create a shortcut. To begin installing the required packages, press Ctrl + Alt + T to open a Terminal window. jot down the following command at the prompt and press Enter. NOTE: ensure to enter two dashes before no in the above command....

Today, we’re learning about the history of photography, and how hard it really was. There’s a long history of technological advancements in photography. Is there merit to this argument? Let’s take a look today, and find out some surprising, very interesting answers. It was almost instantly panned by the users theretoo blurry, or too grainy. Bitumen reacts to light by hardening, with a positive image created by a solvent bath....

Prior to version 11.10, you could use several methods to restore the original button arrangement. To install Mwbuttons,download the Debian/Ubuntu DEB ALL file, not the tar.gz file. The Ubuntu Software Center opens and the mwbuttons screen displays. To install software, you must authenticate. key in your password in the Password edit box on the Authenticate dialog box and click Authenticate. The progress of the installation displays where the Install button was....

Well, thanks to virtualization technology, you could easily install one operating system inside another on one machine. VMware Player is a free program that allows you to create and run virtual machines. It is a free program from Oracle that allows you to create multiple virtual machines running different operating systems. Microsoft Windows Virtual PC Virtual PC is Microsoft’s virtualization software. It is also free, like VirtualBox. Hyper-V Microsoft’s Hyper-V is the successor to Virtual PC....

Quick Links JPG distortion, tiling, and artifacts can ruin an otherwise great image. GIMP users, follow along, as this Photoshop howto is GIMP friendly. Keep reading to see how it’s possible for you to finally restore your images! Fixing JPG Artifacts With Photoshop JPG is a pretty amazing format, all things considered. But the lossy nature of the filetype can be an ugly mess. Lets take a closer look at this image....