Are You Using Facebook with an Encrypted Session Yet?

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February 10, 2011 · 1 min · 5 words · Angela Martinez

Here’s a Super Simple Trick to Defeating Fake Anti-Virus Malware

Not sure what we’re talking about? Be sure to check out our previous articles on cleaning up fake antivirus infections. So what’s the problem? Can’t you just run a anti-virus scan? Well… it’s not quite that simple. So just rename your favorite anti-malware program to explorer.exe, and you should be able to use it. Thanks to reader Jeffrey for writing in with this tip. Here’s the quick steps: These steps generally work....

February 10, 2011 · 1 min · 103 words · Ashley Wallace

This Week in Geek History: Gmail Goes Public, Deep Blue Wins at Chess, and the Birth of Thomas Edison

Quick Links Every week we bring you a snapshot of the week in Geek History. Only in the last year or so have major overhauls at competitors like Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail brought other services up to speed. Cant stand reading a Week in Geek History entry without a random fact? No,were not kidding. After the win Deep Blue was retired and disassembled. Parts of Deep Blue are housed in the National Museum of History and the Computer History Museum....

February 10, 2011 · 1 min · 94 words · Jessica Smith

How to Save Tweet Links for Later Reading from Your Desktop and Phone

Today we’ll show you how to read these links later from your desktop and phone. Unfortunately, when you follow too many chatty people on Twitter, the noise can be overwhelming. Thanks to Instapaper, we have been saving important tweet links for later reading anytime, anywhere. WithInstaright– a Firefox extension for Instapaper – saving links to Instapaper from Firefox has never been easier. Instafetch brings the convenience and simplicity of Instapaper onto Android....

February 8, 2011 · 1 min · 213 words · Tara Gentry

The How-To Geek Valentine’s Day Gift Guide

Read on to check out the geektacular pickings we mined the internet to unearth. Wallpaper available for downloadhere. Includes guides to surviving and loving Comic Con and more. Price: $10 Geeks love for the quirky stick figure comic strip xkcd is strong. Book includes hi-res images and subtle inclusion of the alt-text from the original comics. Price: $13 Geek Culture Energy Drinks Pink Domo Figure Energy drinks packaged as health potions?...

February 8, 2011 · 2 min · 262 words · Mark Sanchez

How to Manage and Use LVM (Logical Volume Management) in Ubuntu

As stated before, LVM is a abstraction layer between your operating system and physical hard drives. Most of the commands in LVM are very similar to each other. The command will format the information so it’s easier to understand than the command. The most important information will be the PV name and VG name. With those two pieces of information we can continue working on the LVM setup. Creating a Logical Volume Logical volumes are the partitions that your operating system uses in LVM....

February 7, 2011 · 3 min · 526 words · Michael Yates

Inspire Geek Love with These Hilarious Geek Valentines

Quick Links Want to send some Geek Love to that special someone? This is fairly low resolution for print, but makes a great graphic to email. Press to pick the text tool. If they do mind, find yourself somegreat Creative Commons images. to do a free transform on your image, sizing it to whatever dimensions work best for your design. Right click your newly added image layer in your panel and Choose Blending Effects to pick a Layer Style....

February 7, 2011 · 1 min · 187 words · Tina Petty

How to Turn Your Home Ubuntu PC Into a LAMP Web Server

Quick Links Got a Linux PC you want to put to work? Maybe you’re not comfortable with the command-line only version of Ubuntu Server Edition. Here’s how to keep the standard Ubuntu desktop and add web-serving capabilities to it. Just sit back and let it do its thing until you get a blue screen pop up. You’ll be prompted to re-key in your password, so do that and hit Enter again....

February 4, 2011 · 2 min · 361 words · Todd James

Create Your Own Quick Calculator Function for the Terminal

This is a simple method for creating a calculator using the built-in function support in the Bash shell. and then the math equation you want solved. Since this is using the bc command, its pretty powerful. Close out the Terminal, re-open it, and you should have the function available.

February 3, 2011 · 1 min · 49 words · Alison Manning

This Week in Geek History: The Call of Cthulhu, the Columbia Shuttle Disaster, and the Birth of Facebook

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February 3, 2011 · 1 min · 5 words · Samantha Hernandez

How to Archive, Search, and View Your Tweet Statistics with ThinkUp

Quick Links Worried about archiving your tweets? Want a more powerful search? Want to see your tweet statistics? so that you could search through them and find out some helpful usage statistics. It has quite a few plugins, including one that adds full Facebook support, too. Its in very active development by the founder, Gina Trapani, and by many users in the community. Youll need a personal MySQL user account already set up, too....

February 2, 2011 · 3 min · 483 words · Patricia Smith

RGB? CMYK? Alpha? What Are Image Channels and What Do They Mean?

Quick Links They’re there, lurking in your image files. But have you ever wondered what are image channels are? And what do they have to do with RGB and CMYK? Here’s the answer. The channels panel in Photoshop is one of the most disused and misunderstood parts of the program. But images have color channels with or without Photoshop. Let’s briefly look at both of these, and contrast the two of them....

February 2, 2011 · 2 min · 246 words · Jacob Howe

How to Recover that Photo, Picture or File You Deleted Accidentally

Luckily theres another way to recover deleted files. So far, everybody has reported success! toolbar that nobody wants. Since I deleted mine from my camera’s SD card, that’s where I’m looking for it. The next page will ask you whether you want to do a Deep Scan. you’re free to always go back and run a deep scan a second time. Looks like what happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas after all…...

February 1, 2011 · 1 min · 138 words · Mr. Mark King