I am a Linux researcher and technical writer. My job involves taking a lot of screenshots every day. I use Ubuntu (14.04 and 16.04), and for screenshots, I use the gnome-screenshot tool - the tool works both from the command line as well as through the PrintScrn key on the keyboard. The only thing about ... Read more
There are situations where-in you need your machine's IP address (whether public or internal) for some work, and such situations occur quite frequently when you are a network admin, or work in the computer networking domain. While knowing IP address in Ubuntu is just a matter of launching a terminal and firing a command, you ... Read more
Suppose you are exploring some directories through Ubuntu's default Nautilus file browser when suddenly there arises a requirement to work in a particular directory on the command line. What would you do in this case? Well, normally, you would open the terminal application, and then manually change the present working directory to the directory you ... Read more
Have you ever noticed that whenever an application is launched, its GUI window has a default size and position on your desktop? Ever felt the urge to tweak these values so that the window size and position suits your needs? If that's what you are looking for, you've come to the right place, as in ... Read more
Slowly but steadily, animated GIFs have become a kind of standard for Internet-based communications. As you'd have probably seen, people use GIFs mostly to express their emotions as well as to add humor to their responses when communicating with each other. While there's no doubt that's a popular use of GIFs, the image format is ... Read more
If you are a Linux user, and are looking for a way that takes complete care of downloading/installing dependencies for .deb packages, you'll be glad to know that there exists a tool - dubbed GDebi - which lets you do just that. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to use the tool, both through ... Read more
Looking for a cool screensaver for your Ubuntu system? One that also serves some purpose - not just those beautiful scenery types? How about one that shows current time? Specifically, I am talking about the flip clock screensaver shown below: Interested in installing and setting it up on your Ubuntu box? Here's how you can ... Read more
The majority of graphical environments let you choose to remember the passwords you enter somewhere to ease access to something but they usually don't tell you how to delete them again. Most Linux desktop distributions have a tool installed where all your saved passwords for network drives are stored in that is called Passwords and ... Read more
FFmpeg has been removed from Ubuntu 14.04 and was replaced by Libav. This decision has been reversed so that FFmpeg is available now in Ubuntu 15.04 again, but there is still no official package for 14.04. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install FFmpeg from mc3man ppa. Add the mc3man ppa: sudo ... Read more
The SCP command line is commonly used to copy files over SSH, and between popular Operating systems like Linux, Mac and Windows in a secure fashion. SCP is used to copy files to/from a remote server. It also allows you to copy files from one remote server to another remote server, without passing traffic through your PC.