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Encrypting everything online including your emails has become necessary. Your confidential information such as login credentials, social security numbers, and bank account details becomes vulnerable when you sent them through emails. Email encryption involves masking the content to the email message to prevent them from being read by unauthorized persons. Sending encrypted emails in Linux … Read more
Installing the Conky system monitor on your Ubuntu is pretty simple. The real deal is to make the application more useful by customizing it according to your needs. This can be done through the graphical front-end for managing Conky config files. It provides options to start/stop, browse and edit Conky themes installed on the system. … Read more
The Budgie Desktop is one of the latest and modern Gnome-based desktop that gives a minimal and elegant desktop experience and is available for all major Linux distributions. It is designed in such a way that it utilizes fewer system resources. Budgie desktop has a straight forward app launcher that is known as Budgie menu … Read more
When you want to search and play YouTube videos, every time you will need to open a web browser, open YouTube website then search for videos. What if you have the option to search and play YouTube videos without the hassle of using a web browser? Gnome Shell includes a YouTube Search Provider extension that … Read more
In the quest of finding a desktop client for Instagram for Ubuntu, I tried installing many applications on my system. Most do not work, and a few would only let me watch my Instagram account and not let me upload photos. Ramme, an unofficial desktop client for Instagram, available on Github, finally offered all the … Read more
There are several methods to create documents in Ubuntu both using GUI and command line. All these methods are really simple and easy to use. You may have used these methods earlier in Ubuntu for some other purposes. However, in this article, we will show you 8 different ways to create documents in Ubuntu. For … Read more
When you want to install Winamp on your Ubuntu and look up for the procedure on the Internet, most websites will suggest installing Qmmp. While Qmmp is a great choice and a feature-rich audio player that supports many formats, you will still miss many features that always made Winamp your first choice. When Linux was … Read more
Mozilla Firefox has added support for client-side decorations feature often abbreviated as CSD in their release of Firefox 60. Users can use client-side decorations to make better use of screen space. It combines the Firefox main toolbar with the title bar that fits more on the screen. Users of Mozilla Firefox 60 can enable the … Read more
If you are looking for something that works in Linux as good as Winamp works in Windows, Qmmp is a great choice. Qmmp is a feature-rich audio player with support for many file formats. It is written in Qt and C++ and gives you the same look and feel of Winamp so that you don’t … Read more
Until now, Deepin possesses the sleekest desktop environment. It is probably one of the most beautiful and best user-friendly desktop Linux distribution. When we talk about visual appeals, I would not be wrong in saying that it has blown away the Windows 10 and MacOS. Deepin is an elegant and easy to use desktop environment … Read more