If you are using your system’s built-in microphone or an external one, it is very important to test if your voice is getting through to your system. Only when your system is reading your microphone sound as an input, it
When you have to take a break from work but do not want to end your current session, locking your computer screen is the way out. You can, of course, shut down your system and start it again when you
Wallpapers are one of the ways we can customize the look and feel of an operating system according to our aesthetic needs. There are even options when you can choose to use dynamic wallpapers that change automatically throughout the day;
Your Ubuntu Dock is a useful tool for accessing common applications and also the ones you add to it as Favorites. The default behavior of the icons in the dock ‘on click’ is: The respective application opens if it is
If you are one of those Ubuntu users who frequently use the external USB mouse with your laptop, you might want to disable the touchpad while using the mouse. Most users’ reason for doing so is to avoid accidental touches
Whenever you want to install a software package to your Ubuntu system, you first refer to the official Ubuntu repository listed in your system’s sources.list file. If the software is not available there, you can install it through any PPA
PDF or Portable Document Format is mostly our first choice when it comes to printing, sharing and emailing documents, especially the larger ones. For Windows and MacOS, you might be very much familiar, and also dependent, on the widely used
What is Edge Scrolling? While working on your laptop, there is an option to scroll up and down b using the extreme right edge of your touchpad. This is exactly how you would use the middle wheel of your mouse.
We all know how important it is to use strong passwords for our systems, online accounts, and other sensitive applications. The real deal is how to generate a password that you can rely on and the one that follows the
When Linux was originally made public, it lacked many useful applications that the major competitor -Microsoft Windows was successfully supporting. Linux thus created a compatibility layer which was used to run the Windows application on Linux itself called Wine. PlayOnLinux